Roots

Artist: Sepultura
Label: Roadrunner Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016861890025
EAN: 0016861890025
ASIN: B000000H5K

Release Date: 1996-03-12

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Tracks:

Roots Bloody Roots
Attitude
Cut-Throat
Ratamahatta
Breed Apart
Straighthate
Spit
Lookaway
Dusted
Born Stubborn
Jasco
Itsari
Ambush
Endangered Species
Dictatorsh*t

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Customer Reviews:

This is good........2007-03-04

This Sepultura album is good. It's not thier best album but it has good material. I hate it when some S.O.B. says that this album sucks because they actually went back to thier "Roots" and added some of the sound that they grew up around. Don't be a hater because they added some good cool new sound.

My fav Sepultura album.......2006-12-16

Deff my fav Sepultura album. It runs just ahead of Beneath the remains for me a death and thrash classic by the way. This was the last album they made with Max in the band and after this album the band starts to go down hill a lil but not as much as some ppl like to claim. This is deff their most exerimental work, combining their native Brazilian rhtyms and tribal drums even more than on Chaos AD another classic of 90's metal. Many ppl prefer Chaos AD over this album however both are most certainly priceless additions to any Metal collection and must owns of any Sepultura collection. They created a very uniqe sound Tribal Metal a new genre of metal that few besides Sepultura and Soulfly Max's band after leaving Sepultura have ever jumped into it mainly because of the knowledge required of Tribal drums in order to play it. Bloody Roots, Attitude, Ratamahatta and Dusted are the best songs of this album. Warning its not traditional metal however its most certainly metal and very heavy too. It showcases some of the best vocal work by Max maybe only second to his stuff on Chaos AD or Dark Ages with Soulfly and deff Igor's best drumming ever. Showing that you dont need to hit your kick drums twice a second or drill out blast beats to be a good drummer. He uses a uniqe style of rhythmic drumming found in few other bands today especially in Metal. Pick it up its most certainly a great album and one that I guarantee will not disapoint you.

4.5.......2006-09-10

Had'nt listened to this in a couple years, decided to today.. God this album is just "thick". Has a very heavy, thick sound. Very original stuff at that time (of course others tried after its success).Great cd and cant believe i let it go that long without listening. Used to be one of my favorites. Must have for any metal head old or new! Their (Seps)reigning moment! 4.5 because i hardly ever give a 5.

Don't Forget the Roots.......2006-07-31

Contrary to what many here say, this is the best Sepultura album, basically the best "mainstream" Metal of the '90's, and almost definitely one of the 10 best "mainstream" Metal albums of all time (only _Master of Puppets_, a few Slayer albums, a few Sabbath albums, and Mastodon's _Leviathan_ rank higher--when I say mainsteam I discount grunge like Soundgarden and underground like Pelican, et al). A lot of people seem to think that Sepultura sucked because they didn't do _Chaos A.D._ revisited. No, instead, they recruited a remote Brazilian tribe to sing, play, chant, and back them up. I can't think of many more memorably (and truly SAVAGE) career moves than this one.

Makes you wish they would've kept on experimenting this way or that more metal acts got down to their native roots like this. "Ratamahatta" is the best illustration of this with mind-eviscerating sentiment, deep guttural emissions (one of the tribesmen emits a bass "buddly-buddly-buddly-bum" before Sep tear in with the wall of distortion--a unique and inimitable spontaneous moment). You can tell the band and the guests are having fun, too, which (as opposed to what the "metal orthodoxy" might preach) doesn't hurt.

All of the more straight-up Sep (no tribesmen) kicks axe, as well, with "Breed Apart" being a perfect example. It hits you straight up the head with a thunderous intro and then comes in with some prime dissonant chug around the minute-one mark. Then a whole bunch of antisocial screaming and all that stuff you would expect, but then the song disintegrates almost sickeningly around the three minute mark and fades off into a mega-processed, de-digitized hail of electronics. Love it!!!

So, yeah, whatever any so-called metal purist tells you, this one is the one if you want to hear Sep at their fiercest and most brilliant. The only metal album I've liked more in the decade since is the aforementioned _Leviathan_. That's as good as it gets in metal, folks.

Brazilian ethnic metal from the heart of Sepultura.......2006-07-07

album #4 of the big four albums (the pinacle of Sepultura's career), and the last before the descent of their popularity following the departure of Max, singer/guitarist, main songwriter, and founding member of Sepultura. some Sepultura fans love this album and other ones hate it. it mainly has to do with the inclusion of the ethnic Brazilian world music element that is so prominent with this album. from the tribal percussion to the Portuguese chanting, to the lyrics that focus on the "roots" of Sepultura's Brazilian heritage. for some people, it just strays too far from the traditional thrash metal foundation that was the band's core from the early days. there's even a hint of "nu-metal" influence in the songs (no doubt a result of Ross Robinson's involvement in producing the album - he worked on the first Korn album). nevertheless, this album is extremely heavy, and simplistic at the same time. its bare-bones metal boiled down to the minimalistic, basic element. the riffs are simple, and the beats are solid... several months after this album, Max's stepson was killed in an auto accident, and this incident was a catalyst in the severing of ties between Max and the rest of the band. Max would go on to form Soulfly (their first album almost sounds like Roots part 2), and the remaining members would continue with Max's replacement Derrick Green, to create the Sepultura album, Against.

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