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8Dorso is a legendary Gore-Grindcore Metal/Jazz-Fusion band from Usefulnotes/{{Chile}}, formed in 1984 by Rodrigo “Pera” Cuadra and Yamal Eltit.
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10Their music lyrics, in Spanish/[[GratuitousEnglish Spanglish]], are based in horror movies, Creator/HPLovecraft, alien invasions and more.
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12Albums:
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14* ''Parajes de lo Desconocido'' (1985, demo)
15* ''Guerra de Criaturas'' (1987, demo)
16* ''Bajo Una Luna Cámbrica'' (1989)
17* ''Romance'' (1991)
18* ''El Espanto Surge De La Tumba'' (1993)
19* ''Big Monsters Aventura'' (1995)
20* ''Disco Blood'' (1998)
21* ''Lari La Live!'' (2002)
22* ''[[KeepCirculatingTheTapes Unplugged Cosmico]]'' (2007)
23* ''Espacium'' (2008)
24* ''[[FolkHorror Recolecciones macabras del campo chileno]]'' (2012)
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26!!Genres played by Dorso:
27* AvantGardeMusic: ''Bajo una luna cambrica''.
28* CountryMusic: ''Zombies from Mapocho'' sound like this.
29* DeathMetal
30* FolkMetal: ''Recolecciones macabras del campo chileno''.
31* {{Grindcore}}
32* IndustrialMetal: Songs like ''Cadaveria'', ''Il maniaco''.
33* ProgressiveRock: ''Romance''.
34* ThrashMetal
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36!!Dorso provides examples of:
37* AlbumTitleDrop: Various of their albums are named by one of the songs of the album, like ''El Espanto Surge De La Tumba'' and ''Disco Blood''.
38* AlienInvasion: The main theme of ''Extraterrestre Gore cannibal invasion''.
39%%* BodyHorror
40* ConceptAlbum:
41** ''Romance'' is a Fantasy Tale.
42** ''Big Monsters Aventura'' is all about old horror movies.
43** ''Espacium'' is about Space Horror.
44** ''Recolecciones macabras del campo chileno'' is about [[FolkMetal Chilean folklore]] (not just in lyrics, also in music).
45* CosmicHorrorStory: The ConceptAlbum ''Espacium'', which is about a horror story... [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]
46* CultSoundtrack: As expected, Dorso made some songs for soundtracks of Chilean horror movies like ''Angel Negro'', ''Sangre Eterna'' and ''El Huésped''.
47** SoundtrackDissonance: An exception occurs with ''Azul y Blanco'', a Chilean football/soccer version of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', in which Dorso is also part of the movie's soundtrack.
48%%* EldritchAbomination
49%%* EldritchLocation
50%%* FisherKingdom: ''Silvestre Holocaust''
51* FolkHorror: The ConceptAlbum ''Recolecciones macabras del campo chileno''.
52* GenreMashup: Dorso is a ThrashMetal band, but also combines elements from GrooveMetal, ProgressiveRock and [[AvantGardeMusic Avant-garde Metal]] and even {{Jazz}} and FolkMetal.
53* {{Gorn}}: The bread and butter of the lyrics and music videos of the band.
54* GiantSpider: The spiders in ''Consumer By Pollito Spider''.
55* GratuitousEnglish: Most of the lyrics, sometimes being made in Spanglish or enterely in English as well only the titles are in this language.
56* GratuitousLatin: Latin is mostly seen in album names, but Dorso is not unfamiliar with Latin titles or words inside their songs and albums.
57%%* HarshVocals
58* HeavyMithril: Several song are related to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
59%%* HellHotel: ''Dunwich Animal Child''
60%%* HumanSacrifice: ''Horrible Sacrifice''
61%%* HumanoidAbomination: ''Ultraputrefactus Criatura''.
62%%* LighterAndSofter: ''Romance'' compared to the rest of the albums.
63%%* MagicMeteor: ''Silvestre Holocaust''
64%%* MetalScream
65%%* MotherOfAThousandYoung: ''Bosques''
66%%* MurderBallad
67%%* NewSoundAlbum
68* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: ''Samurai We Fight!'' is about a Samurai turned in a cyborg. Also, this line from ''Dr. Mortis''
69--> "Dr. Mortis, too much bloody!
70--> Turn your body
71--> In a spiderzombiemonstervampiro from hell!"
72%%* ObligatoryBondageSong
73* OneHitWonder: For those ones who aren't acquainted with the band nor the genres they play, ''Disco Blood'' is this, mostly because the song and music video was emitted during TheNineties CultClassic TV show ''Maldita Sea''[[note]]Chilean program in which was presented most of the underground movies of the time, like {{gorn}}, {{martial arts|Movie}} and {{anime}}, with a PointOfView and NoFourthWall elements as part of the show[[/note]], being "Pera" Cuadra one of the presenters of the show.
74%%* OurMonstersAreWeird
75* OurZombiesAreDifferent[=/=]ToiletHumor: The song ''Zombies from Mapocho'' is about zombies made of crap.
76%%* PrecisionFStrike
77%%* RockOpera: Romance, again.
78%%* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein
79%%* SurprisinglyGentleSong: Parodied
80%%* ShoutOut: A Lot
81%%* UnexpectedGenreChange

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