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THE REVIEW
After the exhilarating Morbid Visions, Schizophrenia, Beneath the Remains, and the excellent Arise, with Chaos A.D., Sepultura does what no one had done before.
The songwriting has been simplified to the maximum, with few riffs per song, almost nonexistent variations or tempo changes, to give more impact to the 12 songs contained in this CD.
The innovation lies in successfully fusing the raw and uncompromising death/thrash of previous albums with typically tribal sounds, creating something unique, which would be resumed on a larger scale in the subsequent Roots. The result is that with these ideas and riffs, Sepultura unintentionally started what we now call nu metal, which we could very well do without.
Unlike Roots, which could be classified as tribal-crossover, in Chaos A.D. death metal is still present, in Cavalera's voice (who, after Roots, would form Soulfly) and in Andreas Kisser's solos, fast, ultra-technical, and above all covered by such an avalanche of wah and harmonizers that even if he was playing the Jingle Bells tune, we wouldn't notice.
For now, the tribal component is found in the rhythmic part and in the percussion (one could say that Igor Cavalera was the first to play like many crossover drummers do now) as well as in the beautiful instrumental Kaiowas.
Beautiful, politically charged, and always relevant lyrics (see Territory, Propaganda, or Nomad) and a handful of songs with devastating violence in which Cavalera spits all his anger at us (Chaos A.D., Biotech Is Godzilla, Manifest, and the aforementioned Propaganda) will make you fall in love with this CD immediately.
An album that will make history and fortune for this Brazilian band from Belo Horizonte that unintentionally changed something in the world of extreme music.
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Sepultura's Chaos A.D. marks a groundbreaking fusion of raw thrash/death metal with tribal rhythms. Simplified songwriting increases the intensity across twelve impactful tracks infused with political themes. This album inadvertently helped pioneer nu metal and expanded the band's legacy. The tribal percussion combined with Andreas Kisser's technical solos and Cavalera's powerful vocals create a timeless extreme metal classic.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
Sepultura
Brazilian metal band formed in Belo Horizonte in 1984, known for influential albums such as Beneath The Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D. and Roots.50 Reviews
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By "Vangelo"
With "Chaos A.D." Sepultura move away from the tired "satanic" themes of previous albums, focusing more on the album's sound.
They still have the credit for having demonstrated, with "Chaos A.D.", how metal can be much more than a few repetitive chords and superficial poses oscillating between the epic and the satanic.
By korn
The album is very violent and Brazilian, blending many musical genres.
The album is the conjunction between the black metal masterpiece Arise and the subsequent great Roots.
By sofficino
Chaos A.D. is a very beautiful album that breaks out of the canons of extreme music.
Their music evolves but never commercializes, which other bands were beginning to do at that time.
By ThirdWorldChaos
"Chaos A.D. represents a key moment in the band’s history, producing an intense, solid, and simply spectacular album."
"Impossible to remain passive in front of such violence, such anger, and such frontal assaults that do not make prisoners."
