Yesterday in 1987 Sepultura released the album Schizophrenia 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. Cogumelo Records Max Cavalera - vocals, rhythm guitar Igor Cavalera - drums, percussion Paulo Jr. - bass guitar Andreas Kisser - lead guitar Henrique - synthesizers Paulo Gordo - violins 1. Intro (0:32) 2. From the Past Comes the Storms (4:56) 3. To the Wall (5:38) 4. Escape to the Void (4:41) 5. Inquisition Symphony (7:15) 6. Screams Behind the Shadows (4:50) 7. Septic Schizo (4:33) 8. The Abyss (1:02) 9. R.I.P. (Rest in Pain) (4:38) The intro is recorded backwards: Max screams the word Schizophrenia. Recorded on 16 track at J.G. Estudios, Belo Horizonte, August 1987. Photos by Fabiana. Produced by Cogumelo Records. Re-released in 1990 by Roadrunner/Roadracer with one bonus track. Re-mastered August 1990 by Mike Fuller at Fullersound, Miami, Florida. Bonus track recorded August 26-27, 1990 on 16 tracks at J.G. Studios, Belo Horizonte, Brasil: 10. Troops of Doom (3:19) Produced by Sepultura, recorded and engineered by Gauguim. Mixed by Scott Burns. 1997 Roadrunner remaster bonus tracks: 11. The Past Reborns the Storms (Demo version) (5:08) 12. Septic Schizo (Rough mix) (4:34) 13. To the Wall (Rough mix) (5:31) Reissued in 2010 by Cogumelo Records exclusively for Brazil in digipak with new graphic material and rare photos. Same bonus tracks as the 1997 reissue. Reissued in 2011 by Mutilation Production / Cogumelo Records in special limited edition 12 picture disc vinyl + poster with the same tracks as the 87 original pressing. On some versions of the Roadrunner re-release, the title is misspelled as Schizoprenia on the spine, omitting the H. After writing and composing 95% of the material for Schizophrenia, lead guitarist Jairo Guedz decided to leave the band before finishing it. Andreas Kisser also recorded studio bass parts for the album. Escape to the Void is a cover (with different lyrics) of Escape Into the Mirror of Andreas Kissers former band Pestilence. Schizophrenia is the second studio album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, released in 1987 through Cogumelo Records. It is the first album for the band with Andreas Kisser. The albums sound leans more towards the thrash metal genre than the previous album Morbid Visions, which is closer to death metal. All songs were recorded during August 1987, except for the bonus track Troops of Doom which was recorded during August 26–27, 1990. In America the band sent radio playlists at a time when they were struggling to book gigs because club owners were afraid to book them due to their style.[2] Roadrunner Records signed them and released Schizophrenia internationally before seeing the band perform in person Kisser states that, when he joined Sepultura in 87, he “ ...brought in some new influences - traditional heavy metal and a more melodic style. It was an immediate meeting of minds. We understood where each other was coming from musically and we knew we could find a way to put all our influences together and make the music work youtube/watch?v=NV1iE50oX-Y
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