Today in 1989 Sepultura released the album Beneath the Remains Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais,Brazil Death/Thrash Metal (early), Groove/Hardcore (later) Status:Active Years active: 1984-present Sepultura is a Brazilian thrash metal band, formed in 1983. Their name means grave in Portuguese, which they chose after Max Cavalera, one of the founding members, was translating the lyrics of the Motörhead song Dancing on Your Grave. Sepultura was formed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in 1983 by Max Cavalera (guitars and vocals), his younger brother Igor Cavalera (drums), Paulo Pinto (bass) and Jairo Guedes (guitars). Sepultura signed to Cogumelo Records after a few years of performing, with a sound influenced by their favorite bands such as Ratos de Porão, Discharge, Possessed, GBH and Metallica. Their first EP was Bestial Devastation, a split with Overdoses album on the flipside. Their first LP was Morbid Visions (1986), which included the moderate hit Troops of Doom that attracted the band some attention. After Morbid Visions, Jairo Guedes left the band for another death metal venture and Sao Paulo based guitarist Andreas Kisser replaced him. Their second full-length album was Schizophrenia, which was a critical success that led to a contract with Roadrunner Records. With Roadrunner distributing Schizophrenia worldwide, Sepultura reached new audiences of metal fans, cemented by 1989s Beneath the Remains (1989), which was followed by a long European tour. By the time they released 1991s Arise (1991), Sepultura were located in Phoenix, Arizona and had become one of the most critically-praised metal bands of the 1990s, with Arise going platinum by the end of its supporting tour. Musically, Arise was slightly different from the first three Sepultura albums. Slowing down and also experimenting with some groove-laden rhythms. In 1993, Sepultura made the groove hints on Arise to a considerable change in their sound. Changing their original death/thrash style to a more hardcore inspired groove metal sound with Chaos A.D.. 1996s Roots took Sepultura even further from their original sound, shocking fans with a nu metal sound similar to that of popular American bands, adopting nu metal characteristics such as downtuning, using murky chords as the base for songs instead of the typical chugging heavy metal riffs, hard vocal rhyming bordering on rapping and the absence of guitar solos. The band further innovated by experimenting with elements from the music of Brazils indigenous peoples and metal music. At the height of Sepulturas fame, however, a series of events broke the band apart. Just after the album Roots (1996), Sepultura decided to fire their manager, Gloria. Since she was Maxs wife, he decided to quit too. It was rumoured that there was some intra-band tension throughout the latter half of 1996, and at the end of a successful tour of Britain later that year, at Brixton Academy on 16th December 1996, the band told Max they would not renew Glorias management contract. Max Cavalera left the band, and subsequently formed a new band, Soulfly. The others announced that they would continue under the Sepultura name and were searching for a replacement. A recording of Maxs last show with the band was later released as a live album, 2002s Under a Pale Grey Sky by their former record label Roadrunner Records, against the wishes of the band. Derrick Green from Cleveland and formerly of Outface wound up filling the frontman spot, and the band released Against in 1998. Against was commercially less successful than its two predecessors, as was the follow-up Nation. These releases saw Sepultura move away from their previous approach of the thrash metal sound - a process already in motion in such releases as Roots, and aided by Maxs departure - and this led to widespread criticism from the bands original fanbase. Subsequent releases have had a positive effect in returning praise to the band, but opinion is divided on their new direction. After recording Revolusongs, an EP full of covers in 2002, the band released the album Roorback in 2003, which garnered a lot of positive reviews. In November 2005 the live Double-DVD and Double-CD Live in São Paulo was released. This was the first official live album from the band. The release of Live In Sao Paulo marked the first involvement of the new Sepularmy street team in promotion of the bands music. The Sepularmy is unrelated to the bands record label SPV and its members are motivated purely by the desire to share the bands music with as many people as possible. The army is expected to be involved in the promotion of all the bands releases and endeavours for the foreseeable future and anyone is welcome to register and help out. A new album, called Dante XXI was released on March 14, 2006. It based around Dantes The Divine Comedy. This album has been considered to be the bands best effort with Derrick Green and also carries some thrash influence. Although some areas of the media have criticized the album, fans have received it well. In a recent interview, Igor stated that the band agreed to retire the Sepultura name at the conclusion of the bands current tour, but bassist Paulo Jr. has denied this report. In 2007 Max and Igor formed a new band called Cavalera Conspiracy. In January 2009, Sepultura released A-Lex, being the first album without any Cavalera member. It is a new concept album based on the book A Clockwork Orange. Roadrunner Records Max Cavalera - vocals, rhythm guitar, mixing Igor Cavalera - drums, percussion Paulo Jr. - bass guitar Andreas Kisser - lead guitar Guest/Session Henrique Synth Kelly Shaefer (Atheist) - Background vocals on Stronger Than Hate John Tardy (Obituary) - Background vocals on Stronger Than Hate Scott Latour - Background vocals on Stronger Than Hate Francis Howard - Background vocals on Stronger Than Hate 1. Beneath the Remains (5:13) 2. Inner Self (5:09) 3. Stronger Than Hate (5:51) 4. Mass Hypnosis (4:25) 5. Sarcastic Existence (4:45) 6. Slaves of Pain (4:03) 7. Lobotomy (4:58) 8. Hungry (4:29) 9. Primitive Future (3:09) Recorded at Nas Nuvens Studio, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 15 - 28 December 1988. Co-produced by Sepultura. Mixed at Morrisound Recording, Tampa, FL. Mastered at Fullersound, Miami, FL. All songs written by Sepultura. All lyrics written by Max Cavalera and Andreas Kisser except Stronger Than Hate by Kelly Shaefer. Slaves of Pain is a cover (with different lyrics) of Andreas Kissers former band Pestilence. A video was made for Inner Self. Japanese edition was released with a bonus track: 10. Special Message for Japanese Fans The 1997 remastered version contains bonus tracks: 10. A Hora E A Vez Do Cabelo Nascer (Mutantes cover) (02:21) 11. Inner Self (Drum Track) (05:10) 12. Mass Hypnosis (Drum Track) (04:22) Reissued in Germany, 2007 by Roadrunner Records / Cargo Records as a limited edition red vinyl with the same bonus tracks as 97 version. Andreas Kisser also recorded studio bass parts for the album. Beneath the Remains is the third studio album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, released in 1989. It was their first release through Roadrunner Records Beneath the Remains had improved production and songwriting compared to the bands previous albums. In time it would be acclaimed as a classic in the thrash metal genre. According to vocalist Max Cavalera, Sepultura had really found [their] style on that album. This was their first album to feature a Michael Whelan cover art - in this case, Nightmare in Red Max Cavalera travelled to New York in February 1988 and spent a whole week negotiating with the Roadrunner label. Although they offered a 7-record deal to Sepultura, the label was unsure of the bands sale potential. The albums budget was a small amount by the labels standards ($8,000), but in the end the cost was almost twice its original budget. Scott Burns, who had previously engineered records by Florida extreme metal acts Obituary, Death and Morbid Angel, was the chosen producer. Burns agreed to work for a low fee ($2,000) because he was curious about Brazil. Sepultura spent the last half of December 1988 recording the album at Nas Nuvens Studio in Rio de Janeiro, from 8 pm to 5 am. youtube/watch?v=Od4r6fDtro4
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