SEPULTURA

Release Year: 1996
Artist Origin: BRA
Style: modern straightforward groovy thrash metal

on their sixth studio album 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; recent European repress comes with authentic design