There are at least two bands using the name Necrophagia:
1) A death meta… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least two bands using the name Necrophagia:
1) A death metal band from Ohio
2) A thrash band from Los Angeles

1) Necrophagia is an american death metal band assembled in Wellsville, Ohio in 1983. They were one of the first death metal bands and were a popular group in the underground "tape trading" scene of the early-to-mid-1980s.

Featuring hard-driving metal and growling vocals, Necrophagia became a pioneer in the fledgling extreme metal genre. Their first full-length album, Season of the Dead, was recorded and released in 1987.

The band then split up due to musical differences, and lay dormant until 1997 when frontman Killjoy reformed the band with then Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo (under the pseudonym Anton Crowley) on guitars, Wayne Fabra on drums and Dustin Havnen on bass. This lineup released the album Holocausto de la Morte and the EP Black Blood Vomitorium. Havnen was then replaced by Jared Faulk, with Gorelord mainman Frediablo also joining as a second guitarist and Opal Enthroned (then Anselmo's wife) joining the band on keyboards. This line up released the Cannibal Holocaust EP in 2001 before splitting up leaving Killjoy & Frediablo as the only members for a short time.

In 2002 Killjoy announced the new Necrophagia line-up. Joining him and Frediablo would be Frediablos brother Fug on guitar, Iscariah (formerly of Immortal) on bass, Titta Tanni on drums and Mirai Kawashima of Japanese avant-garde black metal band Sigh on keyboards. This proved to be the most productive time for Necrophagia, with all members concentrating on the band rather than treating it as a side project. They released the albums The Divine Art of Torture and Harvest Ritual Vol. 1, as well as the Goblins Be Thine EP.

On June 6, 2006 Necrophagia released Slit Wrists And Casket Rot, a live album from their "Harvesting the Dead" tour.

On 22 December 2007 Necrophagia announced that Death Trip 69, will be released before Summer 2008, followed by a major tour, but the release of the album has been delayed. The exact release date is yet unknown but according to the band it will be out in 2010. Death Trip 69 will feature several guest appearances, including lead guitar parts by Mick Thomson from Slipknot. Opal Enthroned rejoined the band on 5 March 2008. Recently, Boris Randall has been announced as the new guitarist for the band. He will be a part of Deathtrip 69, scheduled to be released on October 31st, current year. Some of the song titles have been revealed, and they are as it follows:

"Suffering Comes in Sixes" "Reborn Through Blackmass" "Celluliod Screams" "Bleeding Eyes of the Eternally Damned"

2) Necrophagia was a death/thrash band from the LA area in the mid/late 80s. They released at least one demo, and one EP on Wild Rags before calling it a day. The band Nekroholocaust is a direct continuation of Necrophagia, with the same members, and even some of the same songs rearranged and played in a slightly more aggressive style. Nekroholocaust's In Memories of Fire was recorded in 1988 as a Necrophagia release, but due to internal disagreements never saw the light of day until 2005 when it was released using the new name by former Necrophagia member Jerry Battle.

Reincarnation
Necrophagia Lyrics

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Once parted body and soul
Believed to be the final stage
Man's arrogant perception of the grave
Mausoleum sanctuary of lies
Portal back to the dimension of life
Deceased souls of a wretched past
Far worse than heaven has cast
Rotting dead now brought to life

Supernatural evolution
Creating a new form of man

Power of illusion
Emulate flesh and life
Transcend from their rest
Hunger of the dead pulsates in their blood

Rebirth of the damned
Abhorence of mankind
Raping the law of nature
Break the threshold of time

Resurrected walk amoung the unsuspecting
Growing in vast number
Until the dead outnumber the living

Complete the final seige
Ravage and take absolute control

Overall Meaning

The song "Reincarnation" by Necrophagia is a meditation on the idea that death is not necessarily the end of life. The opening lines, "Once parted body and soul / Believed to be the final stage," suggest that humans have long thought of death as the end of life, an eternal separation of the physical body from the immaterial soul. However, the song challenges this idea with its portrayal of a mausoleum as a "sanctuary of lies" and "portal back to the dimension of life." For Necrophagia, death is merely a transition from one form of existence to another, and the dead are not necessarily at peace.

The resurrected dead are presented as something far worse than the traditional Christian conception of hell: "Deceased souls of a wretched past / Far worse than heaven has cast." There is a deliberate inversion of the usual order of things in this song, with the "power of illusion" enabling the dead to "emulate flesh and life" and to "break the threshold of time." In this way, they are able to achieve a kind of supernatural evolution and create a "new form of man."

Overall, the song suggests that humans cannot control death and that our attempts to do so are arrogant at best. Death seems to have a power of its own, and the implications of the song's apocalyptic ending are that the dead will eventually overwhelm and absorb the living, completing a final siege and taking "absolute control."

Line by Line Meaning

Once parted body and soul
When the physical body and the soul separate

Believed to be the final stage
Assumed to be the end of everything

Man's arrogant perception of the grave
Human's egotistical view of death

Mausoleum sanctuary of lies
A container for a dead body that gives false hope

Portal back to the dimension of life
An entrance that leads to the world of the living

Deceased souls of a wretched past
Spirits of people with a miserable history who are no longer alive

Far worse than heaven has cast
Worse than how heaven had forsaken them

Rotting dead now brought to life
Dead beings who decomposed are now animated

Supernatural evolution
A process of a non-natural progression

Creating a new form of man
Making a human like creature that is not from human evolution

Power of illusion
The strength of deceiving perception