Sepultura

Released: January 23, 2009

Songwriter: Sepultura

Producer: Stanley Soares Sepultura

I've never realized how bad it was
To lose the ground to rest my feet
Humanity is lost inside
My eyes can't teach my mind

Clockwork nerves controlled my arms
Pupils are wide open to see
No coming back from where I left
A rotten orange healed by force

A number was my name
A priest was my strength
A cell was my home
A nightmare so unreal

I'm not the man I used to be
I'm something else, this is not me
No self-respect, no memory
I'm living my own metamorphosis

Sepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte. Formed in 1984 by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, the band was a major force in the death metal, thrash metal and groove metal genres during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their later experiments drawing influence from alternative metal, world music, nu metal, hardcore punk and industrial metal.

The first Sepultura show was on December 4th, 1984. The band played two songs that never were re-recorded or released.

The band name comes from a Portuguese translation of Motörhead’s song “Dancing on Your Grave” which is “Dançando na sua Sepultura”. Sepultura means “grave” (sepulchre) in Portuguese (and in some other Latin-based languages). Originally, they wanted to call the band Tropa de Choque (Shock Troops), but found that the name had been used before.

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