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Sepultura is a Brazilian thrash metal/death metal
band assembled in 1984. Their name means "Grave
(burial)|grave" in the Portuguese
language|Portuguese language - which they got when
Max was translating the lyrics of the Motörhead
song "Dancing On Your Grave."

==Biography==
Sepultura was formed in Belo Horizonte in the
1980s by Jairo Guedz (Guitars), Max Cavalera
(Guitars and vocals), Paulo Jr. (Bass), and Igor
Cavalera (Drums). Sepultura signed to Cogumelo
Records after a few years of performing. Their
first EP was "Bestial Devastation", a  split with
another band's album on the flipside. Their first
LP was Morbid Visions (1986 in music), which
included the moderate hit "Troops of Doom" that
attracted the band some attention.  After Morbid
Visions, Jairo Guedz left the band for another
death metal venture and Sao Paulo based guitarist
Andreas Kisser replaced him. Their second
full-length album was Schizophrenia
(album)|Schizophrenia, which was a critical
success that led to a contract with Roadrunner
Records.

With Roadrunner distributing Schizophrenia
world-wide, Sepultura reached new audiences of
metal fans, cemented by 1989's (1989 in music)
Beneath the Remains, which was followed by a long
European tour.  By the time they released 1991's
(1991 in music) Arise, Sepultura was located in
Phoenix, Arizona and had become one of the most
critically-praised metal bands of the 1990s, in
spite of a lack of mainstream success.  Chaos A.D.
(1993 in music) was another hit within metal
communities, and also incorporated a Punk
rock|punk sound for the first time.  This trend
continued with 1996's Roots (album)|Roots, in
which the band further innovated by experimenting
with elements from the music of Brazil's
indigenous peoples. (1996 in music).

At the height of Sepultura's fame, however, a
series of events broke the band apart. First, just
before the band were due to play at the 1996
Castle_Donington | Donington Monsters of Rock
Festival, lead singer Max Cavalera's wife (and the
band's manager), Gloria, was hit by the death of
her teenage son in a car crash. Max and Gloria
left the rest of the band to go back to America,
and the band performed as a trio for the first
time.

It was rumoured that there was some intra-band
tension throughout the last half of 1996, and at
the end of a successful tour of Britain later that
year, at Brixton Academy on 17th December 1996,
the band told Max they would not renew Gloria's
management contract. Max Cavalera left the band
(and formed a band called Soulfly), and the others
announced that they would continue under the
Sepultura name and were searching for a
replacement.

A recording of Max's last show with the band was
later released as a live album against the wishes
of the band by their former record label
Roadrunner Records, Under A Pale Grey Sky. Derrick
Green of Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland wound up
filling the frontman spot, and the band released
Against (album)|Against in 1998 (1998 in music).
Against was commercially less succesfull than its
two predecessors, as was the follow-up Nation
(album)|Nation. Creatively these records were of
no less quality than Sepultura's earlier records,
and Sepultura kept on reinventing metal thier own
way.
After recording Revolusongs|Revolusongs, an EP
full of covers in 2002 (2002 in music) the band
released the album Roorback|Roorback in 2003 (2003
in music) which garnered a lot of positive
reviews.
A new album, called Dante 05 is expected in early
2006. It is supposed to be based after The Divine
Comedy. A live DVD will alos be released in late
2005 (2005 in music).

==Line-up==
*Andreas Kisser - Guitar
*Derrick Green - Vocals/Guitar
*Igor Cavalera - Drums
*Paulo Jr.| Paulo Jr. a.k.a. Paulo Pinto - Bass

==Former members==
*Jairo Guedz - Lead Guitar (1984-1986)
*Max Cavalera - Vocal / Guitar (1984-1996)

==Discography==
* Bestial Devastation (EP, 1985)
* Morbid Visions (1986)
* Schizophrenia (album)|Schizophrenia (1987)
* Beneath the Remains (1989)
* Arise (1991)
* Chaos A.D. (1993)
* Roots (album)|Roots (1996)
* Against (1998)
* Nation (album)|Nation (2001)
* Revolusongs (EP, 2002)
* Roorback (2003)
* Dante 05 (2006)

==Videography==
===VHS===
* Under Siege (Live in Barcelona) (VHS, 1991)
* Third World Chaos (VHS, 1995)
* We Are What We Are (VHS, 1996)
===DVD===
* Chaos (DVD compilation of the 3 VHS releases,
2002)

==External links==
Wiktionary
* http://www.sepultura.com.br Sepultura web site
* http://www.sepultribe.com/ Sepultura official
fan site