... 'Roots' All the tracks are very heavy. (great stuff) This album is what introduced me to Sepultura and I love every bit of it. Each song gives out an incredible energy. Sepultura are obviously very talented. Just listen to this to find that one out for yourself. The Lyrics are very strong ... Read review
Advantages: Consistant greatness Disadvantages: If you don't like metal, don't buy this
Brazilian band Sepultura have brought us this great album. 'Roots' All the tracks are very heavy. (great stuff) This album is what introduced me to Sepultura and I love every bit of it. Each song gives out an incredible energy. Sepultura are obviously very talented. Just listen to this to find that one out for yourself. The Lyrics are very strong and persistant. This adds to it's greatness. I love the songs 'Cut-Throat' and 'Roots Bloody Roots'. ... more
Brazilian band Sepultura have brought us this great album. 'Roots' All the tracks are very heavy. (great stuff) This album is what introduced me to Sepultura and I love every bit of it. Each song gives out an incredible energy. Sepultura are obviously very talented. Just listen to this to find that one out for yourself. The Lyrics are very strong and persistant. This adds to it's greatness. I love the songs 'Cut-Throat' and 'Roots Bloody Roots'. But all the songs on the album are amazing in their own way. Every Sepultura fan should own this. Any first time listeners should also give it a shot. Your ears will love you for it.
Advantages: Some of their best stuff, completist value Disadvantages: The live tracks are a bit of a let down
For those of you who haven’t heard of Sepultura (yup, that’s probably most of you) they’re a Brazilian metal band. They emerged as a major name in the early 1990s on Roadrunner Records, alongside Machine Head and Fear Factory, thus pre-dating the appearance of nu-metal, though they were arguably an important influence on that genre and bridge with the ‘old school’. Their 1996 album ‘Roots’ is widely regarded as one of the seminal metal albums of the 1990s, blending Brazilian tribal influences and thrash metal to surprisingly good and varied effect.
Shortly after ‘Roots’, however, they split up. Lead singer Max Cavalera left, forming his own Brazilian metal band, the fairly similar but slightly more commercial Soulfly (who released their third album, ‘3’ in summer 2002 ...
Advantages: Best Sepultura CD Disadvantages: Nothing
There are four classic sepultura albums, those being arise, beneath the remains, roots and chaos a.d.. For the metalheads the choice is arise or beneath the remains, for the trendies who just happened to come across sepultura or heard Jonathan davis from KORN was on the record it's roots. I like the kornish work of roots and although arise and beneath the remains are great cd's chaos a.d. is my personal favorite. Some of the all time sepultura classics are on this CD, including slave new world, refuse/resist, amen, propaganda, biotech is godzilla, clench fist, territory, and nomad. Sepulutura are great on this album, the political lyrics, the deep guitar-riffs of max, the great guitars by andreas kisser, and drums of igor cavalera (Brother of Max). This is where i feel sepultura reached thier musical hight and released an all time ...
Yup, Max is here again and he's getting Primitive on our asses! Oooer. So what do you expect from a band now home to the man that gave us Sepultura's mighty 'Roots' album? Weeeell, more tribal drumming, screaming, distorto paeans to being 'real' with yourself and the rest of your 'tribe' than you can shake a rain stick at. Compared to their first offering this is a heavier and much more enjoyable beast; Mr Cavalera has produced a big, rocking monster of a record, which cuts a close second to 'Roots'. The guitars are big and dirty, the vocals are excellent and the rhythms are 100% certified groovy. The biggest problem with 'Primitive' is Max's need to get all his mates in to sing over his toons. Well, I'm glad he feels happy enough to get Corey Taylor (Slipknot) Grady Avenell (Will Haven) and Tom Araya (Slayer) to have a go, but… ...
Sepultura: Max Cavalera (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, berimbau, percussion); Andreas Kisser (acoustic & electric guitars, sitar, percussion, background vocals); Paulo Jr. (bass, timbau grande, percussion); Igor Cavalera (drums, timbau, djembe, percussion). Additional personnel: Carlinhos Brown (vocals, berimbau, timbau, wood drums, lataria, xequere, surdos); Mike Patton, Jonathan Davis (vocals); David Silvera, Ross Robinson (percussion); Xavantes tribe, DJ Lethal. Recorded at Indigo Ranch, Malibu, California and live in the "Aldeia Pimentel Barbosa," Mato Grosso, Brazil on November 5, 1995.
Album Reviews
Q (7/01, p.91) - Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone (3/21/96, p.98) - 3 Stars - Good - "...Sepultura play a violent game of sonic overload....the band uses its catharsis as a creative force, funneling torrents of noise into a tunnel of hate..." Spin (4/96, p.110) - 6 - Reasonably Good - "...takes the rain-forest chants and street drumming flavor that flickered through the firestorm of CHAOS A.D. even further....Sepultura's ethnography...[is] about sound--heavy bloco drumming and crushing guitars were made for each other..." Q (3/96, p.103) - 3 Stars - Good - "...it's constructed of ferocious throat bending and huge riffs that support their growling menace, while simultaneously doffing a cap to their ethnic ancestors..." Melody Maker (2/17/96, p.34) - "...the aural equivalent of being caught in a midfield by a PCP-fuelled defensive line from the Pittsburgh Steelers....this is [not] a mere metal barrage....There's ruthless rap attacks...the murderous electronic whining...the tribal chants and Brazilian ragga metal duets..." NME (2/24/96, p.46) - 7 (out of 10) - "...a host of strange and traditional instruments has given Sepultura new formats for their extreme displeasure..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Roots Bloody Roots
2.
Attitude
3.
Cut Throat
4.
Ratamahatta
5.
Breed Apart
6.
Straighthate
7.
Spit
8.
Lookaway
9.
Dusted
10.
Born Stubborn
11.
Jasco
12.
Itsari
13.
Ambush
14.
Endangered Species
15.
Dictatorshit
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