The record label thought they were crazy for wanting to go in the Amazon jungle with Indigenous people and write music, incorporating traditional Brazilian instruments. Much to the surprise of the record label, the album was a success and its considered a Metal classic. The vocalist/guitarist stated “We should have our own identity, why should we try to copy metal in the United States?” Sepultura is legendary in Brazil.

Fun fact: Mike Patton and Jonathan Davis are featured on Lookaway! Not sure if you knew that but just putting it out there.

It's a fantastic album...no doubt. It has a lot of "nods" to Brazilian culture, and to the indigenous populations of the Amazonas. Such as: --The "Twangy string instrument" on the second track is a berimbau, which is an African instrument, which was adopted by Brazilians, used a lot in the Brazilian dance/music/martial art of Capoeira --The rythm in the start of "Breed Apart", is a typical samba/carnival rythm --Several of the tracks have Portuguese or native lyrics --Some of the track have Break Downs, that become almost entirely native Brazilian music

Great Album… My Dad MIXED this album & actually Produced some of their the earlier albums many have mentioned above. To listen to them in sequence really shows the fantastic growth of their music & their importance in the progression of, specifically, heavy metal music. Cheers

SEPULTURA...... DO BRASIL!!!!!

Hi Molly. The instrument used in the intro of Attitude is called "berimbau ". Its used in sessions of a brazilian martial art called Capoeira. Cheers from Brazil! If you could check out an all female band called Crypta it world be nice. They recently made a tour in Europe.

Rattamahatta is my favourite song ever!! 😍such an underrated band, saw them live a few times back in the 90s, so good!!

Went from Deftones to Sepultura's Roots. Made my day. Since this the last record of the original lineup(s) it has more nu- metal sounding, and the lead vocalist Max Cavalera is pissed and fumed with the loss of his step son Dana who was murdered. But they have a more doom/thrash black metal style in their beginnings. Still a kick ass record to listen to from front to back. And miss Molly another great reaction to Roots. Keep them coming? SNOT - get some Ministry - psalm 69 Fear Factory - obsolete

As a Brazilian: this is epic

Okay now you have to listen to their 3 best album, Beneath the Remains (1989), Arise (1991), Chaos A.D (1993)! Roots is awesome, but these three are in my all time favourite list.

I never get tired of listening to this album! A great groove metal record.

What an INSANELY awesome album - Thanks so much for your time reviewing these for us 🤘🏻

Attitude will forever be my favourite Sepultura song.

Nice one, this hits close to me as a brazilian. The different percusion you hear in track 1 is "atabaque" and at track 2 you mention "berimbau", both afro-brazilian instruments, they brought our culture to the metal world and im here for it :)

Yesssss!!! Great band, great reaction!!! Love watching these!

Literally the best metal band from Brazil 🤘😎🎸 Great vid Molly!

You finally get to hear my second favorite song of all time Endangered Species!

I HIGHLY recommend Arise and Quadra (their current album) 2 of their best, Arise being quite the staple of Thrash, Quadra being the finest of the new version of Sepultura (fronted by Derick Green since 1997) Sep's last 2 albums are very good too, their first few with Derick wern't great, but from 2011 to now, DAMN. Roots, very experimental, iconic and has some awesome songs

this is simply amazing. they used various instruments of our brazilian roots (here goes the name), which was and is many times forgotten. by the way, "berimbau" is the name of the instrument used in "attitude" and other songs.

Arise !es un muy buen álbum para reaccionar a sepultura , saludos y buenas vibras desde la distancia.

Seriously molly your voice is like silk. You could read the phone book and I'd listen to it. Great to see you experience new music. Cheers from Brisbane Australia

So after this record, Max left the band and started another nu metal band called Soulfly (after the chanted word he said in the song Headup by Deftones) and their first record is also this really interesting mix of Brazilian tribal music, nu metal and thrash metal. Even Chino is featured on the song "First commandment" on that record. Also you're totally right after the turntable scratching, this record featured DJ Lethal from House of Pain and Limp Bizkit, that dude literally helped invent distorted turntablism via using a guitar amplifier and running his decks through there to try and make the turntables sound like a guitar (like a reverse Tom Morello).

OMG I cant believe you liked Roots, they are one of my all time favorite bands, especially Chaos A.D. and Beneath the Remains 😁

Probably my favorite metal album of all-time. The energy on this album is unstoppable. Just love it 🤘

So stoked I’ve been waiting for this notification for days now

Funny that you mentioned Mr. Bungle and "Irony Is a Dead Scene" on Lookaway, because Mike Patton's vocals are actually featured on that track. You can find live version with him on KZfaq, sick stuff.

i'm glad to see a band from my country! love your videos btw

Just gold. Keep going with the reacts! Cheers from Brasil.

So happy to see a Sepultura review!! One of the best live shows I've been to was in 1994 when they toured with Fudge Tunnel, Clutch, and Fear Factory. Any of those bands are worth checking out. One of my favourite is Fudge Tunnel - Creep Diet which is full of nicely crafted noise rock with a heavy groove and amazing guitar.

i think you're on my top 5 of youtube music reviewers, your commentary on the music is always on point.

I don't know if anyone has said it but this album was produced by Ross Robinson, who produced the first two Korn records, and this was recorded at the same studio as those two albums. Two members from Korn are also on this album on the song Lookaway, that was Jonathan Davis on vocals in the verses. Needless to say, the band where very much into Korn.

There's some rawness and primitivety in that tribal sound. It's eery and powerful.

Now you need to listen to the first album... *It* *Will* *Blow* *You* *Away.*

Love all your uploads so interesting to see your reactions to these amazing albums!

those instruments that you dont recognized are brazilian intruments. they puted a lot of brazilian percussion on this. have a lot of brazilian indigenous elements on this too. have lyrics in english, but the instrumental is 100% brazil. ABRAÇO PROS BRASILEIROS QUE VIERAM AQUI!!!!

Mike patton and jonathan davis actually did vocals on lookaway. Mike is also on a bonus track called mine which I highly recommend.

OMG, I WAS WAITING FOR THIS! 🤝

Ooooo Sepultura, nice! You gotta check out their masterpiece album Arise! Or better yet, start from the beginning. I couldn't get into their first album Morbid Visions, but their second album Schizophrenia is a great place to start. Soo nice to see someone Sepultura on the channel, great reaction as usual Molly! 🤘🤘🤙🤙

Welcome to Brazilian Metal! Best shit ever. Love all the unique instruments they use

I have no idea how your channel came to be, but I've become addicted to your reviews. Success!

You should definitely listen to Skindred. I don't know if enough people know about that band to suggest it en masse but I can tell you'd get a huge kick out of their debut album. One of the greatest of all time.

They aren't even remotely like Sepultura but I hope you cover Type O Negative at some point, October Rust is my favorite album of theirs. Great mix of emotions and musicianship throughout the record

Greetings from Brazil ❤️ love your reactions

I like the direction you took reviewing this album. It's a fun one. I'm excited to see what you get into next. Stay Cool 🤘

Yet another great video! One of my favorite albums ever! Gotta do Soulfly's first album next!

It's amazing how they managed to incorporate traditional instruments from the indigenous people of Brazil with the heaviness of metal. My favorite song is attitude

Super cool that you really liked this one! A lot of people either love or hate this one it seems but I think this shows off the influence from Brazil better than any of their previous albums. Their earlier stuff was known for being much thrashier. I like that stuff too but Roots to me is one of the quintessential nu metal (or peripherally nu metal) albums of all time

Amazing react. Thank you for this.

Chaos A.D. is worth the listen. Another home run reaction vid, Molly! Keep up the great work!

Hug from Brazil ❤️🇧🇷 I've been watching your channel since you started reacting to Korn, very cool to see you reacting to a band that I'm so proud to be from my country

Roots is definitely a Korn inspired album. Sepultura sought out Korn producer, Ross Robinson for this album, and it really shows. The track Lookaway basically being like a Nu-Metal super-group outing with Jonathan Davis, one of the pioneers of the genre, and Mike Patton of Faith No More being one of the god-fathers (though he despised Nu Metal, calling it derivative). The track even featured House of Pain and later Limp Bizkit member DJ Lethal. House of Pain could even be considered a big influence on the Nu Metal genre, as they would do early shows with bands like Helmet and Korn. It's a sound that Max Cavalera would carry with him into his next band, Soulfly. The thing that really sets it apart is the tribal vibe of the album. Again, these sounds would be explored even more with Max's next band Soulfly.

AAAAAAA THIS ALBUM IS AMAZING!!!! great reaction

3:33 the name of the instrument is berimbau, very used in capoeira fight here in Brazil

Love the classic metal reactions!!! Love sep!!

*Aqui é o Brasil!!!* 🇧🇷🙅🏽‍♂️

I saw Sepultura en Buenos Aires in 1994 3 days in a row, absolute super band!!! I m too young that time, jaja --- Continue Molly with this bands, enjoy!!!!

I was one of those who advised listening to the album, thanks for this great video!

All the press before the album was all about how Korn and Deftones were huge influences for the album and they had gotten Ross Robinson to produce it. When this was released was surprised the direction they went. They had experimented with bringing their cultural roots to metal and 'Kaiowas' from their previous album was a huge live favorite but didn't expect a full album or it to work so well. I don't have time to research to see if RoadRunner or someone has posted on KZfaq the companion video album that collected the video singles with interspersed discussions by the band explaining symbolism in the vids, more about their heritage, and such. It is a good watch though, imo. 'Arise' is my fave album from them. One of the few albums that I have bought 3 times (vinyl, cassette, CD). I suggest if you decide to continue to dig in with the Max albums just do thing in reverse and do 'Chaos AD' next.

Mike Patton and Jonathan Davis and DJ Lethal are featured in the song “Lookaway”

“ Straight Awesomeness “

Nice one! Rattamahatta features Carlinhos Brown, another brazilian singer. It's my favorite track from this album too! :)

The instrument in the Begin of the Attitude calls berimbau, use a lot in capoeira circles

Pure Good Music Pretty Molly!😘

The Cavalera brothers recently re-recorded Sepultura's first death/thrash metal EP & album Bestial Devastation & Morbid Visions with the Cavalera Conspiracy project (the originals were low budget and kinda sounded like Slayer bootleg tapes), so if you ever wanted to hear 80s metal with modern sound & production, they sound pretty great.

In the booklet that comes with the cd album it says that the song Istria was recorded live in the in the home of the Xanvntes tribe (a tribe from the Amazon rainforest), Aldegia Mato Grosso Brazil on the 5 of Novmenber and that Istria means roots in the Xanvntes native language and that the chant used in the track is the a healing ceremony chant used by the tribe. The booklet also says there is only one guitar playing on the song Jasco. The album cover for this album is just a picture of a member of the Xanvntes tribe which I'm guessing is to show the bands country roots (the band are Brazilian) as the album is all about the bands and there countries roots. It's some cool album art.

One of the greatest metal albums ever. The variety of instruments and time changes.. Could see you really enjoyed this. Mike Patton and Jonathan Davis on Lookaway.. Hence the mental vocals..

This album has several quotes from Brazilian beliefs and folklore, as well as instruments that had their origin in the country, as a Brazilian I must say that when I saw Sepultura gaining a worldwide reach and giving great support to nu-metal without losing national characteristics I was extremely happy. Another album that not only does the same but also has several special guests such as Corey Taylor and Chino Moreno is Primitive, by the band Soulfly, also created by Max Cavalera, I recommended.

That instrument Max was playing at the intro to Attitude was a brazilian instrument called a berimbao

🎶BOOTS!🎶MUDDY🎶BOOTS!🎶

After this video I revisited Roots album and was a great experience! The album production is awesome, there is a lot of textures in vocals, instruments and ambient sounds. I love this album!!

Lovely reaction!

You can clearly see how they took the more nu metal approach and mixed it with some native instrumentation then slipknot went and retake this tribal sound and make it their own nu metal brand with a mix of some more death metal approach. Gotta love this metal influences all over the place. Definitely should check out their previous works with Max, Chaos AD and Arise being standouts. Also the next Max's band, Soulfly!

Do Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred for Mankind. It will blow your mind.

Front to back awesomeness! Igor 's masterpiece.

You mentioned similarities of this album to Korn and Slipknot, funnily enough the producer of this album was Ross Robinson, who also produced Sepulturas previous album Chaos A.D. which is my fav of Sepultura. He was kind of the starter pack for metal bands around this time. Robinson also produced Slipknots first two albums as well as Korns first two albums. He also produced the first albums for Coal Chamber, Limp Bizkit, Glassjaw and oh boy Vanilla Ice when he went Nu Metal.

Hi from Brazil! the musical instrument used in music two is a very common musical instrument in capoeira called BERIMBAU.

It's their best record for me. Some classics on this beast.

I like You're many review's You are the best in KZfaq if You ask me. Why? Because You are listening to every little detail of a track. And Imho that's exactly how it should be! I❤this album the most just because that's the first album I've heard from them. I like their other stuff like "Arise" their best album 😅

After this awesome reaction i have just one thing to say: Ill Niño - Revolution/Revolución.

Classic album ... the live album the put out supporting this cd: "under the pale grey sky" was one of my favorite live albums.

Hell yes. I might have to hit that sub! Sepultura is my shit! Chaos A.D. is my favorite album that came out right before Roots. You should absolutely check that out next!

So fun morning watching your reactions!!! very good selections and reviews. My request for you to listen is: Soulfly - Primitive :)

One of the best metal albums of all time, period.

Awesome album! If you wanted to check out more of their music, I'd recommend their albums Arise and Chaos A.D. but this ones definitely their best imo

Oh man this one classic was a huge one for me when I was getting into Metal!

I used to live in an apartment building with a guy named Mark. We called him Dark Mark because he always wore black and almost always a Sepultura t-shirt. He came over to my place one time to show me a Misfits video from an early community access tv show in Detriot. After that was done he showed me a video of Skrewdriver. I soon realized what they were all about and never looked at Mark the same. No comment on Sepultura but when I hear the bands name, that encounter is what I think about.

the long deep chanting notes in the background on attitude is actually mike patton, that high screeching sound was also mike :3 . i love his deep singing :3

Rarely has a band made a more confident album that departs from their past material so much. This album knows exactly what it is doing from the jump, and it is so wonderfully distinct from anything I've ever heard, before or since.

You might know this already. But Max Cavalera was the background vocalist on the Deftones song Headup from "Around The Fur".

Love your vids. You should do Devouring Radiant Light by Skelletonwitch.

I said DUDEEEE, DUDEEEEEE, GREAT CONTENT

goooood!!!

For some time now I intended to recommend you listen to Chaos AD but you beat me to it with Roots, definitely check out Chaos AD, it's a bit of a middle ground between Roots and their earlier material, then listen to Arise, one of the all time great Thrash Metal albums. You'll be working backwards through three consecutive albums but get a real sense of their progression, just in reverse :)

Sepultura went to The São Marcos Indigenous Land, where a significant part of the Xavante people live, is located approximately **300 km** from the geographical region of the Amazon. The Brazilian Amazon, which is a part of the Amazon biome, has an area of approximately 3.8 million km². Here are some countries with similar sizes: **India**: 3.29 million km² **Argentina**: 2.78 million km² **Kazakhstan**: 2.72 million km² **Algeria**: 2.38 million km² **Democratic Republic of the Congo**: 2.34 million km² The Xavantes are an indigenous people who live in areas distributed within the state of Mato Grosso, in the Central West Region of Brazil. Although Mato Grosso is not located in the geographical region traditionally known as the Amazon, it is part of the so-called Legal Amazon. Therefore, it can be said that the Xavantes are in the Legal Amazon, but not in the geographical region of the Amazon. The Amazon Rainforest as a whole, which extends across nine countries, has an area of approximately 5.5 million km². Here are some countries with similar sizes: - **European Union**: 4.18 million km² - **India**: 3.29 million km² Please note that these values are approximate and may vary depending on the source.

Solid album and review. Won't lie, was kind of hanging out for a Helmet album haha. If you like this sound, I would suggest Home by Sevendust. Has that Nu-Metal bass/bounce that you appear interested in from many reviews.

This is a masterpiece! This album got me into heavy shit. Incredible stuff! Met Max in Warsaw and his sons. Amazing encounter! He gave me an electronic invitation to his Soulfly gig. It was gorgeous experience😊 By the way if you like this one you ought to listen to Soulfly “Dark Ages”. As good as Roots.

Yeah Sepultura! They are great. Completely unrelated but I still recommend you to listen to Acid Bath, short lived band that influenced Slipknot

I think with Sepultura you should have started from the beginning or at least from 'Schizophrenia' (1987), since they are a band which really evolves their sound from record to record, you can really appreciate how they become better composers and musicians throughout their career. 'Beneath The Remains' from 1989 it's one of the most important Thrash Metal records ever, if not the most. One of my favourite bands ever, and I've been a metalhead 25+ years, so glad you're getting into them. Cheers from Spain Molly!

Fear Factory - ‘Obsolete’ is great album. You should check it out.

Awesome vid as usual. Lot of nu metal or its precursor type albums lately...should do some like dream theater, at the gates or bodom, strapping young lad, amorphis. Course if ya gonna stick with nu metal for a bit maybe some (hed)p.e. or coal chamber. Or candirias coma imprint comp though I've mentioned that enough at this point