Not the Ohio band that released Season of the Dead the same year; this NECROPHAGIA were from California and released It Began with a Twisted Dream - a brutal thrashing demo - on this day in 1987.
NECROPHAGIA were one of the earliest signing to Wild Rags Records, their self-titled EP, part of Wild Rags' Hardcore Demo Series, is WRR001.
Formed in the mid 80s by Eddie Santiago and Jerry Battle, they are joined by session drummer Piercy for this demo. Both Eddie and Jerry formed NEKROHOLOCAUST in 1987. More recently Eddie formed NEKROSEIZURE and released Death of the Ball Turret Gunner in 2019.
Jerry runs the Mercenary Musik label (LUNAR AURORA, CARPATHIAN FOREST, ABORYM) and formed the black metal / ambient project BATTLE DAGORATH in 2002.