Sepultura

Released: November 10, 1986

Songwriter: Max Cavalera Igor Cavalera Jairo Guedz Paulo Jr.

Producer: Sepultura

The doom is near in this night
Bloody skulls are over the pentagram
Cry for the sabbath bells
Fallen angels scream for mercy

It's a time to bury the priest
On the down of Megiddo your grave is dig
The sky turns as black as spell
Haunting my eyes and my mind

Funeral rites [x2]

Rites

You are chosen by Hell
Dig your sepulchre
We force you to come in
And we'll bury you alive

Black songs are heard with the funeral
Rotting corpses mutilated over the ground
Graves will be violated
And corpses will be stolen

Funeral rites [x2]

Rites!

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.

more tracks from the album

Morbid Visions

From the albums

Morbid Visions (1986)
Morbid Visions/Bestial Devastation (1990)

Sepultura popular songs

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