Sepultura

Sepultura
Sepultura at the Reload Festival 2018
General information
Genre (s)	Thrash metal , death metal , groove metal
founding	1984
Website	www.sepultura.com.br
Founding members
Vocals , electric guitar	Max Cavalera (until 1996)
Electric guitar	Wagner Lamounier (until 1984)
Electric bass	Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr.
Drums	Igor Cavalera (until 2006)
Current occupation
singing	Derrick Leon Green (since 1998)
Electric guitar, vocals	Andreas Kisser (since 1987)
Electric bass	Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr.
Drums	Eloy Casagrande (since 2011)
former members
Electric guitar	Jairo "T." Guedz (1984–1986)
Drums	Jean Dolabella (2006-2011)
Live support
Drums	Roy Mayorga (European tour: 2006)

Sepultura ( Portuguese: 'Grab') is a metal band from Belo Horizonte ( Brazil ) founded in 1984 . On their band name the members met in translating the Motorhead -title Dancing on Your Grave ( English to. Thy grave dancing ').

history

Max Cavalera with Anton Reisenegger from Pentagram

Foundation and first successes

Sepultura live at Wacken Open Air 2018

The only remaining founding member: Xisto Pinto Jr. at Nova Rock 2014

The band was formed in 1984; the original guitarist Wagner Lamounier left the band that same year and then founded Sarcófago . In 1985 the split LP Século XX / Bestial Devastation with the band Overdose was released via Cogumelo Records , at that time Sepultura consisted of Igor and Max Cavalera , Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. and Jairo Guedez. In the following year, the album Morbid Visions was released with the same line-up . Then Jairo Guedez left the band and was replaced by Andreas Kisser; Guedez later founded Eminence .

With the new guitarist came a change in the music, it became more technically demanding. In 1987 the first album in the new line-up, Schizophrenia , was released. This album was first sold in Europe. Two years later, the album Beneath the Remains followed . With this disc Sepultura went on their first international tour. The fourth album, Arise , was released in 1991, produced by Scott Burns at Morrisound Studios in Florida. Chaos AD followed in 1993. With these publications, major successes could be celebrated for the first time. B. for the video for Territory the MTV Video Music Award.

New front man

In 1996 Sepultura released the album Roots . In the same year the band separated from their singer Max Cavalera, which caused a sensation with the fans, as Cavalera was known in the whole metal scene as a charismatic front man. The reason for the separation was a dispute: The contract of the band manager Gloria Cavalera expired. Max, husband of Gloria, did not want to accept that his band colleagues did not want to extend and finally left the band. At first it was said that Gloria interfered too much in the interests of the band and was therefore unpopular. Singer Max Cavalera, however, later named the reason that the wives of his band colleagues had destroyed the band with their pathological jealousy of Gloria and Max. In an interview with Metal Hammer in January 2007, however, he stated that Gloria's son Dana had died during the Roots tour and that Andreas Kisser's wife tried to handle the funeral before his parents returned home. Max Cavalera has not spoken a word to Kisser since then and has been waiting for an apology from Kisser ever since. Max Cavalera then founded the band Soulfly .

Green at the 2007 Metalmania Festival

After considerations to make Andreas the singer of Sepultura were rejected, the American Derrick Leon Green was invited because of his demo tape. He became the band's new vocalist because he fit the band both musically and personally. The first concert with the new singer took place as part of the charity event Barulho contra Fome (in German: 'noise against hunger'). In 1998 the first album with Green was released, Against . After the band said they had played themselves freely with this album, they released Nation , the first jointly written album , in 2001 . In addition to the angry screaming usual for Sepultura, the album also surprised its fans with clear vocals. Another special feature is the guest appearance by Apocalyptica .

In the 2000s

After numerous appearances, including at the Rock in Rio 3 festival in front of 150,000 people, the album Roorback and the EP Revolusongs followed in 2003 , on which Sepultura covered songs by other bands, some of which came from very different musical genres (including Public Enemy , Exodus , U2 , ...). In 2005 the DVD Live was released in Sao Paulo , on which you can find a documentation by Derrick in addition to the concert. The live CD was also released at the same time.

In the same year, the recordings for the album Dante XXI began , which was released on March 17, 2006 and is a setting of Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy . Just in time for the release of the new album, Sepultura went on an extensive European tour with In Flames . Igor Cavalera was represented on the tour by Roy Mayorga , who also played for Soulfly. Igor took some time off given the birth of his fourth child. On June 13, 2006, Igor Cavalera's departure from the band was surprisingly announced; the drummer had strayed too far from the band in his musical visions. Sepultura introduced their new drummer Jean Dolabella on July 21, 2006 at their performance at the Vilar De Mouros Festival in Portugal. In January 2008 a new music video was released for the title Ostia from the album Dante XXI .

In early 2008, the band went to the studio to record their new album, which was released on January 23, 2009. Like Dante XXI, the album is a concept album and essentially revolves around Alex, the main character in the book Uhrwerk Orange and its film adaptation . That is why they decided on the ambiguous album title A-Lex , because the term stands for 'lawless', which also captures the subject. Singer Green was now also a member of the band Musica Diablo .

New label

In July 2010 it was announced that Sepultura had signed a record deal with Nuclear Blast . A new album was announced by the label for 2011 and was released with the title Kairos in June of the same year.

In October 2013 the thirteenth studio album was released, entitled The Mediator Between the Head and Hands Must Be the Heart, and on January 13, 2017, the fourteenth called Machine Messiah . With the latter, they went on tour as the opening act for Kreator in spring 2017. With the following album Quadra , which was released in February 2020, they were able to achieve the highest chart positions in Germany and Switzerland and thus even surpass the success of Roots .

style

Old tape logo which to Schizophrenia was used

On Morbid Visions and Século XX / Bestial Devastation , Sepultura played raw, primitive and aggressive metal, referred to as both death metal and black-metal- influenced thrash metal , which only supporters of releases like Sodom's In the Sign of Evil and Kreators Can address endless pain . After Andreas Kisser joined the company, the thrash metal influences increased significantly. Schizophrenia , Beneath the Remains and Arise can be described as Thrash Metal. From the successor Chaos AD , and especially on the last album with Max Cavalera on vocals, Roots , the thrash metal influences decreased more and more and gave way to hardcore punk , alternative metal and some world music (especially in Reference to the percussion in Igor Cavalera's drumming, the cooperation with the Xavantes tribe [ Itsári on Roots ] or the inclusion of a completely acoustic tribal piece ( Kaiowas on Chaos AD )) influenced the version of their style. After Derrick Green joined the band, the alternative, punk and hardcore influences moved more into the foreground, but the tribal, percussion and world music elements did not suffer either, which can be heard especially on the Against and Nation albums . Since then, in addition to the typical screaming song, the albums also contain passages clearly sung by Derrick Green for the first time. A special feature is the collaboration with the Taiko drum group Kodo in the piece Kamaitachi on the Against album, where ex- Metallica bassist Jason Newsted and Ratos de Porão singer João Gordo can also be heard. Also on the following There are numerous guest musicians on albums. After the pure cover EP Revulsongs from 2002, the elements of the previous albums were mixed more strongly with Thrash Metal and the 2003 album Roorback picked up speed. This development was not only maintained and continued on the follow-up album Dante XXI , but also enriched by the accompaniment of an orchestra with classical music. The album A-Lex from 2009 is a mixture of raw Thrash, Punk and Hardcore, the tribal and world music elements have almost completely disappeared, synthesizers are used for the first time and it can be found in Ludwig Van , a variation of joy nicer Götterfunken , also a classical orchestra again. Groove Metal elements are increasingly finding their way back to Kairos. Sepultura's texts are often directed against the policies of the Brazilian government and call for resistance ( e.g. Refuse / Resist ).

• Sepultura at the Free & Easy Festival 2015
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  Andreas Kisser

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  Derrick Leon Green

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  Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr.

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  Eloy Casagrande

Discography

→ Main article : Sepultura / discography

Studio albums

Gloria Cavalera, former manager of Sepultura (2019)

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1986	Morbid Visions Cogumelo Records	-	-	-	-	-	First published: November 10, 1986
1987	Schizophrenia Cogumelo Records	-	-	-	-	-	First published: October 30, 1987
1989	Beneath the Remains Roadrunner Records	DE96 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: April 7, 1989 Chart entry in DE only in 2020
1991	Arise Roadrunner Records	DE25 (14 weeks) DE	-	CH24 (4 weeks) CH	UK40 silver (2 weeks)UK	US119 (4 weeks) US	First published: March 20, 1991
1993	Chaos AD Roadrunner Records	DE11 (10 weeks) DE	AT19 (16 weeks) AT	CH15 (7 weeks) CH	UK11 gold (5 weeks)UK	US32 gold (7 weeks)US	First published: September 2, 1993
1996	Roots Roadrunner Records	DE7 (20 weeks) DE	AT2 gold (16 weeks)AT	CH16 (8 weeks) CH	UK4th gold (6 weeks)UK	US27 gold (10 weeks)US	First published: February 20, 1996
1998	Against Roadrunner Records	DE23 (4 weeks) DE	AT23 (4 weeks) AT	-	UK40 (2 weeks) UK	US82 (3 weeks) US	First published: October 6, 1998
2001	Nation Roadrunner Records	DE28 (5 weeks) DE	AT41 (4 weeks) AT	CH84 (1 week) CH	UK88 (1 week) UK	US134 (1 week) US	First published: March 20, 2001
2003	Roorback SPV	DE46 (3 weeks) DE	-	CH69 (2 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: May 26, 2003
2006	Dante XXI SPV	DE64 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: March 2, 2006
2009	A-Lex SPV	DE82 (1 week) DE	AT53 (1 week) AT	CH68 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: January 23, 2009
2011	Kairo's Nuclear Blast	DE49 (1 week) DE	AT75 (1 week) AT	CH45 (2 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: June 24, 2011
2013	The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart Nuclear Blast	DE76 (1 week) DE	-	CH96 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: October 25, 2013
2017	Machine Messiah Nuclear Blast	DE27 (2 weeks) DE	AT33 (1 week) AT	CH27 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: January 13, 2017
2020	Quadra Nuclear Blast	DE5 (2 weeks) DE	AT17 (1 week) AT	CH13 (3 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: February 7, 2020

literature

• Keith Harris: "Roots"? The Relationship between the Global and the Local within the Extreme Metal Scene . In: Popular Music , Vol. 19 (2000), Issue 1, pp. 13-30, ISSN  0261-1430 .

Web links

Commons : Sepultura  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (English and Portuguese)
• Sepultura at Discogs (English)
• Sepultura on MusicBrainz (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Newssquared.de: Sepultura announce new drummer. Retrieved May 11, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Marcel Anders: Soulfly: Spiritual gross motor skills ( Memento from March 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). In: Guitar & Bass , 07/1998.
3. ↑ Sepultura's Kisser: Max Cavalera Is Trying Too Hard To Reproduce 'Roots' , July 4, 2006, accessed on July 12, 2013.
4. ↑ Katharina Beck: Sepultura - Signing with Nuclear Blast ( memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), July 6, 2010, accessed on July 12, 2013.
5. ↑ SEPULTURA Completes Recording New Album , July 10, 2013, accessed on July 12, 2013.
6. ↑ SEPULTURA: New Album Title Announced , July 19, 2013, accessed on July 20, 2013.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Spiritech: Sepultura - Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation ( memento of November 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 1, 2013.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Loga: Sepultura - Morbid Visions / Bestial Devastation , February 27, 2009, accessed on July 12, 2013.
9. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US