Arise
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Arise is the fourth studio album by the Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura . It was released on March 25, 1991 via Roadrunner Records . Arise is considered by fans and critics to be one of the best albums of the genre and the best album by the band. It has sold over a million times worldwide. Arise is one of the 1001 albums You Must Hear Before You Die .
Emergence
For the first time Sepultura recorded an album outside of their home country. In August 1990, the band flew to Florida to prepare for the recordings in Morbid Angel's rehearsal room , which were held at the Morrisound studio in Tampa . From their record company Roadrunner Records, the band received a budget of 40,000 dollars . This allowed the band to work longer on the album. For example, producer Scott Burns and Igor Cavalera had spent a week trying to find the right drum sound.
In January 1991, the band stopped recording and performed at the Rock-in-Rio Festival at Maracanã Stadium . On the occasion of the performance, a pre-release version of the album was released under the name Arise Rough Mixes . Sepultura played as the first band of the day. On the last day of admission, the band played with Orgasmatron a Motörhead - cover one. Singer and guitarist Max Cavalera remembered that he drank a bottle of rum on his own that day and was accordingly drunk. He couldn't remember how he recorded the vocals anyway.
The recorded song For Our Own God was not used for the album as the band felt that 52 minutes of playing time was too much. Mixed was Arise from Andy Wallace , who had previously been with bands like Slayer and Nirvana worked.
To mark the release of the album, the band played a free concert at Praça Charles Miller in São Paulo . Over 30,000 fans and onlookers saw the concert, in which a fan was killed.
“I suspect rival gangs were involved because the boy was cruelly killed with an ax . The blame was put on us and our music. We were just starting to get famous, but the mass media took advantage of the misfortune to bring us down. "
For the songs Dead Embryonic Cells and Arise were music videos rotated. While Dead Embryonic Cells of MTV was added to the rotation, which was Arise -Video banned from the program due to its apocalyptic religious content from MTV.
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The theme song Arise is an anti-war song and was inspired by the Gulf War . Dead Embryonic Cells takes the idea that newborn children are dead before they can take their lives into their own hands. Desperate Cry describes the feelings of a dying person, or a person who knows they will die in the near future. In Murder is about the state of the Brazilian society of crime , drugs , racism and a corrupt police was coined. Altered State and Meaningless Movements deal with psychoses such as schizophrenia . Under Siege (Regnum Irae) ( Latin: rule of anger ) deals with religious conflicts. Max Cavalera took inspiration for the text from the film The Last Temptation of Christ . In Infected Voice deals with the fears of an adolescent.
Musically, Arise showed that the band opened up to non-metallic influences. During the recording, the band members listened to music from bands such as The Young Gods , Ministry or the Einstürzende Neubauten . Sepultura also used samples and sound effects that are reminiscent of industrial for the first time . South American percussion was heard for the first time at Altered State .
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Arise took the sound check of the German magazine Rock Hard with an average grade of 9.08 second behind Victims of Deception by Heathen . Holger Stratmann described Arise as "an upcoming Thrash classic that can be measured against the highlights of Slayer " and awarded 9.5 out of 10 points. Arise was the first Sepultura album that made it into the US album charts . It reached number 119. For over 25,000 albums sold in Indonesia , the album received a gold record in 1992 .
In 2005, the readers of the German Metal Hammer voted their 100 best metal albums of all time. Arise came in 60th. According to Robert Müller, Arise made Sepultura “from a ridiculed Death Metal gang from distant Brazil suddenly into the hottest number on planet Metal”. In the book Best of Rock & Metal by the German rock-hard magazine, which lists the 500 strongest metal and hard-rock albums of all time, according to the rock-hard editors, Arise came in 25th; the best ranking of an album by a South American band. After Uwe “Buffo” Schnädelbach, Arise and its predecessor Beneath the Remains were the albums to which Sepultura “owes its reputation as a Thrash Metal institution”.
Republication
In 1997 the album was remastered and re-released . In addition to the nine songs of the original version, the re-release contains the Motörhead cover version Orgasmatron as well as the original compositions Intro , CIU (Criminals in Uniform) and Desperate Cry in the Scott Burns mix.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Conny Schiffbauer: Thrashin 'Brazil . In: Rock Hard , March 2008, page 72ff.
- ↑ allmusic.com: Sepultura biography
- ↑ a b c Barcinski, André & Gomes, Silvio: Sepultura: Toda a História . Ed. 34, São Paulo 1999, ISBN 85-7326-156-0 , pp. 86-115 .
- ↑ a b Armageddon in Brazil . In: Rock Hard , Feb 1991, p. 62.
- ↑ allmusic.com: Arise> Overview
- ↑ a b Sources chart placements: DE CH UK US
- ↑ rockhard.de: Sepultura - Arise
- Jump up ↑ The 100 Best Metal Albums of All Time - Part 2 . In: Metal Hammer , May 2005, page 52.
- ↑ Rock Hard (Ed.): Best of Rock & Metal - The 500 strongest discs of all time . Heel Verlag , Königswinter 2005, ISBN 3-89880-517-4 , p. 216 .
- ↑ musicbrainz.org: Release: Arise
- ↑ discogs.com: Sepultura - Arise (CD, Album, RM)