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!!!