Sepultura facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sepultura
Background information
Origin	Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Genres	Thrash metal Groove metal Death metal Nu metal Alternative metal Heavy metal Black metal (early)
Years active	1984—present
Labels	Cogumelo, Roadrunner, New Renaissance, Steamhammer, Nuclear Blast
Associated acts	Sarcófago, Nailbomb, Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy, Udora
Members	Paulo Jr. Andreas Kisser Derrick Green Eloy Casagrande
Past members	Igor Cavalera Max Cavalera Jairo Guedez Wagner Lamounier Jean Dolabella

Sepultura is a thrash metal/death metal/groove metal band from Brazil that has sold over 15 million albums worldwide. The brothers Max and Igor Cavalera started it in Belo Horizonte in 1984. The two brothers have left the band since, Max in 1996, and Igor in 2006, with American singer Derrick Green and drummer Jean Dolabella replacing them after their exits, although Dolabella left in 2011 to be replaced with Eloy Casagrande.

History

The band's name is Portuguese for the word "grave". The Cavalera brothers chose this name after translating English band Motorhead's song called "Dancing On Your Grave".

Singer Wagner Lamounier and bass player Paulo Jr. were the first stable members to join the band along the Cavaleras. Lamounier left after a year and Max decided to sing as well as play guitar. The band added a second guitar player named Jairo Guedez. These members recorded their first album "Morbid Visions" in 1986. The song "Troops of Doom" from this album gave the band a small amount of popularity.

Guedez left after the album was released, being replaced by Andreas Kisser. This line-up lasted until 1996 and accomplished several things. They recorded five more albums, where they began to play a more thrash metal sound than death/black metal in the first three albums, Schizophrenia (1987), Beneath The Remains (1989) and Arise (1991), and then moved on to groove metal with the last two of these five albums, Chaos A.D. (1993) and Roots (1996). Popular songs from the Chaos A.D. include Refuse/Resist and Roots Bloody Roots. On Roots, they also included a song they recorded with the Brazilian Xavantes tribe called Itsari, who also toured with them.

Conflicts between Max and the other members led to Max leaving the band. He was replaced with American singer Derrick Green. Although the band's album sales have lowered with each album released with Green, he remains in the group today, having recorded the albums Against (1998), Nation (2001), Roorback (2003), Dante XXI (2006), A-Lex (2009) and Kairos (2011) with the band.

Igor Cavalera left the band in 2006 after Dante XXI. A year later, he made up with his brother Max, and the two formed The Cavalera Conspiracy. Igor's first replacement in Sepultura was Jean Dolabella, who recored A-Lex and Kairos with the band before quitting. The band's drummer today is Eloy Casagrande.

Members

• Paulo Jr. - bass guitar (1984-)
• Andreas Kisser - guitar (1987-)
• Derrick Green - vocals, guitar (1997-)
• Eloy Casagrande - drums (2011-)
• Max Cavalera - vocals, guitar (1984-1996)
• Igor Cavalera - drums (1984-2006)
• Jairo Guedez - guitar (1984-1986)
• Jean Dolabella - drums (2006-2011)

Albums

• Morbid Visions (1986)
• Schizophrenia (1987)
• Beneath the Remains (1989)
• Arise (1991)
• Chaos A.D. (1993)
• Roots (1996)
• Against (1998)
• Nation (2001)
• Roorback (2003)
• Dante XXI (2006)
• A-Lex (2009)
• Kairos (2011)
• The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart (2013)
• Machine Messiah (2017)

Images for kids

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  Sepultura's "classic" logo, used on all of the band's albums from Beneath the Remains (1989) to Against (1998), and again since Kairos (2011).

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  Singer and guitarist Max Cavalera formed Sepultura, along with his brother Igor, in 1984, and stayed with the band until 1996.

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  Andreas Kisser has been the lead guitarist of Sepultura since 1987. His arrival provided the group with a more technical experience.

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  Derrick Green has been the singer of Sepultura since 1998, when he replaced Max Cavalera, who had left the band in 1996.

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  Sepultura performing in Poland, 2007.

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  Drummer Eloy Casagrande in 2014. Casagrande has been the drummer of Sepultura since 2011.

See also

In Spanish: Sepultura (banda) para niños