Sepultura

Released: April 7, 1989

Songwriter: Max Cavalera Andreas Kisser Igor Cavalera Paulo Jr.

Producer: Sepultura Scott Burns

I follow the steps I see in front of me
They are deep and well-defined
They show an undefined but straight path
What has gone through me will never return

Future won't let me look back
I just walk, I don't evolve, I just walk
Animals run by my side
They try to communicate, each one in its own way

But I can't understand
I feel alone on this irrational planet
To create or just observe
I keep walking on this desert made of ideas

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My head is heavy but empty
Everything around me is void
Without movement, without perspectives
The night invades the sky

That darkens the dry ground
Making my shadow join the big stain that's forming
My steps become
Slow and agonize

I step on skulls of generations that have not formed
I hear painful cries of wars that are to come
To create everything again, from the beginning
To teach new minds, to awake a sleeping giant buried

On the ashes of disgrace
It's scornful the way I live
I look well, I think I'm well
That's all

I follow the steps I see in front of me
They are deep and well-defined
They show an undefined but straight path
What has gone through me will never return

Primitive 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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