on 2007, lead vocalist of the band.
Origin and Formation The band has its origins in contacts made between Fernando Vial,
Jorge Madueño and Alvaro Carrillo, when the latter two answered an ad placed in
Segunda Mano ("Second Hand") magazine by Vial in late 1983. Carrillo later brought along a friend, Luis Piccini, who had a drum set. The band underwent several name changes. Initially, they were known as "Sociedad Anónima (S.A.)," (Anonymous Society), then "Los Descartados"(The Disposables or The Discarded), and later "Los Descartables" (The Thrown-Away or The Disposables). Madueño soon took over as drummer, as Piccini was too often unavailable for practice as he had a girlfriend. The band then settled on the name
Narcosis, which Vial said was taken from the novel
Siddhartha by
Hermann Hesse: "It's simply a matter of fleeing from the self. It's a brief escape from being self, a brief narcosis against the pain and absurdity of life." "The parallel movement of 'Underground Rock' was happening at that time in Lima and was made up of Punk and Hardcore bands that overlapped these Post-Punk groups." Narcosis' first gig was played at the Carnaby bar, where they filled the bill alongside now-classic Lima rock bands
LeuZemia and
Masacre, on October 6, 1984. Not long after that, the band was booked for another gig, this time at the Palizada Pub, but found itself short of a vocalist as Carrillo had left the group. Vial has said that Carrillo left the band due "reasons of fate", but elsewhere it has been suggested that part of the reason was that he and Carrillo had had difficulties. One of Narcosis' most notorious appearances took place on 17 February 1985, at the Rock en Rio Rímac festival in Lima's
Rímac district. There, Narcosis played before a crowd of 5,000, alongside a number of other bands representing Lima's emerging "underground" scene. There was also a heavy police presence, and when Narcosis launched into their song "Sucio Policía" (Filthy Cop), the festival came to an abrupt end as the police showed their displeasure by firing into the air and rushing the stage. and an appearance at Lima's "Onuba" dance club, for a series of retrospective 25th anniversary concerts in multiple Peruvian cities in 2011, coinciding with the release of a
vinyl edition of
Primera Dosis, and for a single show in mid-2013, ==Members==