For those unfamiliar, Sepultura was a thrash metal band from Brazil who had some success in the American metal scene.
The song below, "Biotech Is Godzilla," is a deep cut from their Chaos A.D. album in 1993. It's not their best song musically, but the lyrics are eerily relevant after 30 years.
Better songs off this album were "Propaganda" and "Refuse/Resist," also prescient for today.
Hardcore thrash metal isn't for everyone, but it's interesting that these guys witnessed events in Brazil 30 years ago that have recently been projected onto the entire world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deuYKqlUiN8
Rio Summit, '92
Street people kidnapped
Hid from view
"To save the earth"
Our rulers met
Some had other
Secret plans
Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Say what?
Strip-mine the Amazon
Of cells of life itself
Gold rush for genes is on
Natives get nothing
Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Is Godzilla
Mutations cooked in labs
Money-mad experiments
New food + medicine?
New germs + accidents!
Like Cubatao
"World's most polluted town"
Air melts your face
Deformed children all around
Bio-technology
Ain't what's so bad
Like all technology
It's in the wrong hands
Cut-throat corporations
Don't give a damn
When lots of people die
From what they've made
Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Is A.I.D.S.?
Stop!!!
Roots was my fav album of their's
It was a good one.
Just wait till you hear their older shit like, "Mass Hypnosis" or "Dead Embryotic Cells"
I fucking love Sepultura btw, you're preaching to the right crowd here with me.
Yeah I figured I'd rope in some fellow metal heads with this post. Sep and Pantera are what got me into metal.
https://communities.win/c/extrememetal
Come join the party with us here!
Don't forget about Goiania incident: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph241/gerli1/
Absolutely no regulation of that crap. The Brazilian government is such a shit show.
Bolsonaro is considered the Trump of Brazil. I haven't been there for a long time. I wonder if it's better?
Max knows some things.....u/purkiss80 would agree
Their song from that same album “Refuse / Resist” has been the theme song in my head when it came to vax mandates affecting the places I’m part of
Makes sense. I used to play it before MMA practice many years ago.
The videos are pretty based too. Showing clearcutting of the rain forest, commercial meat production. Roots was one of my fav albums along with Hell Awaits. And fueled my MMA practice too. I still listen to it when I lift on the weekend. Otherwise, it's X22 for cardio and light stuff during the week.
There's nothing like cranking up Sepultura's Slave New World before sparring.
Face - The enemy!
Stare - Inside you!
Control - Your thoughts!
Destroy - Destroy 'em all!
Now days I only do weight training so I listen to X22 while in the gym.
Hard to push it with Dave whispering in your ear.
it was written by jello biafra from dead kennedys so keep listening to both music is like anything else so shill dumbshit others push truth. some dance between the stones told us the beetles got replaced.
Wow, I'm surprised I didn't know that about Biafra writing it. Good point. The lyrics sound like something Max Cavalera would write so I didn't think to research it.
i didnt know till i relistened because your post so.. is how goes
my favorite sepultura lp ... never gets old for me
Max & Iggor Cavalera coming to my neck of the woods in June, can't wait to see em play...Hopefully they will play a bunch of Sepultura stuff. Actually just realized their tour name is Return Beneath Arise, so yeah stoked.
When I saw Soulfly many years ago, have their set was Sepultura. So yeah, expect mostly Sep songs.