SEPULTURA

Release Year: 2017
Artist Origin: BRA
Style: modern straightforward groovy thrash metal

on their sixth studio album [1996] that has received the unprecedented attention the most famous Brazilian headbanging outfit turns back to their cultural roots, effectively combining uncompromising thrash metal sound, enhanced with rhythmic and ritualistic accents, with authentic indigenous music of South American continent, organically utilizing the instantly inflaming percussion and ceremonial chants of the country's Xavantes tribe that come from their ancestors, to a maximally powerful, jaw-dropping outcome; visceral synthesis of groove and aggression makes this significant record a big step forward for the thrash and groove metal genres, yet also closes a major chapter for the glorious four-piece, followed up by irreplaceable frontman, vocalist and guitarist Max Cavalera's departure; ultimate expanded gatefold sleeve double black 180g vinyl edition comes with a newly remastered sound and no less than twelve bonuses in shape of demo versions, instrumental rough mixes, previously unreleased takes, and Celtic Frost Procreation of The Wicked cover