Sepultura

Released: October 6, 1998

Songwriter: Andreas Kisser Derrick Green

Producer: Sepultura Howard Benson

We gamble with life fighting tribes after tribes
Colors and races misplaced in the spaces
We're falling, we're crawling
We’re crying, denying

Heavy rain shaking ground
No roots will be found
Hate from my mother, the limits of mankind
We're lying, we're dying, destroying

The earth is rotting
The earth is rotting
Rot old, old earth

The earth is growing
It keeps on growing
Grow old, old earth

Believing in gods and spirits that can save us
Shout to the skies and disturbing the peace
We're rioting, we're shouting
We're killing, denying

Involved in our minds
But not by our own actions
Consume all the wealth
There’s no hope for redemption
We're burning, we're cutting, destroying

Can you feel?
Can you feel?
Can you feel it leave!

[Break]
[Solo]

Destroying, denying
Destroying, denying

The earth is rotting
The earth is rotting
Rot old, old earth

The earth is growing
It keeps on growing
Grow old, old earth

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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