Released: September 2, 1993

Songwriter: Sepultura

Producer: Andy Wallace

Friday, October second, 1992

Chaos has descended in "Carandiru"
The biggest penitentiary complex in South America
Over a hundred inmates dead and hundreds injured on the massacre
The police arrived with helicopters
And over two hundred armed forces

They took the jailblock called "Pavilhao Nove"
And opened fire on the inmates
In a holocaust method of annihilation
The government of the city of Sao Paulo
Cannot control the brutality of its police

Holocaust, body piles
Confrontation, mutilation

Discipline, ignorance
Conflagration, torture

Over eighty percent of the inmates were not sentenced yet
The bodies were filled with bullets
And bites from the police dogs
The police try to hide the massacre
Saying there were only eight deaths

The violence of Brazilian cops
Is very well known outside Brazil
This kind of extermination is a method that they use
To get rid of the overpopulation in the jails
The violence of the cops
Left the whole pavillion destroyed after the rebellion

"Pavilhao Nove" [Pavilhao 9]

Sepultura

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.