Sepultura

Released: March 20, 2001

Songwriter: Kevin Haskins Peter Murphy Daniel Ash David Hawkins

[Verse 1]
White on white, translucent black capes
Back on the rack
Back on the rack
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have all been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
The black box

[Chorus]
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead, undead, undead

[Verse 2]
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time’s, dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
The Count, the Count

[Chorus]
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead, undead, undead
Undead, undead, undead, undead
Undead, undead, undead, undead
Undead, undead, undead, undead
Undead, undead, undead, undead
Undead, undead, undead, undead

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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