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Rating: Brazil in the second half of the 80s was the homeland of an invasion of metal bands with an extreme, raw, and heavily "ignorant" sound. Bands like Sarcofago, Holocausto, or Attomica were rampant in the underground during those years, but Sepultura was much more than that even back then, when they might have seemed like just another band infesting Brazil with their heavy thrash-death-black.
The band was formed in 1984 in Belo Horizonte by brothers Max (vocals, guitar) and Igor Cavalera (drums) joined by Paulo Jr. (bass) and Jairo T. (guitar), influenced by Slayer and Venom they quickly developed a massive gut-wrenching sound made of dirty and powerful riffs, fast drumming and Max's growling and hoarse vocals that later would be dubbed as "growl".
Their debut "Bestial Devastation" says it all from the title itself; it's 1985, and thrash metal is expanding in America and Europe and Sepultura with their raw and heavy sonic impact pushed the genre to even more extreme heights, dirtying their basic thrash with death metal elements that until then were a matter for few (Death and Possessed) and one can also notice a certain black influence (Hellhammer and Bathory). This EP of 4 tracks plus an intro contains what will be considered one of the most violent records ever released, from the dark and obsessive riffs of "Necromancer", the rudiments of blast beats in "Antichrist" to the twisted riffing of "Warriors Of Death" and the vehemence of the title track with Max Cavalera's snarls always in the forefront creating a dark and unhealthy atmosphere.
In the following years, Sepultura would become one of the most famous metal bands worldwide thanks to stunning albums like "Morbid Visions", "Schizophrenia", "Beneath The Remains", and "Arise", continuously evolving and not losing any of their original rage, at least until '93 with the release of the experimental "Chaos A.D." and in '96 with "Roots" where the powerful and fast metal of the past years transforms into a less effective and boring tribal-metal crossover.
However, during those years the group received attention from a much wider audience. After Cavalera's departure, Sepultura continued with a new singer with the same lackluster artistic results of the second half of the 90s. Surely this EP may not be much technically but its tracks wipe out everything in terms of power, inaugurating the golden years of the most pounding and raw metal.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 The Curse (00:41)
The curse is launched, beware
The Lord of Death declared the war
Satanas is invoked to destroy
And to command the bestial
Devastation
02 Bestial Devastation (03:07)
A legion of demons
Born from boundaries of death
Like a onslaught of evil
To destroy this Earth
Covering the morbid skies
Like a mist of sulphur
I can see Satanas
The cursed of death
Terminate masses and reigns
With blood axes of hate
The beasts of son of devil
Tormenting the preachers of Christ
The humans try to react
To this nuclear war
Which is like a endless pain
Burning in the fire of Hell
03 Antichrist (03:49)
Born from Hell
The supreme force of evil
To destroy the altar
And slaughter the christian's born
Churches will be destroyed
Crosses will be brocken
He's laughing in blasphemy
Like a domination of death
Antichrist
The war is started
Heavens on fire
From the deep of Hell
Leaving words of hate
Antichrist
The terror is declared
The final fight started
The Antichrist and Lucifer
Fighting with angels and God
Antichrist
04 Necromancer (03:52)
The misfits high
In this night
Can feel the presence of death
Way to the
Mortuary
So the dead's will invoke
Corpses and skulls
In my countour
See a corpse blood
With the face
In cruciform
Now begins for the wrath
Catch the skulls
Of a children
Frozen and dismal
Coming with me
Creature
Kill in name of Hell
The black mess
Is started
Lifes will terminate
With the wrath
Of the demons
Started the genocide
Wrath
In my corpus is born
Death
Lost legions from Hell
Slaughter
You'll see in sacrifice
Skulls
Are christians with blood
Necromancer
Deads invoker
Necromancer
Deads invoker
Wrath, odious, desire
In my corpus is born
The fates last, terror's spread
For a necros creature of
The crypts
05 Warriors of Death (04:08)
Marching over the mist
Leaving behind the wheack's
Going this endless war
Like a tormenting nightmare
Over the devastated ruins
I raised a sign
The sign of hate
For a masses despair
To revenged the years
Arrested in abyss
Where Jesus Christ
Made his suffer
But the final command
Is happening here now
Which I see is the ruins
And warriors marching to death
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