Musical Style
MTV has called Sepultura the most successful Brazilian heavy metal band in history and "perhaps the most important heavy metal band of the '90s". In 1993, one reporter wrote that the band played "machine-gun-tempo mayhem" but that the members "love to attack organized religion and repressive government".
Sepultura's music has been described as groove metal, death metal, thrash metal, alternative metal, black metal, speed metal and doom metal. The group have been credited by some and praised by others for setting the blueprints for metalcore and nu metal.
Stewart Copeland has stated in a Modern Drummer interview that he is a fan of heavy metal music, and among them, Sepultura. Incidentally, after attending a Sepultura concert, he was about to leave when the band members told him, 'You should stay for Slipknot.' So he did, and he was blown away. Copeland says of Sepultura, 'They're really good...and really heavy. Way heavier than Hendrix, way heavier than Zeppelin...way heavier than any of that other shit I was into. At one point I was going to see them in Brazil to record the heaviest album ever made. But scheduling conflicts came up and it didn't happen.'
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