Sepultura

Crawling
From under the ashes
It's the start of a rebirth without limitations

Leave it all to begin again
Forced to face
With who we are and what we did

No deception
Or promises
Everyone is running out of patience

The writing's on the wall
The tide is turning, now
Won't pledge allegiance, why
Our goals will never die

Constrained by corruption
Bleeding hearts were lead astray
Swore an oath
To lead the way
But the greed transformed to shame

There's a reason to break these chains
We're all aware
That no one wants to live this way

Locked up and confined
No attention
But we stand
We stand to make a difference

The writing's on the wall
The tide is turning, now
Won't pledge allegiance, why
Our goals will never die

The writing's on the wall
The tide is turning, now
Won't pledge allegiance, why
Our goals will never die

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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