Sepultura

Released: April 7, 1989

Songwriter: Max Cavalera Andreas Kisser Igor Cavalera Paulo Jr.

Producer: Sepultura Scott Burns

[Verse 1]
Rotting skinny corpses left alone
They're like an endless disease
Invisible, painful, eternal
Creatures fucked by a greedy past

[Verse 2]
Since you were born
You want to make money and power
A simple fuel to the corrupt
Way of mankind

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
Hungry for living, to live like a slave
Without knowing your master
You have no value, you're just another one
Death will quench your hunger

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 4]
Hunger for confidence
To shake the hand of your best friend
And later to be betrayed
The law rules the mind of ignorance

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]
Hungry for pleasure, you act like a robot
The tears in your eyes as red as blood
Your pleasure is pain, your pleasure is torture
Hunger is your pleasure, hungry for the future

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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