Sepultura Returns To Bucharest For Gig On Feb 7

Tickets go on sale on Dec 11, cost 87 lei (EUR1=RON3.8874), and are available in the networks of Eventim (Germanos, Carrefour, www.eventim.ro) and Bilet.ro (Flanco, Iulius Mall, Cora Voiaj, www.bilet.ro).

 

The Brazilian band played Bucharest before, in July 2007.

 

Sepultura (“grave” in Portuguese) is rooted in one of the most unlikely cradles of heavy metal – the small poor Brazilian town of Bello Horizonte. The Cavalera brothers, Max and Igor, raised in an environment dominated by guns and drugs, with no musical instruments or musical knowledge but big fans of the new metal wave (Slayer and Venom), they decide to take up music. They borrow instruments from friends and take on bass player Paulo Jr., for the very simple reason that he owned a bass guitar.

 

The Brazilian death metal scene was a crawling toddler when the band released their first LP in 1985. Entitled BESTIAL DEVASTATION, the record was split with fellow band Overdose and their Seculo XX recording.

Songs like Antichrist and Bestial Devastation made clear what Sepultura’s goal was with their music, and their ever-growing legion of fans understood them well. The next step up was their very own album Morbid Visions (1986).

 

1987 marked the release of Schizophrenia, an instant classic to Brazilian metal, which was bootlegged in Europe, selling 30,000 copies for which the band received no copyright profits at all. In its homeland, the band was playing even in the most inaccessible cities, like Manaus near the Amazon in Northern Brazil.

 

Their first release on RR was 1989’s Beneath the Remains, a reference in metal music nowadays.

 

Being the first Brazilian metal band to succeed abroad, they were invited to the select group of headliners of the second edition of the Rock in Rio festival. To mark the occasion, their upcoming album Arise (1991) had an anticipate release as a commemorative edition, the Arise Rough Mixes (today a collector’s item).

 

But their most important work was released in 1993, with a stunning party in a medieval castle in England, where the press from all over the globe met. With Chaos AD the band incorporated some unexpected elements to their brutal sound, like the Brazilian rhythms in the instrumental piece Kaiowas.

 

1996 brought about Roots and Max Cavalera’s leave. Riding the wave of fame, but lacking a vocalist, remaining band members picked out Derrick Green to replace Max and release Against in 1998.

 

In 2001 they release Nation, followed by the Divine Comedy inspired "Dante XXI" in 2006.