Line #17 Music/Sepultura


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_sep_8376.jpg]]
2
3	Sepultura [[note]]Portuguese (and Spanish) for "grave" - the name comes from the Music/{{Motorhead}} song "Dancing On Your Grave"[[/note]] are a HeavyMetal band from [[UsefulNotes/{{Brazil}} Belo Horizonte]] that's been kicking around since 1984 and is [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff one of the few Brazilian acts that's even more popular to the north in the USA]]. They've been active in quite a few subgenres of metal but they're most famous as one of the most important GrooveMetal bands.
4
5	The band was formed in 1984 by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, who drew influences at first from popular eighties metal and rock bands like Music/IronMaiden, Music/{{Motorhead}}, Music/{{ACDC}}, Music/JudasPriest and Music/VanHalen, but later on expanded into more extreme metal acts like Music/{{Venom}}, Music/{{Metallica}}, [[Music/ExodusBand Exodus]] and Music/{{Sodom}}. After some lineup difficulties, Sepultura obtained a record contract and released their debut ''Morbid Visions'' in 1986. At this stage, their sound was closer to BlackMetal, with primitive riffs, raspy vocals, and lyrics about Satanism and the occult.
6
7	Lead guitarist Jairo Guedes lost interest in the band soon afterwards and quit, replaced by Andreas Kisser. Not only did this create Sepultura's "classic lineup", but it also changed their sound as Kisser brought in more influences apart from death metal. With ''Schizophrenia'', the band switched to a hybrid of ThrashMetal and DeathMetal that earned them critical acclaim. Also around this time they began making waves in the USA, moving to metal label Creator/RoadrunnerRecords and touring the hell out of ''Schizophrenia'' and ''Beneath the Remains''.
8
9	Recorded in the USA, their 1991 album ''Arise'' increased their popularity and showed the band's first exploration of other genres while still keeping their thrash/death sound. The real change came with ''Chaos A.D.'' two years later. On Chaos, Sepultura ditched the thrash/death fusion and instead dove headfirst into GrooveMetal, combining Igor's groove-laden rhythms with churning riffs and a [[GenreMashup genre stew]] that included IndustrialMetal, HardcorePunk and Brazilian percussion. Thanks to Andy Wallace's heavy production and several successful singles ("Refuse/Resist", "Territory", "Slave New World"), ''Chaos'' became the band's breakthrough album, earning both commercial and critical success. Their similarly-acclaimed followup ''Music/{{Roots}}'' was yet another change in sound (NuMetal this time) that also placed emphasis on Brazilian percussion (supplied by Carlinhos Brown) and featured a collaboration with members of the Brazilian Xavante Indian tribe, as well as appearances by [[Music/{{Korn}} Jonathan Davis]], [[Music/LimpBizkit DJ Lethal]], and [[Music/FaithNoMore Mike Patton]].
10
11	Max Cavalera left the band shortly after the album's release in 1996, for still unclear reasons, and instead formed his own band, Music/{{Soulfly}}. He was replaced by Derrick Green. The new Sepultura lineup predictably created some division, but the band carried on with modestly acclaimed albums. Igor himself left the band in 2006.
12
13	Max and Igor later got back together to form a new band named Cavalera Conspiracy which has caused a bicker as to which band is the real Sepultura, further confounded by the fact that Sepultura's music is almost unanimously agreed upon by fans to have improved in recent years.
14
15	On December 8, 2023, the band announced they would be calling it quits after one final tour throughout the next couple years to celebrate their 40th anniversary. In February 2024, Eloy Casagrande abruptly quit the band. He was replaced almost immediately with Music/SuicidalTendencies drummer Greyson Nekrutman.
16
17	!!Current Lineup:
18	* Paulo Jr. - bass, backing vocals (1985-present)
19	* Andreas Kisser - guitars, backing vocals (1987-present); lead vocals (1996-1998)
20	* Derrick Green - lead vocals (1997-present); additional rhythm guitar (1998-2005)
21	* Greyson Nekrutman - drums (2024-present)
22
23	!! Former Members:
24	* Igor Cavalera – drums, percussion (1984–2006)
25	* Max Cavalera – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, berimbau (1985–1997); lead guitar, backing vocals (1984–1986)
26	* Cassio – rhythm guitar (1984)
27	* Wagner Lamounier – lead vocals (1984–1985)
28	* Roberto Raffan – bass (1984-1985)
29	* Beto Pinga – drums (1984)
30	* Roberto UFO – rhythm guitar (1984)
31	* Julio Cesar Vieira Franco – lead guitar (1985-1986)
32	* Jairo Guedz – lead guitar (1985–1987)
33	* Jean Dolabella – drums, percussion (2006–2011)
34	* Eloy Casagrande – drums, percussion (2011-2024)
35
36	!! Touring Members:
37	* Silvio Golfetti – lead guitar (1991)
38	* Guilherme Martin – drums (2005)
39	* Roy Mayorga – drums, percussion (2006)
40	* Amilcar Christófaro – drums (2011)
41	* Kevin Foley – drums, percussion (2013)
42
43	!Discography:
44
45	* ''Bestial Devastation'' EP (1985) - split EP with Brazilian band Overdose.
46	* ''Morbid Visions'' (1986 - rerecorded by Cavalera Conspiracy in 2023)
47	* ''Schizophrenia'' (1987)
48	* ''Beneath the Remains'' (1989)
49	* ''Arise'' (1991)
50	* ''Chaos A.D.'' (1993)
51	* ''Music/{{Roots\|1996}}'' (1996)
52	* ''The Roots of Sepultura'' (1996) - compilation of unreleased tracks, B-sides, alternate mixes, demos and live recordings.
53	* ''Blood-Rooted'' (1997) - another compilation of more unreleased tracks, B-sides, remixes and live recordings.
54	* ''Against'' (1998) - the first album featuring Derrick Green
55	* ''Nation'' (2001)
56	* ''Revolusongs'' EP (2003) - an EP of {{Cover Version}}s.
57	* ''Roorback'' (2003)
58	* ''Dante XXI'' (2006)
59	* ''A-Lex'' (2009) - the first record not to feature either of the Cavalera brothers
60	* ''Kairos'' (2011)
61	* ''The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart'' (2013)
62	* ''Machine Messiah'' (2017)
63	* ''Quadra'' (2020) - the band's final album of original material before they announced their split
64	* ''[=SepulQuarta=]'' (2021) - collaboration album featuring rerecorded songs from all their eras and guest appearances from metal musicians of various types
65	----
66	!Under a pale grey sky, We shall tropes:
67
68	* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Eloy Casagrande is known for his extremely aggressive, hard-hitting, and physical playing style, and frequently makes use of tribal polyrhythms in his playing.
69	-->'''Youtube commenter''': He beats those drums like he caught them trying to steal his bike.
70	* BandOfRelatives: It was started by the Cavalera brothers, who have since made a few more of those (including the indicatively named Cavalera Conspiracy).
71	* TheBandMinusTheFace:
72	** Since the departure of Max Cavalera in 1996, even though Andreas seems to have supplanted Max's status as the band's face, given his appearances in music conventions all over the country.
73	** As of 2006, there are no original members left after Igor's departure. The closest thing to an original member left is bassist Paulo Jr., who is the only member to have contributed to every single album.[[note]] He performed live and wrote songs since ''Morbid Visions'', but didn't play bass on a studio recording until ''Chaos A.D.'' due to being less comfortable outside of live settings, which he states is still a difficulty for him sometimes to this day.[[/note]]
74	* TheBigGuy: Derrick is well-known for his immense size, with most sources reporting his height at around 6'4' or 6'5', making him by far the band's tallest member. This is especially noticeable in promo shoots during the time he and Igor were both in the band, in which the latter is often in front and despite the perspective still stands at a whole head shorter than Derrick.
75	* BlindIdiotTranslation: Frequent in their early material, given that they were still learning English when they first formed.
76	* ConceptAlbum: ''Dante XXI''' is based on ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', and ''A-Lex'', on ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' (though Max Cavalera stated the rest of the band [[http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=112604 did not even like it]]).
77	* CoverVersion: "Drug Me" by the Music/DeadKennedys, "Orgasmatron" by Music/{{Motorhead}}, "The Hunt" by New Model Army, "A Hora e a Vez do Cabelo Nascer" by Music/OsMutantes, "Crucificados Pelo Sistema" by Ratos de Porão, "Procreation (of the Wicked)" by Music/CelticFrost, "Inhuman Nature" by Final Conflict, "Polícia" by Titãs, "War" by Music/BobMarley, "Symptom of the Universe" by Music/BlackSabbath, "Just One Fix" by Ministry , "Firestarter" by Music/TheProdigy, and "Ultraseven No Uta".
78	** CoverAlbum: ''Revolusongs'', with covers from Music/{{Hellhammer}} ("Messiah"), Music/MassiveAttack ("Angel"), Music/PublicEnemy ("Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"), Music/{{Devo}} ("Mongoloid"), Music/JanesAddiction ("Mountain Song"), Music/{{U2}} ("Bullet the Blue Sky"), [[Music/ExodusBand Exodus]] ("Piranha") and Music/{{Metallica}} (the medley "Enter Sandman"/"Fight Fire with Fire").
79	** "Monólogo ao Pé do Ouvido" by Chico Science & Nação Zumbi and "We Gotta Know" by the Music/CroMags were also covered on the live album ''Under A Pale Grey Sky'', among others already mentioned.
80	** A notable cover of a Sepultura song is "Roots Bloody Roots" by German metal band J.B.O., where half of the lyrics are sung in operatic style by one "[[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Luciano Pabarotti]]." Both bands appeared together on stage at a festival in 2007, performing said song.
81	* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: "Troops Of Doom" from ''Morbid Visions''.
82	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Even coming from a band who changes their sound up as often as them, ''Morbid Visions'' sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the rest of their discography for a variety of reasons. The production quality is unpolished and lo-fi compared to everything after, it features a first-wave black metal sound that they never explored before or since, the lyrics are occult and Satanic themed as opposed to the social commentary and political topics they are known for, Max Cavalera's voice sounds almost nothing like it does on succeeding albums, and it is the sole full-length of theirs not to feature Andreas Kisser on guitar.
83	** For the Derrick Green era, ''Against''. The album was mostly written before Max left, and as a result is far more percussion-driven and world music influenced than anything Green would appear on afterwards. ''Nation'' and ''Roorback'' also qualify due to their prominent nu metal influences, which were almost completely abandoned in favor of a sound closer to their death/thrash and groove metal roots after, but to a much lesser degree thanks to Green directly contributing to the songwriting.
84	* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
85	** Paulo: Melancholic
86	** Andreas: Choleric
87	** Derrick: Sanguine
88	** Eloy: Phlegmatic
89	* GenreMashup: The second half of the Derrick Green era is pretty much a marriage of all their various sounds, blending thrash metal, groove metal, death metal, and nu metal together almost seamlessly.
90	* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Derrick. His signature dreads disappeared shortly after ''The Mediator'' album cycle, and he's been bald ever since.
91	* HarshVocals: For the most part, but after Derrick Green showed up, you can occasionally hear clean vocals, most prominently on ''Nation'' and to a lesser extent ''Roorback'', with them being only used on a few songs on succeeding albums.
92	* HeartbeatSoundtrack: ''Chaos'' starts with the heartbeat of Max's son.
93	* HiddenTrack: The original 1993 release of ''Chaos A.D.'' ends with an unlisted track that's two minutes of LaughingMad bloopers from the song "We Who Are Not As Others." This was not in any of the album's later reissues.
94	* IAmTheBand: Even if Paulo is the only founding member who never left, Andreas Kisser is Sepultura. It used to be the Cavalera brothers of Max and Igor, who co-founded the band. Then Max quit in 1996, which left Igor in control. Then Igor quit in 2006, so since then, Andreas has taken control and been behind much of Sepultura's songwriting and composition, as well as appearing the most in the band's press conferences.
95	* LeadDrummer:
96	** Eloy Casagrande is famous for his great technical ability and precision, wild and energetic stage presence, and his aggressive and technical playing style that makes heavy use of polyrhythms. Even modern Sepultura's detractors will almost universally agree that regardless of what they think of the band, Eloy is a fantastic drummer.
97	** Before that, Igor was both hailed as a great drummer and one of the band's faces, specially once his brother left.
98	* LoopedLyrics / SingleStanzaSong: "We Who Are Not As Others".
99	* MetalScream: Many, many examples (part of why the vocals are [[TheUnintelligible so hard to understand]]). '''WAR FOR TERRITOOOOOOOOOOORYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!'''
100	** Max and Derrick are Type 1's. Derrick would also demonstrate his ability to also do Types 2 ''and'' 3 in his short-lived side project Musica Diablo.
101	* NewSoundAlbum: Several:
102	** ''Schizophrenia'' marked a shift from first-wave BlackMetal to a [[DeathMetal Death]] / [[ThrashMetal Thrash]] sound.
103	** ''Chaos A.D.'' pushed them in the direction of GrooveMetal and AlternativeMetal.
104	** ''Music/{{Roots}}'' was similar to ''Chaos'', but added NuMetal and more prominent Brazilian influences to the mix.
105	** The first three albums with Green largely continued the overall GrooveMetal / AlternativeMetal vibes of ''Chaos'' and ''Roots'', but they began incorporating more obvious ThrashMetal influences on ''Dante XXI''.
106	** ''A-Lex'' had them settling on a sound that fused all of their various sounds over the years except their earliest BlackMetal stuff into a fairly coherent (and heavy) whole, which they have more-or-less stuck with to this day.
107	* NuMetal: The band delved into nu metal starting with ''Music/{{Roots}}'' and continued with that sound all the way up to ''Roorback''.
108	* PrecisionFStrike: Pretty frequent (Max does drop {{Cluster F Bomb}}s, but in music, these are carefully dropped). An example from "Refuse/Resist":
109	--> ''Inside the state''
110	--> ''War is created''
111	--> ''No man's land''
112	--> ''What is this shit?''
113	* RearrangeTheSong: The Cavalera brothers' current band Cavalera Conspiracy re-recorded their first album ''Morbid Visions'' (as well as ''Bestial Devastation'') in 2023.
114	* RevisitingTheRoots: ''Dante XXI'' saw the band reintroducing their deathrash roots into their sound after mostly abandoning it on the prior Green-era albums. Since then, they've continued in this direction while infusing elements of their various eras together.
115	* RockMeAsmodeus: The main lyrical theme in their early works. Starting with ''Schizophrenia'', they would abandon this trope in favor of more political and personal themes.
116	* ScaryBlackMan: Derrick. Try not to be intimidated by this big guy.
117	* SiblingTeam: Max and Igor before they left the band.
118	* SopranoAndGravel: Of a sort. Max never used (and still never has used) cleans, but Derrick occasionally throws them into their music, adding a soulful baritone to contrast his fairly high harsh vocals. While he mostly used them on ''Nation'' and ''Roorback'', they do show up sparsely afterwards, an example being on the title track of ''Machine Messiah''.
119	* SpecialGuest: They've had quite a few over the years, with the more notable ones being Scott Latour (ex-Opprobrium), [[Music/{{Obituary}} John Tardy]], [[Music/{{Atheist}} Kelly Shaefer]], [[Music/DeadKennedys Jello Biafra]], [[Music/FaithNoMore Mike Patton]], [[Music/{{Korn}} Jonathan Davis]], [[Music/LimpBizkit DJ Lethal]], [[Music/{{Metallica}} Jason Newsted]], [[Music/{{Hatebreed}} Jamey Jasta]], Music/{{Apocalyptica}}, [[Music/{{Slayer}} Dave Lombardo]], and Emmily Barreto (Far from Alaska).
120	* StartMyOwn:
121	** Before Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy, there was Wagner Lamounier and Sarcofago.
122	** Max Cavalera formed his own band Music/{{Soulfly}} when he left Sepultura.
123	** Once Igor got out of the band, he formed Music/CavaleraConspiracy with his brother Max.
124	** Derrick formed the thrash/death band Musica Diablo in 2008, who released an album in 2010 before they went their separate ways the following year.
125	** Original guitar player Jairo Guedz formed a band named The Troops of Doom decades after his departure, who released their first album in 2022.
126	* TakeThat: "Cut Throat" from ''Music/{{Roots}}'' has one towards their former recording label, going like this:
127	--> ''Integrity will free our soul from/[[FunWithAcronyms Enslavement! Pathetic Ignorant Corporations]]!''.
128	* TokenMinority: Derrick is the sole black member of the band, as well as one of the very few well-known black musicians in extreme metal as a whole, a status he shares with [[Music/{{Suffocation}} Terrance Hobbs, Mike Smith]], [[Music/{{Oceano}} Adam Warren, Chason Westmoreland]], Serge Kasongo (Leng Tch'e), Caller of the Storms (Blasphemy), Byron Davis and Doc Coyle (God Forbid), [[Music/{{Entombed}} Alex Hellid]], [[Music/KillswitchEngage Howard Jones]], [[Music/{{Inferi}} Malcolm Pugh]], [[Music/{{Aborted}} Mendel bij de Leij]], Tommy Vext (ex-Divine Heresy), Katon W. de Pena (Hirax), and Aantar Lee Coates (Diabolic). He was also the band's only member to hail from the United States until Greyson Nekrutman joined in 2024.
129	* VocalEvolution: Max started out with a sinister mid-ranged rasp that was halfway between death metal and black metal. As time went on, his vocals became huskier and more forceful.
130	** Derrick's voice was a hardcore-esque shout during his early years in the band befitting of his punk background, but starting around ''Dante XXI'' his vocals gradually became slightly lower and more death metal leaning while keeping the punk edge.
131	* WeUsedToBeFriends: Igor Cavalera became this towards the group after his departure. While he did leave on debatably amicable terms and initially claimed he was still on good footing with the others, since reuniting with his brother Max to form Cavalera Conspiracy he gradually became more distant from them and began treating CC like a separate incarnation of Sepultura, even going as far as claiming the band should've ceased to exist after he left. He also stated that he still considered Derrick his friend upon quitting, but there's never been any evidence in the years since then that they actually kept in touch, further solidifying this.
132	* [[WordSaladTitle Word Salad Titles]] [[WordSaladLyrics And Lyrics]]: The band initially didn't know much English, and even now can be really poor speakers. So they let Max, who knew the most English, name their songs by using a Portuguese-English dictionary. Thus we got "Show Me the Wrath," "From the Past Comes the Storms" (or its demo title, "[[{{Engrish}} The Past Reborns the Storms]]"), "Septic Schizo," "Sarcastic Existence" and some others.
133	** Also "Ratamahatta," even though it is sung completely in Portuguese.
134	** Parodied by Mamonas Assassinas, a compatriot, [[OneBookAuthor short]]-lived comedy GenreMashup band, whose song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjbcmTE38mU Débil Metal]]"[[note]]a play on "débil mental" - lit. "mentally debileweak of mind," used to describe stupid, crazy people[[/note]] is sung on the style of Sepultura, with the vocalist doing an impression of Max:
135	--> ''I just can't explain, it melts in my mouth''
136	--> ''Dying to me now is popcorn''
137	* WorldMusic: Their album ''Music/{{Roots}}'' is notable because it incorporates traditional Brazilian music in its sound.

Context Music / Sepultura