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Sepultura - Roots Audio CD

A fair review of the Sepultura "Roots" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Sepultura reviews here, or go back to the Sepultura tabs.

Sepultura Band: Sepultura
Title: Roots
Rating:
Release Date: 1996-03-12
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Roots Bloody Roots 2: Attitude 3: Cut-Throat 4: Ratamahatta 5: Breed Apart 6: Straighthate 7: Spit 8: Lookaway 9: Dusted 10: Born Stubborn 11: Jasco 12: Itsari 13: Ambush 14: Endangered Species 15: Dictatorsh*t

The Metal from the jungle
The metalheads in Brazil were really proud of Sepultura. I love Heavy metal and i am from Brazil and i remenber When Roots came to the world. . . Can you belive that? From Brazil, man?Yes, and they are really heavy and really great, and Roots was the pinaccle of it all. After that, Max split the band and things change a lot. Arise and Chaos are my favorites, but Roots consolidate Sepultura as a monster rock of heavy music. At 1996 these guys from Brazil were on the top of metal with Pantera and Biohazard, do you remenber? Whatever, í love Sepultura with Max and if you like insane music with heavy guitars, drums and attitude, Roots is perfect for you.


Dont listen to the narrow minded haters....
Stop what your doing right now and buy this album. . anyone who doesnt have this album should be smacked by law. Nuff said.


Still Stands in top 5 of 1996
I popped this in after having spent almost 10 years away from it. . and I have to say that this album inspires.

It is not as technical as any of their previous works, but does leap off where Chaos AD left off.

The goal here. . . was a return to simplicity. We all know they can write technically inspired and classical riffs. . . they knew that too. The goal is no more apparent than when you look at the cover and title of the album. The fact remains that an album of this type has not been repeated by any other band since.

The riffing is very simplistic at times, but to beat the dead horse: that was the point. I challenge metal listeners to find another song that sounds like Itsari. . . the native singing and dancing combined with some well-crafted Spanish acoustic. Only the Swedish metal bands were doing anything remotely similar, specifically Dark Tranquillity and In Flames.

Another reviewer commented that the historical relevance of the album is what contributes to its greatness; I agree, but take the other view.

In 1996 we also had Tool's "Aenima" and Manson's "Antichrist Superstar. " This is the only other album that year that stands in line as a memorable performance with those three, and to contrast the Scandinavian release that year was In Flame's "The Jester Race," and all four are albums I can come back to 12 years later and say, "that was f#$%^ good. ".


Is this Sepultura or Soulfly
Ok, first of all. . is this soulfly or Sepultura. All the tracks on this album sound like a heavy Soulfly. Sepultura has now totally lost their edge with the off-time thrash/death metal that their REAL roots were, what made one of the top metal acts of the 80s and 90s. This album all the makings of a nu-metal(Soulfly) album. Very basic riffs, very stupid lyrics, and very basic jams in the songs. The complexity of Igor's drumming, Andreas' guitar and riffing and Max's growling has all left for nu-metal styles. Igor's playing sounds as simple as Lars Ulrich, Andreas' playing is no longer complex, he sounds we came out of Soulfly with the basic riffs. Max yells at the top of his lungs and no longer has the growl he is known for. The album even has DJ scratching and Jonathan Davis from Korn on the track "Lookaway". You can't any more nu-metal than having Jonathan Davis cameo on a track.

THis album is major disappointment for any one who knows the REAL Sepultura, the pre-"Chaos AD" Sepultura. .


a metal classic
Sepultura are much more influential the they are given credit. I believe this was one of the best metal album of the 90's. Finally there was a band that used the heavy death metal sound with lyrics with actual meaning rather than just relying on shock value. I'm not saying the lyrics were splitting the atom but they were much more mature than what death/black metal had been doing for the last 10 years. The funny thing is when I first heard Roots I did not realize they were the same band that I had read about in the mid 80's who were said to have a sound similar to the great Celtic Frost. If you love heavy music and have not listened to Sepultura than buy this cd.


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