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Not my type of music, but this was really good
Cool to see a Brazilian band on this list, but screaming metal is not my thing. I tried to give it a chance, but no amount of musical dexterity makes me want to listen to those vocals.
Viihdyin tän parissa vaikka olikin ehkä raskaampaa mitä normaalisti kuuntelen
I'm a bit older now so I don't dig Max's vocal style the way I might have when I was younger. It goes pretty hard without feeling cliched or repetitive. I would give this a 4.5 if I could but rounding down.
For all that is going on musically that MIGHT have merit, it is overshadowed and overwhelmed by the worst vocal I have ever heard. Musically a 3-4, but vocally and lyrically 0-1. It should be a 2-star rating, but since I had to take a day off from listening to music at all, it gets a merciful 1.
I’m a mini metal head, I love heavy metal, but sadly death metal is where my line is drawn. For what it is I can tell is very good, I love the drumming in special. But in this list flooded with Brit rock this band has 2 albums and SOAD and AIC just one each? Not too fair
I'm back talking about dirtbags again today. When this came out, I was in high school and only the real dirtbags were listening to this. I heard this album so much then and built up this negative association. I liked Roots Bloody Roots but beyond that, the album had become inaccessible to me. A few weeks ago, I spun this record and realized it only has a dirtbag veneer.
I can't do the vocals, sorry. Otherwise interesting.
Primera vez que lo escucho completo, su portada siempre me ha parecido llamativa. A pesar de que los conocí mejor a inicios de este año creo que son buenos. En otro tiempo me quejaría de que solo son gritos y cosas sin sentido, pero ñeh, es placentero escucharlo, en especial por esa guitarra y las percusiones que son una delicia. No puedo alargarme mucho, me gusta. Attitude y Roots Bloody Roots son mis favoritas.
31. avgust 2026. 14.04h bebin prvi album sepulture, it was p good best: attitude
So it's another really grinding heavy metal group from the 1990s. They seem to do what they do just fine. Why I need to hear two albums by these guys before I die is beyond my understanding.
Not the mood for this today. They know how to play instruments.
I have very little experience with Sepultura, besides the other album on the list. This is obviously interesting for the genre. I wonder if something like this is embraced or hated by their older fans? Not for me, but sure keep it on a list like this.
I like the 90s alt/grunge/metal sound so I liked a lot of this, although there was a bit more growling and roaring than I tend like (my preference being very little if any). I didn't realise these guys were Brazilian and the more I thought about it, the more I convinced myself that I've never listened to them before. I think I was confusing them in my head with Pantera initially. Anyhow, I would listen to this again.
Roots Bloody Roots 2.8 Attitude 2.5 Cut-Throat 2.3 Ratamahatta 2 Breed Apart 2.3 Straighthate 2.5 Spit 2.2 Lookaway 2.1 Dusted 2 Born Stubborn 2 Jasco 3 Itsari 2.4 Ambush 2.2 Endangered Species 2 Dictatorshit 2 Canyon Jam (instrumental) 2.3 Score: 2.2875
Don’t get me wrong - I too hated my parents in high school, just not like this.
Great stuff. Feels like it's got all the parts of 90s groove/nu-metal that I actually like jammed into one politically charged album. If there's one thing those genres got unequivocally right, it was knowing how to mix/produce a bass guitar to cut through the rest of a metal band. 9/10.
This is a masterpiece. Brutal, non compromising metal enriched by the bands roots. The latino and tribal rhythms and motifs in the album make it an unforgettable experience. 5/5
Not my cup of tea. I can get why some people would like this but I would rather not listen to it again
Metal
🤯😱 1 star is pushing it
I guess this is "groove metal," but at different points it cycles between what I would describe as thrash metal, nu-metal, and even death metal and I guess folk metal, given the indigenous Brazilian percussion and chants that are brought in on some tracks. There's a lot to like here, though I tend to prefer the fastest and heaviest tracks in the middle section of the album. Gonna call this a 3.5 rounded up to 4.
WHERE IS THE SIX STARS BUTTON?!! AARGH!
This is decent. Good beats. Not as groovy as other metal albums I like but enjoyable enough
Not my thing
This sounds awesome, but I'm not the biggest fan of the vocal style:(
I was not expecting to enjoy that as much as I did. Reading the Wikipedia entry was the cherry on the top.
I enjoyed the instrumentals but not the vocals
Eww no
An hour of screaming is entirely too much screaming. That said the music was still pretty good. However I feel I must deduct a star for the length of the Canyon Jam.
Sepultura – Roots (1996) On Day 233, Roots proved to be an exhausting album to get through. I already knew "Roots Bloody Roots" coming into this and thought it was a good, energetic track, but that was pretty much where the highlights ended for me. As for the rest of the tracklist, I unfortunately can't say the same. It felt dense, repetitive, and genuinely taxing to listen through in a single sitting. An ambitious blend of heavy genres, but ultimately a tiring listen. A low 2/5.
Much prefer Arise to this one. Surprised Sepultura gets two albums to this list when there's not much metal in general.
75/100. I thought most of the album was some pretty good metal. I liked the Brazilian music and the themes of identity. Metal with indigenous roots and primal instinct, nice.
Don't think that I have to listen to screamo lol
I’m pretty sure this is what they used to torture prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Fun stuff
Good throughout with a cracking start with Roots Bloody Roots
Best of Sepultura. Chef's kiss
I quite like some metal but I don't like this
A tough one to judge. Musically, it is not bad and I can see where Slipknot, Breaking Benjamin and dozens of other high profile bands got their ideas. However, the screaming gets a bit grating after a while. There isn’t much variety here. I wouldn’t cry if I had to listen again, but nor would I be excited.
Holy cow this is so bad. Why would this be on this list?
I've heard of this album for a number of years now, how it revolutionised metal. Metal isn't my thing so I never really explored, and I was fairly nervous about it. I still can't say it's my thing, but you're hearing things on this that I think you're going to struggle to hear anywhere else. The textures are great, some of the artistry is top notch, I just know I'm likely to never listen to this again.
One thing i appreciate about this challenge is hearing albums that i respect in genres I don’t like. This is one such album. I’m not a fan of death-core, or whatever this is called. And, at 57, I’m not going to start going to Sepultura shows. But I appreciate the creativity, enthusiasm, and obvious joy the band brings to this music. I feel like they’ve merged some Aztec roots with their metal energy. It’s impressive (but I’m not going to spin the album all the way through again). A 3.
Pleasantly surprised by how good this was.
The last Sepultura album I heard, I said I wasn't a fan of the rough voice singing - I feel like there was more on this album than the other one, so I found myself not like this album as much as I feel like I could have. Also, I was not a fan of the last song; I really found it unnecessary.
Younger me would've really liked this, but current me only somewhat liked this. Some solid breakdowns though.
Got Sepulturas Roots yesterday but I'm skipping that for now until I can give it a more proper listen. It doesnt really lend itself to casual listening over breakfast Back after giving it a more proper listen. its fun to finally get a metal album since I have enough grasp of the genre to get what a particular album is trying to do even if I don't particularily like it. Per wikipedia Roots (1996) incorporates a slower tempo, latin rhythms, traditional brazillian percussions and indigenous musical elements while at the same time incorporating considerable nu metal influences and collabs. This isn't my cup of tea. I can appreciate the percussions and what the album is trying to achieve but I don't vibe with the vocals or the nu metal riffs.
I liked this album, more than I thought I would.
This is probably my favorite new-to-me metal album I've encountered on this list. Frenetic, engaging, and with some truly unique takes on the genre.
Enjoyed this more than I anticipated. Exciting percussion, interesting variety in guitar lines. Probably won't listen again but I understand why you might.
I’m not a big death metal fan so I had never heard of this band. The instrumentation is impressive but I need to be in the right headspace to feed off the energy of this album.
Brasil! Pesado. Não é meu estilo, mas reconheço o poder da banda
First time listening to them. I like it! Feels like they may have helped inspire bands like SOAD. Will definitely check out more of their stuff.
Didn't always enjoy the vocals tbh, but there was still a lot to like and the riffs and grooves were fantastic.
God I wasn’t up for this today. Heavy as hell, and the two singles particularly are great
A good thrash album, elevated by the traditional Brazilian instruments here and there like the berimbau, and Indigenous music and chants. Pretty unique for a thrash album. Too bad I never listened to this one for whatever reason when I was briefly into thrash as a teenager, it was definitely an oversight. I love Itsari. Ambush has a definite groove. There are a few totally experimental tracks on here, but they kind of work to break up the thrash--they contribute to the vibe for sure, like the last track. Gonna go 5/5 as I appreciate the impact of this as a thrash masterpiece.
I'm not a big fan of metal, but this album was such a delight. I am Mexican, and as an artist, It's been hard for me to acknowldege my heritage in my artwork, this was a huge masterclass on how to do it. The samba rythms in Breed apart are genius, the sound design of the album generally speaking, is brutal, and the concept is so well developed. A five star to me.
Older Sepultura records have a lot of groovy riffs, but this horizon-expanding album is more about riffy grooves. Favourite tracks: Roots Bloody Roots, Itsari, Dictatorshit
First, Chris Cornell is the only belter I've ever heard that sounds really good. Honorable mentions to Phil Anselmo and Joey Belladonna. If you can't belt really, really well, don't. It's very simple. Second, musically, these guys are actually pretty interesting. Early drop tuning. Melodic thrash. The rhythms are sort of hypnotizing. If I'm lazy, I say give me the same music with Chris or Phil singing and we really have something here. Listening to this jackwad screaming at me is just too distracting. Finally, while I get it, and I genuinely liked this album musically, a shit singer can only take you so far. I'm going to assume without looking that he's also the lyricist and blame that uninspired, repetitive drivel on him to further protect the talented musicians in the band. Lawrd, is it a 3? I'll give a bump for the indigenous influences. Ratamahatta caught me off-guard in the best way. Until the infantile monkey of a lead "singer" got involved again. The band should kidnap the guest vocalist for a massive upgrade.
Nu metal samba.
The beginning of this im sorry almost unlistenable but it came around!
Look, it’s just not for me, and that’s okay. The guitars were cool!
At school the last few years there's a tradition that one of the videos for the year 12 farewell assembly is carpool karaoke with various teachers. And one of the science teachers this year (a mere 4 days ago) did a singalong to a Sepultura song from this album!!! I didn't mind this as a whole and it was musically kinda interesting (there was that song near the end that got a bit folky?) But probably not going back to it
METAL!!!!!!
Not my thing. Clearly talented but …..
Very very few bands can pull off that vocal tone and style successfully, and this isn’t one of them.
Calling this a tough listen is an understatement. And the only thing really keeping it out of the lowest rating is their incorporation of Brazilian roots and occasional dynamic shifts. The lead singer must gargle with razor blades to “sing” like that.
Saw this and was like “SEPULTURA! Hell yeah! Let’s rock!” Then a few songs in my old man kicked in and was thinking…he really does scream this whole time, eh? Would just a little bit of a melodic break. Love the Brazilian influences with the metal. It’s just a lot for a full album. And this was long. 2.5
Doubt their target audience is middle aged men on stationary bikes… but if it works, it works. Not as amazing once off bike and chillin but still pretty solid stuff. I bet the lead singer has to drink a lot of tea with honey. 3.25/5
Hell yeah
The "tropical" metal sounds are great, but the tracks aren't that great. Enjoyable, but I doubt I will fully revisit this one.
Can’t even separate the music from those vocals. Different strokes for different folks, but a strong nope from me.
Not my thing.
I'm officially old as I can't handle this type of music anymore.
Nah I am good , I dislike that
One of my friends growing up loved Supultura. I probably only listened to a song here and there myself. Callie enjoyed this one and started to bob her head to the music immediately while eating breakfast. I’m a fan but won’t likely go out of my way to listen to this specific album again.
Wish they played more into that Aztec tribal sound, seemed like they only touched on it here or there and the rest was just hard-core moshing metal music. It was pretty damn great hard-core metal thrashing music, but it left me longing for a bit more. Im finally in a musical realm where I can sit through something like this and enjoy it. A few years back, I think this would sound too abrasive for me. But if im in the right mood, this shit would hit hard for me. 7/10
I really engaging metal album. I wish more of the beats got your head nodding, but I looked forward to listening each time I did. It was a little on the long side but didn't detract much. 3.7/5 -> 4/5
I loved this. Metal mood all day after
Just “No”
Why all the screaming? Who listens to this?
Always difficult for me to rate metal. I really would need to be in a very specific state of mind to enjoy it, but I think I appreciated this album more than many others. Fave Tracks: Ratamahatta, Born Stubborn, Itsari 3.6/5
Finally a break from the countless indie bands that plague this list. This was pretty decent metal, I hope to find more like it on the list.
Very cool indeed, a different kind of rock that is more unique to the earbuds than the other albums on this list
BANGER!! never thought id be listening to brazilian groove metal (lie) (i knew id love this as soon as i saw the album cover) I FW THIS HEAVY. Genuinely tempted to add the entire album to my favourites playlist. (added basically the entire thing god help us all) I WISH I COULD RATE HIGHER
Yeesh, sorry 1 star. Couldn't make it through the growl-screaming
Back when this came out I would have hated it. I had no taste for the death metal growls/screams and cookie monster vocals. I've since developed the necessary callouses to appreciate it. As a result, I'm able to appreciate this album far more than I would have 30 years ago. This album grooves hard. The inclusion of traditional Brazilian percussion and the collaboration with an indigenous tribe from the interior of Brazil helps this album stand apart. 5 stars
I didn't hate it, but I didn't like it
RATING: 7.5/10 HIGHLIGHT: Ratamahatta LOWLIGHT: Cut-Throat
nope nope nope you cannot convince me to like this and I listened to all 1 hour and 12 mins of this. so much throaty screaming... i don't wanna hear it! also just like random sounds are just playing at times?
Sounded fun and different.
I have never been so happy at the end of an album. Pure torture.
The ethic rhythms that are sprinkled in are a nice touch, but a bowl of vomit with a diamond tossed in is still just a bowl of vomit.
BH É QUEM? BH É NOIS DISGRAÇA dito isso: quando eu era metaleiro tr00 metais curtia pra caralho todos os álbuns dos caras menos o roots nisso aproveitei pra escutar tudo do sepultura até o roots, e de fato, dá uma baixada no nível na minha humilde opinião claro q revolucionou ao trazer elementos NACIONAIS, mas a sonoridade não me pega nem 1 pouco
BH PORRAAAAAAAA SEGURA O METAL MINEIRO IHAAAAAAAAA concordo com o amigo, esse eh o piorzim deles. fico mto triste pq eles incorporam os batuques indígenas de maneira legal. daí vão lá e se misturam com a laia do nu metal. vai tomar no cu. deixando isso de lado, eu costumava dormir ouvindo esse qdo tinha 2 anos xD. eh mediano mas eh bom pra dormir.
Started out gaining my interest then slowly fell off
The beats aren’t awful, but the incessant metal growling is.
I think I just don't really like extremely heavy music
Solid album and a refreshing change from all the female solo artists on this list who sing about broken hearts. The critics seem to favor certain archetypes and honor those above diversity of genres.
Pretty good
Admittedly, I was initially concerned about the 72 minute runtime but this album really impressed me. It wasn’t your standard metal album, Sepultura was keeping it interesting throughout, mixing in some indigenous influences and leaning into their Brazilian influences, hence the title “Roots”. This album opens with the fantastic, Roots Bloody Roots and sets the table pretty well. A couple tracks in, I was thinking their sound was very reminiscent of early KoRn and sure enough Ross Robinson produced this record two years after producing KoRn’s self-titled debut. Jonathan Davis even makes an appearance on Lookaway. Again, this was just a bit different than what I’d heard and I’m here for it. Good stuff here, 4 stars
I like heavy metal but the singing or yelling was terrible. The playing was like bad numetal. So they added some Brazilian roots music in here. Sure it could work but for me it didn’t. Now I will say this. I’m glad this is on the list while I didn’t necessarily enjoy this. It’s good to hear things that I would have never heard or even tried to listen to.
Well this was... something. I neither enjoyed it nor hated it. Some bizarre songs, some extremely heavy songs and whatever the hell Canyon Jam is meant to be. It was an experience, I just don't think it was one I'd be in a rush to have again.
Classic 3. Good at times, bad at times, but not really my thing
To me, "nu metal" and "butt metal" are synonymous. I know korn are likely lurking on this list somewhere, and that will be a miserable day for this listener. However, although the sounds here are on first blush indistinguishable from that other late 90s garbage, there are some interesting elements here and there that surface through the rest of the sound. Just not my jam, in general. Moving on.
Listening to the start while working on a laptop: too much. Listening while splitting firewood: hell yeah!
Metal!! This was fun. Thank you!
Great start to the week!! 5 (I'll ignore the ridiculously long drone jam at the end) 🥴
Was prepared to give this the benefit of the doubt as I'm not a big heavy metal fan. But it's nearly an hour and a quarter long of ear-bleeding dull heavy metal and then with a final hidden instrumental track,Canyon Jam, that just meanders and goes nowhere for 13 minutes. Glad this one is now one (star) and done.
Good album, not one of my favorite heavy but still good
Music to split your head open to, devoid of musicality.
In my music listening life, and proving true in this project, metal is by far my least favorite genre. In the summary section on this site, my ratings for all the other types of music are close to or above a 3.5. For metal it's right around a 2.5 and most of the albums I've listened to have been below that. With that being said, I was not looking forward to this record at all. The only saving grace was that it seemed interesting based on the Wikipedia information. I was quickly able to form an opinion on this from the get go, and it never changed. Lyrically this was interesting. Of course without having the words in front of me I'd have no clue if that was true or not. Musically this was a very interesting, intriguing, and at times exciting record. The melding of metal and Brazilian music was very cool. But the singing (shrieking) was awful. Every song that had any singing was ruined because of it. Ratamahatta would have been an awesome song without it. The only two songs I actually enjoyed were Jasco and Itsári. I hate to say it, but this album will only get a two rating thanks to the shrieking. If that aspect was more tolerable, this could have been a five.
Roots I really hated Arise, but I was interested to hear this having read that they incorporated traditional Brazilian folk and tribal music and instrumentation, as well as a focus on Brazilian heritage and history in the lyrics. To be honest I struggled to pick out anything in the lyrics, such is the metal vocal style and the preponderance of him growling ‘shit’ every other line. Musically the Brazilian influences are rather sporadic and are too often swamped by the turgid and bog standard thrash/death/nu metal tropes. Ratamahatta and Breed Apart were perhaps the most successful at this blend, but they still get lost in the morass of heaviness. Arise was a 1, but I think this is just a 2, it’s not really my thing overall, but I can appreciate there is at least some sense of thematic ambition. But having said that, metal is such a deeply conservative genre that even the smallest deviation from the doltish norm can appear revolutionary and inventive, and I think that is probably the case with this to a certain extent. 🫚🫚 Playlist submission: Breed Apart
This is certainly a step up from the abject 'Arise'. What hasn't changed are the really hackneyed and terrible lyrics that say absolutely nothing; agonised platitudes about not following orders and a war is coming and so on. 'Roots Bloody Roots', delivered with a guttural scream, really brings home the frustration of having dry hair. Quite a blast for an opening track. 'Dusted' is also a towering track, huge riff, even if no focus on the 'rootsy' side of things. The thrash-led numbers tail off towards the end, culminating in the pointless 'Dictatorshit'. But the thematic focus of pairing metal with Brazilian roots music is the most interesting aspect. Several tracks are too rich for my blood, but there's an interesting traditional theme running throughout which breathes new life into what is a rigidly dull genre. It just shades three.
My favourite dismembering a body album (3.5/5.0)
Roots Bloody Roots
3.7 Great but over long, like a lot of mid/late 90s albums were.
Absolutely hated the vocals on this, the instrumentation saves it from getting a 1
I have to be in the mood for Sepultura … today was not that day
This album was my biggest revelation when I first tried this challenge 5 years ago. I though "will I still like it?" and yes! Given, you need to lean into the screams, but then the payoff is enormous: the guitar riffs, the beats, the signature changes in midst of the song. Epic album!
NO
Pitié non non no
This was pretty good. It would be a solid 4 if not because of the length. I enjoyed the percussion in some of the tracks and I like how they show some of their Brazilian heritage. Some songs I liked: "Roots Bloody Roots" (the most famous single and probably my favourite track in the album), or "Ratamahatta". I'd also like the more instrumental tracks or even interludes, like: "Jasco", "Itsári", or "Canyon Jam".
More heavy metal yes this is my favorite 0/5
Not my genre
Ugh metal, gross. Yeah this was horrible. Had to skip through almost every song
This has more craft and, unironically, roots to it than a lot of metal albums, but it’s seriously lacking in melody and dynamics. Put another way, there are no hooks and it’s all a bunch of loud chugging aside from a couple acoustic instrumentals. I respect it, but I don’t really like it.
Heavy. Not my favorite heavy band, but a definite classic by one of the greats.
Not for me but appreciate the musical quality
I mean the instruments were good
1. ROOTZ - 2 2. attitude - 1 3. cut - 2 4. rata - 2 5. breed - 2 6. hate - 1 7. zpit - 2 8. look - 2 9. duzted - 2 10. born - 2 11. jazco - 1 12. itzari - 1 13. ambuzh - 1 14. zpeciez - 1 15. dictator - 2 16. jam - 0
I usually hate this, but the instrumentals gave it a few extra points for me; especially the outro, which I loved.
Being a lifelong metal fan with a strobg dislike for the growling kind if metal my range of consumable music either in concerts or asrecords has always been extremely limited. I knew there was a world of music outthere for me I very much enjoyed the instrumentals and solos and base tracks of but couldn't stand the shrieking. I knew the band name, I knew the album art (fantastic btw.) and after 10sec I wanted to stop but somehow I kept listening. By Itsári I thought for the first time "I might listen to this again". By Endangered Species I started understanding the lyrics. And what a gem Canyon Jam is. This album opened my ears for a huge part of my favourite genre. Easy 5* just for that.
Har tålt tidens tann bedre enn annen metal fra denne perioden. Den eneste låta jeg ikke liker er Lookaway, som blir litt vel mye nu-metal'ete.
Fett! Noe av det bedre innen "new metal". En sjanger i vanligvis ikke tåler. Men ka e greia med lengden på de her type albuma?? E så sinsykt mye filler. Hadde vært dritkult om man komprimerte til 30-40 min.
Ikke min sjanger, og de fleste låtene hørtes ganske like ut. Godt trøkk, det skal de ha.
6/10
1.5 Really unpleasant. I think I actually like the last Sepultra album (many years ago) pretty okay. But one Sepultra album probably is enough. This is a couple years later, and sees them moving away from their thrash/power metal style. You can literally HEAR the nu-metal creeping into their sound, and it’s awful! There’s also some world music influences that sound more pretentious than interesting. While well-produced, the length of this album (well over an hour) makes everything start to just mush together. There’s not enough highlights to make the album stand out, and all the songs eventually just kinda mush together into one long bit of noise. You get to the final track, thank god, then see it’s THIRTEEN MINUTES LONG, and turns out most of that thirteen minutes is just ambient sound. Really tests your patience.
Shit slaps.
i liked the groove parts but i’m giving this a 2 because i don’t think i would reach for this album in my daily life
Pretty dope album. Fav Tracks: Roots Bloody Roots, Ratamahatta, Jasco, Itsári
Prime example of why first impressions are important because after the first two songs I almost dropped the album, but I decided to give it some grace and I’m glad that I did. Really cool experimental fusion album that was executed pretty solidly all things considered.
Scary hard. Nope.
Can't deny the talent or the insane amount of headbanging momentum contained in here. I just think the other 98% of people will insist they don't need to hear this before they die. Objectively bad choice to include here imo, this will be unlistenable to most.
At first I thought “oh boy another wannabe badass metal album.” But by the end of it, it was so much more. Honestly it was just a good album and even though I didn’t find the title track as interesting as many made it to be, the rest was original and probably be what I’ll be playing over and over again. Good solid 4.
I just can't stand metal vocals like this. Redeeming tracks: Ratamahatta, Jasco, Itsári, Canyon Jam More Brazilian tribal, less metal please.
Dejansko nič ne poznam od Sepulture (razen, k sm zadnjič pogruntala, da očitno poznam vsaj en komad, k je cover od U2 - "Bullet the Blue Sky"). TIL, da so Brazilci. (Uf, pa 72 minut.) "Roots Bloody Roots" mi je kr kul. "Ratamahatta" je fakin hud!! So far, this is not a bad time. "Itsári" je basically chanting od Xavante tribea & Led Zeppelin. Kr kul. "Canyon Jam" je ful eksperimentalen. Nism tok fan zvokov streljanja. Kul! Zanimivo. Un komad al dva bom zihr še poslušala.
The tribal instrumentation and guitar riffs really elevate this metal record. Opening track really gets the blood pumping. But he's going to need a throat lozenge after all this screaming.
Metal is still not for me. I caught moments I like but this was overshadowed by the singing and loudness
Nu metal, raging, with some Brazilian influences. Maybe I would have enjoyed this more on a different day - but on this rare, beautiful sunny day, it was a chore to listen to.
woke up ar 3 and couldnt fall back asleep, listened to this, nodded off in the last track. feel like i gotta get into nu metal, was listening to a chat pile interview where they were talking abt korn... my new favorite band and one of my oldest favorite bands tied by a golden thread... anyway this is cool idk what else to say i get why all those guys in my high school had the shirts. its almost like ambient and math rocky while still being something korn can do guest vocals on no problem. fave tracks breed apart, born stubborn, canyon jam
I think that this might be the first metal album assigned to me. I own a box set of the albums with Max Cavalera, so this is not new to me as an album. I'm not generally a fan of this more groove style almost new metal style of album, but this is definitely an exception. (Listening to the album again leads me to recognize that the thrash roots of the band are still evident and there are sludgy elements and influences from hardcore that distinguish this record from new metal.) The record has a moody and even apocalyptic tone to it. It's slower than the band's earlier records but that only contributes to mood and intensity. It really is an effort to use the genre as a condemnation of the long history of colonial violence. I really love the additional percussion that often makes this album work so well. I admire the attempt to incorporate indigenous elements, but I'm not always sure that it coheres all the time. It's definitely interesting though.
1.1/5 Heavy Metal is not a genre that I can listen to a lot. A few songs here and there I don't mind but a full album is too much for me. I thought the first half of the album was pretty decent but the 2nd half just fell off a cliff for me.
Didn't think I'd enjoy this as much as I did. Proper heavy nu-metal stuff, with lyrics about things that actually matter like the environment instead of just "I hate my stepdad". The production is insane, the use of traditional Brazilian instruments amongst the chaos grounds the whole thing, and I found myself properly head-banging. Awesome! Favourite track: Lookaway Least favourite track: Jasco
I didn't know that Sepultura was from Brazil...maybe if I could understand their lyrics through the screaming I could have figured that out. 15 year old me remembers listening to this in the weight room, but it wasn't as good as the other metal I was into at the time. 43 year old me doesn't have the stomach for this kind of nonsense anymore.
Best Brazilian export since churrasco. Fuckin awesome, if a bit long \m/
One of the albums on this project where my struggle between rating objective quality or enjoyment of the listening experience was sharpest but the brutal, relentlessly unpleasant slog of this listening experience won out. Hated every second of it.
I listened to this on a drive home from work - this was a good decision because the album slaps way more than I expected. Like most people I was only really aware of "Roots Bloody Roots" which after hearing the whole thing, might be one of the weaker songs on the album. The sound reminded me of some earlier Machine Head, even a bit like Korn at times. I also heard some influence on Ill Nino - another Latin American metal group. It shows that these guys were more the real deal than I initially gave credit for. One of my only real gripes is the album could have been a bit shorter. Nonetheless, I'm giving this a 5.
Love how brutal these guys are. Just pulsing and pounding, hard-hitting music, full of energy and passion. The last track, "Canyon Jam", is particularly unique as it feels like listening to a historic, native ritual. I like this record a lot.
energetic, powerful. a bit long?
I was disappointed in this. I generally like scream style vocals in metal but these vocals seem a bit put on during some parts, like a caricature of metal scream vocals. Doesn't do it for me. The guitars are the most disappointing part, almost nothing interesting happening. They seem like pretty run of the mill, drop d chugging metal parts that I could probably play (and I don't play metal at all). Not that every moment needs to be a flashy display of technical proficiency but maybe sometimes? Or at least something interesting? The drummer is the stand out and I like the way the drums sound a lot. I guess the simpler style makes it more accessible and that's why it was such a huge seller? I use to do sound at a metal venue and I feel like most local Toronto bands I saw out play these guys.
Det var en fed oplevelse. Det var nok det Slipknot gerne ville have været. Der var også noget Korn, og ret mange fede elementer. Det sidste nummer er dog en gigantisk filler som bør skippes.
En kraftudladning der samtidig dormår at være interessant i temposkift og alternative valg af instrumenter
I've listened to this album before but tbh I kinda forgot about this band and it was nice to rediscover them
No, do not like
Sepultura definitely went mor into their nu metal bag on this one, they have much better stuff but this is definitely still pretty solid. Roots Bloody Roots is great
⭐⭐⭐ Inte min go to genre men det funkar. Slås av att jag gillar trummorna på många låtar och tycker om de brasilianska inslagen. Det blir en 3a. Bäst är Roots bloody roots, Ratamahatta, Breed apart, Born stubborn, Itsari och Canyon jam
Love this album. Brutal, but manages to include huge dynamic range. The inclusion of more Brazilian elements elevates it above their previous work, but the songwriting and playing is also at another level. Some people seem to have a problem with the singing, but it absolutely fits and lifts the music
I can understand where the hype comes from, a lot of these songs were built around some pretty solid riffs, but I really didn’t enjoy this very much. And maybe it’s cause I was a little distracted cause I was writing my friend Justen a letter, and maybe it’s because my expectations were too high because my dad loved these guys, but it just didn’t click with me. I thought a lot of the songs meandered past their natural end point, and it really stretches what is already a very long album. I think this could’ve been like an incredible 45 minute album, but instead it’s a subpar 70 minutes. I just think we’ve heard better metal before and since. Favorites: Attitude, Spit, Itsari
Guttural growling with cool drums. Not for me but I can appreciate the appeal.
I don't really think we needed two Sepultura albums on the list, especially while so many important Metal bands are completely absent. At least they are quite different from one another. One is a more straightforward Thrash album, while this one goes in a Groove Metal and Nu Metal direction. I guess this was some sort of turning point for the band's sound and remains controversial among their audience. I liked this one a fair bit more, the Brazilian Music influence on it made it stand out. Key tracks: Roots Bloody Roots Ratamahatta
Ersatz rebels. Music is too polished. Great production though.
canyon jam was kind of offensive ngl
Omdat het cool was niet omdat ik heb genoten
This is #day672 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… so we're staying in Brazil for one more day. Yesterday it was psychedelic pop from 1968, and today it's nu/groove metal from 1995. I've known the band's name for a long time, but never really got around to checking them out properly. Being a huge Deftones fan, I was at least familiar with "Headup," featuring Max Cavalera on vocals. Otherwise, this is my first time listening to a Sepultura album front to back. What can I say? Roots bloody roots! Let it be a 3 out of 5. Looking forward to #day673.
Not for me
You know those grinding sounds at the end? That was actually me grinding my teeth together after listening to 72 minutes of shit.
Eh. Not my type of thing
Rarely happens, but I couldn't get past track 3.
Det är något konstigt med mig och de mer extremare formerna av metal. Jag kan gilla en låt eller en serie låtar. Men jag blir sällan tillräckligt engagerad för att lägga på minnet något om låten – titel, artist, album ... Jag är inte intresserad av att hitta på den igen och mycket snart är den glömd. Dt är inte ens så att jag känner igen låtar jag hört förut. Det är som att det bara är brus, trevligt brus, men brus. En tvåa
A solid 4.5 but I can’t give half stars. I love metal fusion, I feel like it’s truly one of the most versatile genres, and infusing Brazilian traditional music with it felt so right.
Nope.
6.5/10 Needed several listens to get into and even then I never really connected with it. The rhythms are very interesting and all, but I would like some more human emotion (or alternatively maybe a catchy song that sticks?) Highlight: Ratamahatta
Pretty unique with some of the Brazilian spin, cool riffs, I could definitely listen to more of this.
Aweful!!
All this hooting and hollering for heavy metal is too much for me. I was not a fan.
Que mal mood
What a weirdly wonderful mix of music. Starts off as some quite run of the mill heavy metal bordering on screamo, as ever accompanied by great heavy guitar but the vocals are annoying. Then the transition phase where you start to get drums and vocals drifting in a very different direction, a tribal feel but with occasional discordant sound effects. Gunfire as music, but a touch different to the 1812 Overture. Towards the end you get what seems to be a couple of songs that bear no resemblance to the original songs, before you’re dragged back in by Canyon Jam. Fundamentally weird but enjoyable in an unhinged sort of way.
Did Korn get lost in the jungle, get drugged and then form a heavy metal band with their new friends? You know when you get one of those really satisfying burps that you seem to conjure up from the depths of your stomach and you somehow manage to straight pipe that gas out of there. It has resonance and depth and is not too dissimilar to some of the spoken vocal thrashes on this at times. It's spectacular. "Ratamahatta" is maximum tribal energy and not intended as insulting but was slightly amusing at times. It reminds me of the little bitey Wachootoo warrior in Ace Ventura When Nature Calls running around making biting noises (not exclusively and not a complaint). I think the musical cultural fusions are what makes this. It adds complexity and changing tempo which some heavy metal lineups fail to achieve. The heaviness is a rock meditation, and that works because it can elevate the mundane and BECAUSE of its juxtaposition of normal sounds and tempo. When you combine them well, it achieves exactly that and this combo is an even more interesting and novel collaboration of sound. I do like to addle my mind musically at times and did enjoy this onslaught. Just wish they kept the fusion predominantly and not the complete deviations with the influence at times. In the end it made it feel like 2 albums mashed together and there was leakage at each end (and too long).
Did I expect to be listening to some Brazilian heavy metal today? No, I did not. But was it a pleasant surprise? Well kind of... This is exactly the type of weird shit I was hoping for when I started this project and I am happy to have listened to it. That said, I doubt I will ever listen to it again. At least not in it's entirety. There were some solid heavy metal moments and I liked the tribal elements that are scattered through the album. No single track jumped out to grab me but it was all fairly agreeable metal noise. It's also way too long and the final track can be avoided unless you want to hear what it sounds like when a man takes ritalin and decides to build a raft out of oil barrels in his garage.
I bought this album when it came out, and it blew my mind. Listening to it again it's doing the same. There's so much going on, and so much atmosphere and raw creativity.
The things I have to say ahout the metal genre would get me canceled even anonymously.
Este disco fue un antes y despues
Good instrumentals but the shouting got so tiring.
More enjoyable than I expected, but this is the last time I will listen to this. ★★★
Not my kind of thing. However there were some interesting instruments used, excellent production values and I actually acclimatised my ears so I was eventually able to understand the 'singer' I can say I've heard it and kind of enjoyed it
I knew this album was gonna be a treat with a cover like that 🤘.
Pretty dope album. Nice change up form all of the British rock this list is plagued with. Always appreciate something unique and new to me.
Not my genre at all, the gutteral throat shouting is just rough vocals to listen to for a hour. The traditional sounds at the end were interesting, but nowhere near enough to improve the score here.
Good heavy metal with a great theme that the band should have leveraged to a greater extend in their percussion and overall songwriting. The Brazilian "musical textures" don't feel like an overarching theme that underpins the entire album, but rather a concept that appears here and there. I also don't enjoy the harsh vocals and would have preferred some tonal variety in the singing. The instrumental arrangements, while dense and energetic, also become repetitive through each song and lack technicality; however, I believe that may simply be a feature of 90's nu-metal influenced music. Nevertheless, I appreciate the band's dedication to their expression of Brazilian culture and heritage in their music, and enjoyed the writing and production of this album that doesn't seek only to find mass public appeal, but a genuine creation of quality for fans of their music.
I remember the album cover but never really listened to it. It's good. If you don't like metal you probably won't like it. I'm not sure what version of metal it goes into, seriously there are 100 kinds of metal. I'm thinking because you can clearly hear the lyrics, even though you might not be able to understand the language, Sepultura is from Brazil. They hit hard and fast and not knowing the language for some of the songs doesn't matter. Solid album. It makes me wish I was younger and seeing them live from the pit. Just a great metal album.
Overall Rating - 2.16/5 (4.31/10). Mostly a bunch of dissonant screaming over OK guitar and bass playing.
очень хорошо. сохранил.
I know the move away from thrash and dalliance with nu-metal turned off many Sepultura fans but I discovered them at a very nu-metal time of my life, so it seemed fine to me at the time. The seams do show with certain songs, like Lookaway which is incredibly dated, complete with Jonathan Davis and Mike Patton assists. Igor's fills on Attitude rock my ass. Dictatorshit leans into Max's hardcore influences and I wish there was more of it.
I quite like their music. I’d be a lot happier without the harsh vocals though.
I liked the instruments and concept of the album but the screaming vocals I can't get past.
More “music” for the torture chamber. There were a couple of tracks in the second half that didn’t include Satan screaming at me, so I would give those three stars. And there was no Satanic vocalist in the last track, Canyon Jam, but it wasn’t a jam at all… just a bunch of jungle noises, long and boring. I forced myself to listen to a minimum of one minute of each track, but it was sheer agony. I am about halfway through this list, and this makes my list of the five worst so far. One star for this piece of crap.
Sepultura are a Brazilian metal band who decided to incorporate their indigenous roots into this album. The idea is good. The execution is mango ice cream with tomato sauce — each element fine on its own, but served together in a cone, which as my daughter would say, is so ein Quatsch. The metal sections are heavy and competent. The indigenous sections are interesting. They don't talk to each other. They just take turns. Where you might expect something genuinely hybrid — the two things bleeding into each other, like Kendrick folding jazz into hip-hop until you can't tell where one ends — here you get a metal song, then an indigenous interlude, then a metal song. The seams show. 2/5 — good ingredients, wrong recipe.
My thoughts exactly when I listened to this: *Roots Bloody Roots starts* Man, this is awesome! The riffs, the aggression! Why don't I listen to metal more often! *10 minutes later* Huh, well, this sounds all the same. Starting to get on my nerves already. *10 minutes later* Give... me... melodies and harmonies... *puts on Beatles* To be fair, I returned later, and the mixing of metal riffs and growls with Brazilian tribal percussion was awesome. But the point stands. 2.5/5 - okay-ish
Uh it's like doing this project is basically reinforcing how much both prog rock and metal just aren't really for me. I listened to as much of this as I can stand because I think there's some interesting things happening musically, but the vocals are just so painful to listen to. Kinda the opposite of prog rock where I like the vocals/lyrics sometimes, but the music is not it for me. 🤔
Metal is not by thing- nothing to sing along to. I don't understand how it doesn't just destroy their voices. I recognize the talent, but this album was a grit my teeth and try to make it through.
Don’t like this
I listened to the album in its entirety for the first time, and it is, without a shadow of a doubt, a solid 5. Beyond that, it also made me wonder if I haven’t been giving too many 5s to a whole series of albums that I didn’t enjoy as much as I enjoyed this one. Definitely an album to listen to before my journey in this world comes to an end ;-) Favorite songs: all of them - it’s impossible to pick just one! Still, I’d especially highlight Ratamhatta, Roots Bloody Roots, Itsári, and Canyon Jam
Whether you dorks are willing to admit it or not, heavy metal and indigenous cultures have been trading ideas since the 70s. Metal has always been counter culture, and that includes being anti-capital, anti-colonization and anti-fascist. Everyone has the right for self determination. Regarding the music itself, this album is fuckin' bonkers. The groovy, distorted guitar riffs are probably the highlight here, but damn if those drums aren't doing some heavy lifting. The polyrhythms inspired by indigenous music on tracks like Ratamahatta are just fuckin' killer. This whole album is firing on all cylinders, its easy to see how bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit and Slipknot would take heavy inspiration from this album for their own sounds. Even if Nu-metal isn't your thing, give this album a try. It's such a great execution of a great idea, if you're a fan of music at all, you should be able to appreciate what Sepultura have done here.
Generic rock.
Of all the possible genres available, I was pleasantly surprised to find Brazilian metal on the list today. I’m not normally a fan of the guttural screaming singing style - I get a sort of misophonic reaction similar to hearing someone retching. However, in the case of vocalist and lead guitarist Max Cavalera, it’s not too bad and I can actually make out most of what he’s singing without using a lyrics guide. Aside from the vocals, the music is great, incorporating traditional Brazilian and tribal sounds with the usual doom laden guitars and bass lines. I particularly enjoyed the tracks featuring Xavente chants recorded on location in the Brazilian interior. This is definitely a case of cultural celebration rather than appropriation giving this album a unique atmosphere. Great stuff!
I’ve never really given Sepultura a chance. I must have heard something years ago and decided I didn’t like them, and just never really revisited. And while I’m still not a huge fan of the vocals - wow, I finally understand why they’re such a beloved metal band! They incorporate sounds atypical to the genre without losing anything that makes them metal as fuck. Would I listen to this all the time? I would not. But can I see myself sometime down the road, if I’m in the right mood, popping this on? Hell yes I can.
The vocals are harsher than I generally prefer, but man, this has a really sweet metal GROOVE. Several times I started almost involuntarily bobbing my head to the riffs. The incorporation of traditional Brazilian instruments is really cool. "Attitude", "Straighthate", and "Itsari" are standouts.
It's both very commercial/as expected and doing something unexpected.
Me tuve que tomar una aspirina después de esto. Creo que solo es que este género no es lo mío.
lo intenté escuchar y no pude, el metal no es para mí
3.5/5
Esta música me da miedo
Deep riffs, excellent percussion. At points it’s a bit too choppy and intense but overall a good throaty album.
This was very different. The metal was metal, I did not know that metal already sounded like this so long ago. Felt like Slipknot was influenced by it. Also the noises and „tribal“ elements incorporate din the music, that was very special.
This was a very intense album and I don't know if I like it. I kind of didn't really mind the instrumentals of the first song, before things got really bad, but as a whole, I am not a huge fan of the album, so I am giving it a low rating, but I know that there are people out there who enjoy that kind of music.
I enjoyed quite a lot of the music but the “singing” is just silly. A bit of shouting at times can be fine but it was just annoying and ruined a lot of the songs.
Right bloody onslaught. Ratamahatta was like a brazilian salsa dance off. Roots bloody roots is class. Full album doesnt know when to stop. Dynamically its just loud start to finish.
The music is good and the album as a whole is great! The screaming shouting vocals dont do anything for me I get it works for this music, but just not my vibe!
I liked it rbh. Gutteral throaty nonsense. With ballsy music. Guts, throat and balls. Think rhats how they play their instruments I liked the songs i couldnt understand the lyrics of more, bit like Rammstein. When I understand the lyrics theyre a bit shite. Parts sounded Korn esque. Which i appreciated. Full album is too much but the odd song would be right on.
I can appreciate heavy music now and then but didn’t enjoy this
This one is pretty top-heavy, purely in terms of the singles. I would probably consider this album better than the other Sepultura one that appears on this list, the group matured a bit after all. In fact, the group literally went back to their roots and met an indigenous tribe in Brazil during the recording process, which then gave them some inspiration for this album's content. The rhythmic drumming and guitar are adept per usual. There's just...a lot of everything. It gets grating as a certain point unfortunately. The instrumentals were an interesting change of pace at least.
Avoided this for a long time (except for the title track) due to my understanding that it indulged in “nu metal” tendencies. Pleasantly surprised by the listen. The Brazilian rhythms were sublime, and the grooves were on point. I wish Jonathan Davis didn’t get a track, and I may still prefer the earlier stuff, but nevertheless, this is a surprisingly easy listen. Also, the drum sound reminds me of Helmet.
mmm i didn't enjoy it as much as i thought i would
This is some heavy shit. Like REALLY heavy shit. It’s aggressive, in your face and an absolute assault on the ears. The musicianship is actually really good & interesting - the riffs and drumming are amazing in places, but it’s the vocals that are just too much for me. I’ve never been a huge metal head, especially screamo - to me the screaming ruins the music. It’s not necessarily a criticism as I know that some people would love this, but it’s just not my cup of tea so I can’t rate this more than a 5/10.
Whoa, hard no. I don't get the screamy thing, and this is full of screamy. The music isn't terrible, but together makes my ears bleed and my brain hurt.
I love this album. The mix of metal and tribal makes this go harder than it should. So many good drum parts. Ratamahatta in particular was always a stand out, but I blared this whole album plenty of times. Closing with the peaceful Canyon Jam is a stark change from what preceded it, but it still makes sense.
Thrash metal has got to be one of the most frustrating genres of music to listen to, along with jazz and country. You have a lot of talent in the room, but they insist on using it for evil. There are generally outstanding drummers and some fantastic guitar work, but everything has to be turned up to 11, sped up to comical proportions just because, and then, even when you find there's a decent groove going on, the idiot with the mic opens his throat and yells over the top of it like a howler monkey with emphysema. It's almost like they think lyrics are so cringe they have to ruin them just in case anyone goes 'aww those were nice words'. I'd probably award this 4 stars if it ended around the 40 minute mark and didn't have vocals. But it doesn't and it does. So I didn't.
I was not previously familiar with the artist or album. This is some pretty intense metal. The instrumentation is pretty good, but I really do not care for the harsh vocals. The vocals are such a put off for me that I could not get through the album. I will not come back to this one.
Buen sonido, magnífico, pero algo que no soporto en el metal es cuando no hay vocals melódicos. Entiendo los guturales, pero CANTA (y sí soy una ignorante quizás). Me recuerda tantooo a tG el estilo. Breed apart y la fusión con música brasilera? pfff. Me aturde un poco cuando canta jaja
304/1001 Sepultra - Roots Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❓ There's definitely some interesting stuff going on here, particularly the slower drum based parts. This isn't really my thing, but I didn't have a bad time with it.
I am partial to a screamo album from time to time, and I like the variety of traditional Brazilian aboriginal elements. It definitely is unique and that's a good point in its favour. Saying that there's not a lot that really stuck with me here, the theme of culture and preserving nature are strong but I don't find myself really connecting to how it's communicated. It lacks a little something to push it over the edge. Fav Track: Ratamahatta
way too long
Lots of toe-tapping', finger snappin' little ditties on this album, and when the vocals hit, I'm up on my feet and a dancin' like Elaine from Seinfeld.
se fosse um thrash comum eu daria uma 2, pois não faz meu estilo, mas como é um thrash com elementos brasileiros e duas faixas com tribos xavantes estarei dando 3. aqui é brasil, porra!!!
I am only familiar with their name from reading heavy metal magazines. Didn't even know they were Brazilian until reading the Wiki this morning. I'm not really in a heavy metal mood, but we shall see how this goes... *Music starts* OK, not too bad... * Vocals start* Oh lord, not this crap. This is going to be a struggle. I REALLY don't like the guttural death-metal screaming. The music is actually OK as long as the dude isn't scream-vomiting. Rating this will be tough, as it is a genre I have no interest in so I don't really feel qualified to judge it. But good lord do I hate this "singing." How can I give it anything other than 1 star? I will say this for it: about 5 songs in, it didn't bother me as much anymore. But I don't think this was so much a matter of me starting to like it as it was me just getting numb to it or being able to tune it out. My three favorite songs - BY FAR - were the instrumentals.
This is terrible. What are we even doing here? Imagine Slip Knot except with less interesting guitar playing and no second vocalist who can do something other than scream (I think the other thing is called “singing”). Also Slip Knot was successful at creating driving energy that your body can connect to. It’s the kind of energy that makes you want to jump in the pit and hit someone. This tries to do that and fails. The third track Ratamahatta is decidedly less terrible than tracks 1,2, &4 (that’s as far as I got) but a single 2 star track does not make a 2 star record. I award this no points and we are all slightly dumber for having listened to it.
Seems like they are good at what they do. But what they do is most certainly not for me. The music ... I'm ambivalent about. But then the vocals start and it's time to skip to the next song. And there are so, so many of them ... Patience rewarded -- Jasco and Itsari are unexpected oases of beauty in a stormy sea of yelling and ear-splitting turbulence.
Growing up in the 80s, metal was the sound of my oppressors. I fucking hated metal, with a passion born out of fear and hate. So yeah, I missed Sepultura entirely. In 1994, a friend in Chicago played a tape of Cannibal Corpse for me... and I thought, this is literally the sound of demons screaming in hell. I was playing Quake at the time; its raw metal music was the perfect soundtrack to twitch-hack limbs off of zombies, or get disemboweled by a leaping demon that was just about unkillable at first. Music to flood my entire consciousness with adrenalized fear and hate--fun! It sounds like Sepultura must have heard Cannibal Corpse, as well. Fast forward to 2026, and at 55, I can honestly say, I love this band! I banged my head to the whole thing, with just a whiff of the trauma Cannibal Corpse and Quake crystallized for me back in the day. Thanks guys!
Painful to my ears
Gave it a try, but they still suck.
Heavy, man.
Punishing groove/nu metal. The heavy, authentic Brazillian roots influences puts it above others of its time. A touch too long but, this slaps hard AF
This was cool! I personally would have preferred if it was slightly less heavy metal and slightly more Brazilian but I still enjoyed it!
p782.1996. 1.5 stars. Unpleasant, shouty death/trash metal that outstays its welcome reallll soon. Fun for about the first 3 minutes and then it just becomes annoying. Bonus half star for trying something different on two of the tracks.
No. Too heavy for me.
It wasn’t Ute Lemper bad, but it wasn’t good
This made me question if I actually like metal music. Hell, it made me question if I actually like music at all.
Auch wenn ich "Bloody Roots" kenne, ist das Album für mich unerträglich lauter Geschrei. Werde ich definitiv nicht nochmal hören. 1/5
Reminded me a lot of Slipknot. I liked this album and added all of the songs to my playlists.
This album stands out among the "nu metal" scene of the time. The incorporation of tribal rhythms and live recording with real tribes gives this an authenticity. Album art is insane.
Does it sound like Nu Metal? Yes. Is this bad? Yes. BUT: is it the best Nu Metal album ever recorded? Yes. Why is this you may ask and the answer is simple: the Brazilian influences! The percussion, the guitars, the Portuguese vocals. That’s what makes this record so special.
Phenomenal. One of the best metal albums ever. The absolute best of nu metal
the vocals are bad but the rest is too good for this to get rated a 3
I just can’t do nu Metal sorry man
90’s Nu Metal ⭐️Ratamahatta
Tough listen on a weekend Fave track: Straighthate
If I had to guess what percentage of this list are wasted spots it’d be 15%. This is a 15% album. 1/5
Goeie metal, goofy momenten
beetje te hard op de vocals, rest wel bieno
Imagine my surprise when I misread this as being an album by the band 'The Roots' and then hit play on the first song.
Sounds too much like a typical "cliché" metal album. Instrumentals are fine, but the vocals are just plain old groaning into the mic. Yeah, no, I've heard better.
By the mid-Nineties, heavy music was splintering into a hundred subgenres, and Sepultura arrived with Roots sounding determined to flatten the map. The Brazilian metal institution channels thrash, groove, industrial clang, and indigenous percussion into something primal and punishing — an album that feels less like a collection of songs than a sustained assault. Admirers will call it uncompromising. Skeptics may simply call it exhausting. There’s no denying the force of opener “Roots Bloody Roots,” which lands like a cinder block through a windshield. Beneath Max Cavalera’s near-indecipherable roar, the band locks into a muscular groove, while extra layers of percussion give the track a pulse that separates it from standard-issue metal bludgeoning. It’s the record’s clearest statement of purpose: rage with rhythm. Elsewhere, Roots is most interesting when it leans into that rhythmic experimentation. “Ratamahatta” is gloriously strange, all stuttering chants, vocal tics, and percussive bounce, suggesting a collision between Faith No More’s sense of absurdity and the then-emerging nu-metal scene. Mid-album detours like “Jasco” and “Itsári” offer a welcome breather, using acoustic guitar, tribal chanting, and hand percussion to create atmosphere rather than annihilation. But at more than 70 minutes, Roots asks a lot from listeners who aren’t already converted. The relentless barrage of downtuned riffs and barked vocals can blur together, and the album’s commitment to intensity often comes at the expense of dynamics. Even curiosities like the 13-minute “Canyon Jam” — a collage of crickets, percussion, and what sounds like gunfire — feel more admirable in concept than compelling in execution. Still, there’s real conviction here. Roots may not be an everyday listen for the uninitiated, but in smaller doses it works as formidable adrenaline music: passionate, punishing, and impossible to mistake for anything else.
Bostil metal
My original review is all is need to be said: "Kick ass Nu Metal! "Dusted" goes hard. I've always appreciated their tribal, Samba infused style. Respect." It goes hard, simple as.
Didn’t like this. Tried to like it, but it’s just too shouty. Music for spree killers.
This was an amazing album, this totally took me by surprise. I've been wanting to get more into these guys since I heard their Arise album (252 albums ago.) The vocals are incredible, they're just filled with pure anguish and anger. This album has some cool Brazilian tribal music elements, I really like the touch of it, always great when a metal band decides to stick it to the purists and does what they want with their sound (in this case a tribal-metal fusion.) And now to address the elephant in the room, the riffs. The groovy mid-tempo riffs featured on the album emit just plain meanness (like in "Straighthate" and "Endangered Species.") These guys sure do know how to make a riff or two. This was an enjoyable listen and it didn't seem to drag which is out of the norm for a first listen of a 70 minute album. Only the final track I didn't like, but I liked just about the rest. Highlight Song/s: "Roots Bloody Roots", "Attitude", "Cut-Throat" and "Straighthate"
Growlingly bad
Sepultura palasi juurilleen ja tuli luoneeksi jotain, mitä metallimusiikissa ei oltu aiemmin kuultu. Yhtye matkusti xavante-alkuperäiskansan luokse hakemaan inspiraatiota ja muutamia tuolloin nauhoitettuja kappaleita päätyi ihan levylle asti. Toinen keskeinen vaikuttaja oli 90-luvun puolivälissä tuloaan tehnyt nu metal, etenkin Deftonesin ja Kornin matalalle viritetyt junnaavat kitarariffit. Ja vieraileehan Kornin solisti Jonathan Davis Faith No Moren Mike Pattonin kera yhdessä kappaleessa, vaikka lopputulos ei olekaan niin hieno, mitä voisi odottaa. Roots on omaperäinen ja enimmäkseen toimiva kokonaisuus, joka vakiinnutti Sepulturan maineen merkittävimpänä brasilialaisena metalliyhtyeenä. Se jäi kuitenkin viimeiseksi ennen laulajakitaristi Max Cavaleran eroamista.
no me mola este estilo
Skipped several tracks - too Rah for me - Canyon Jam was10 mi utes of wondering if my speaker had broken or wondering if itcwas finished yet . Jasco and Itsari were actually listenable . I suppose albums like this are what this is all about . Shan't listen again though .
Two songs in and I can already rate, this is utter dogshit. Not sure I'm going to finish this.
Groovy!
I've heard bits and pieces from this album but never the whole thing before. I rather like it.
Yelling screaming metal. Hard pass. Best song: Ratamahatta
There are fillers and nobody needs a 13 minutes jam at the end but this album is a banger.
In the mid 90s, Death and Thrash metal had gotten increasingly popular with a lot of bands entering the mainstream with a crossover sound. This wasn't simply a matter of selling out though: Sometimes, pushing the narrow confines of the Death/Thrash/Grind genres could be a liberation and help bands to realize their full potential to create true masterpieces (think: Carcass - Heartwork). With Sepultura, it is even more complicated. Along the way from Arise over Beneath The Remains and Chaos AD to Roots, the became a better band, wrote better songs and produced better sounding albums. At the same time, the songs got groovier and somewhat simpler and crossed over into cringe territory with the inclusion of more and more tribal elements. It is a matter of discussion when they were at their peak, but on Roots they were definitely past their peak. The album sounds incredible: thick, juicy and precise at the same time. Some of the slower grooves are mesmerizing, but all in all, this is not a good album.
I put this on at work and then successfully dealt with a nine page spreadsheet, all hail Sepultura. This was one of the better metal albums I’ve heard and I’ll listen to it again.
Roots Bloody Roots Ratamahatta
I wasn't feeling this album at first, but it started to grow on me after the first couple of songs.
Good stuff, tribal metal sound Not sure if I had a favorite track but the whole album was consistent and awesome.
Maybe more of a two-leaning-three.
Why does this even exist.
Talk about diminishing returns. Two albums by these guys? I guess they get a 2 because the effort is palpable.
Rooooooots, bloody roots! This was part of the staple for heavy metal in the 90s, and for good reason. Listen to it loud, and let it wxplode into your head.
The music hits. Vocally, so far it seems like it’s a bit of a stretch to stress those vocal cords out as much as this guy does. He doesn’t have the right sound coming out. It’s just like having your dad yell at you because he thinks you’re gay but you just really like Taylor Swift’s music. After Ratamhatta or however you spell it, the album changed my mind. The vocals work, it takes some adjustment to my ear holes but it works.
nei danke, aber merci
Pfuuuui tüpfel Hed mi fast us de schueh grüehrt
Some interesting sounds mixed in. Overall I liked it.
Kind of interesting metal with a brazilian background at first, but got old quick