Sepultura

Released: April 7, 1989

Songwriter: Max Cavalera Andreas Kisser Igor Cavalera Paulo Jr.

Producer: Sepultura Scott Burns

[Verse 1]
Humidity could be felt on the walls
Touched with the palm and used to scare
They used to sweat, they used to stink
Everything swamped and hot

[Verse 2]
But in the corner, laying on a bed
A cold piece made to stay alive
Trapped within its body
It could not think anymore

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]
Thoughts of times of sanity
The world was isolated
Where the sun would salute him
And the night was violent

[Verse 3]
Fear and guilt
Invade the corners of the room
Pain was felt constantly
They keep on destroying

[Verse 4]
It could be seen through the window
The eye of disgust and scorn
When you hear the laugh of a madman
That's about to die

[Outro]
To suffer alone in disgrace
His hate is his own
Always hating being alive
Sarcastic existence

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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