The recording sessions for SEPULTURA’s fifteenth studio album have commenced at Fascination Street Studios in Orebro, Sweden. The group have been working on the effort with producer Jens Bogren (Amon Amarth, Opeth) once again behind the boards, having previously worked together on 2017’s “Machine Messiah“. A 2020 release date is being planned with more info to come. For now the band have shared the following photos from the sessions thus far HERE.
From the mid-80s to the late-90s, bossa nova Brazil exported only one international thrash/death-metal combo, and that was Belo Horizonte’s finest: SEPULTURA, a band still running strong as of 2018, even if former leader Max Cavalera had uprooted to SOULFLY in ’97, leaving behind their mightiest LP achievement, “Roots”.
Formed in 1984 by brothers Max (vocals/guitar) and the younger Igor Cavalera (drums/percussion), alongside lead guitarist Jairo T (Guedz) and bassist Paulo Jr., the sludge-metal took their moniker from the MOTORHEAD song, “Dancing On Your Grave”; Sepultura meaning “grave” in Portuguese. Influenced largely by black metal bands such as VENOM, NWOBHM, as well as British punk, SEPULTURA were known to frequent the record shops of Sao Paulo, where they picked up platters by IRON MAIDEN, SLAYER, METALLICA and other emerging bands of the genre; their country now free from an oppressive, two-decade-long military dictatorship.
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