Sepultura

Sepultura, a Brazilian heavy‑metal band formed in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, by brothers Max Cavalera (guitar, 1984‑1996) and Igor Cavalera (drums, 1984‑2006), began as a teenage trio in 1984 and released the raw EP Bestial Devastation in 1985, followed by Morbid Visions in 1986 on Cogumelo Records. The band signed with Roadrunner Records, issuing Schizophrenia (1987) and Beneath the Remains (1989), which established their reputation in the global thrash scene. The breakthrough came with Arise (1991) and Chaos A.D. (1993), the latter featuring the socially‑charged single "Dead Embryonic Cells". In 1996 the album Roots blended tribal percussion and sold over 1.2 million copies worldwide. Max Cavalera departed the same year, and vocalist Derrick Green joined, leading to Against (1998), Nation (2001), and Rootsback (2003). Subsequent releases-Dante XXI (2006), A‑Lex (2009), Kairos (2011), The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart (2013), Machine Messiah (2017)-showed a shift toward groove and conceptual themes. Quadra (2020) and The Cloud of Unknowing EP (2026) continue the band's evolution. Notable tour highlights include headlining Rock in Rio (1991) and extensive worldwide campaigns under Roadrunner and Nuclear Blast, while Roots achieved a Billboard 200 peak, cementing Sepultura’s influence across groove, thrash, and nu‑metal.

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