[1] According to writer Emilio Cuesta, Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth—a musician associated with the early Norwegian black metal scene—has said Parabellum and Medellín's Reencarnación were both influential to his own band Mayhem.
[2] Parabellum were formed in Medellín, Antioquia, in early 1983, by drummer Cipriano Álvarez and guitarist Carlos Mario Pérez.
Sacrilegio was reissued in 1992, again limited to 500 copies, and a bootlegged version surfaced with an added third track ("Guerra, Monopolio, Sexo").
[3] Adam Ganderson of Terrorizer describes their music as "somewhere between hardcore and bizarrely backwards speed metal riffing ... one of those inimitable sounds that can only be generated by accident.
[3] According to Zero Tolerance magazine, "the sound that Parabellum created was one of unprecedented nihilism, evil and extremity.