Sepultura

Released: April 7, 1989

Songwriter: Max Cavalera Andreas Kisser Igor Cavalera Paulo Jr.

Producer: Sepultura Scott Burns

[Verse 1]
In the middle of a war
That was not started by me
Deep depression of the nuclear remains
I've never thought it
I've never thought about
This happening to me
Proliferations of ignorance
Orders that stand to destroy
Battlefields and slaughter
Now they mean my home and work

[Chorus]
Who has won?
Who has died?

Beneath the remains

[Verse 2]
Cities in ruins
Bodies packed on minefields
Neurotic game of life and death
Now I can feel the end
Premonition about my final hour
A sad image of everything
Everything's so real

[Chorus]
Who has won?
Who has died?

[Post-Chorus]
Everything happened so quickly
I felt I was about to leave hell
I'll fight for myself, for you, but so what?

[Bridge 1]
To feel a deep hate
To feel scared
But beyond that, to wish being at an end
Clotted blood
Mass mutilation
Hope for the future is only Utopia

[Bridge 2]
Mortality, insanity, fatality
You'll never want to feel what I've felt
Mediocrity, brutality, and falsity
It's just a world against me

[Verse 2]
Cities in ruins
Bodies packed on minefields
Neurotic game of life and death
Now I can feel the end
Premonition about my final hour
A sad image of everything
Everything's so real

[Chorus]
Who has won?
Who has died?

Beneath the remains

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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