SEPULTURA "Ratamahatta" REACTION & ANALYSIS by Metal Vocalist / Vocal Coach 

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Carlinhos Brown (Brazilian vocalist and percussionist) is doing the "clean" vocals here One other note they edited the intro for the music video, I know this by heart because I love this song, this song is what sparked my love for drums and percussion instruments

For the cultural mix thing you mention: Alien Weaponry is good in that aspect, and their sound is pretty solid.

A follow up with their classic Bloody Roots would be fire 🔥

Carlinhos brown the co singer is a noted Brazilian percussionist as well as the physical instrument he uses his voice to emote the beats.

Damn, those were my teenage years. Max Cavalera later founded SOULFLY. Basically the same Tribal Metal stuff, also including some songs in Portuguese. I recommend checking out DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER. It’s a band from Germany that also likes to implement tribal elements in lots of songs. Also vocally the singer is pretty versatile. Might be really interesting for you. Greetings from Germany.

Project46 is a modern metal band that sings in Portuguese. Oh and Moonspell also have a full album in Portuguese (from Portugal).

I enjoy seeing how passionate this guy is about what he does and the sounds people make in general.

Great to hear Sepultura on your chance!... 🤘🤘🤘 More Sepultura will be amazing... They was a big band whit great vision for that time... And even this day's they sound gorgeous

Sepultura belongs to my youth... I went for concerts... Love the album Arise... Should take a look at the song Dead Embryonic Cells... Or Roots Bloody Roots...

Also, about the vocal style that you asked if it is unique of brazil, I can't say for sure this is a brazilian thing, but I've heard it in different afro brazilian folk styles like Maracatu which is an afrobrazilian music and dance style.

OK, Mark, there's Angra, also from Brazil, power metal with native as well as classical influence. There's Eluveitie (said Helvetie) is a mix of metal with screams and celtic music. There's Arkona, a mix of metal with screams and traditional slavic music. There's Rhapsody of Fire, power metal with a ton of italian baroque influence. A splinter called Luca Turilli's Rhapsody is a metal fusion project that mixes metal, classical, electronica, oriental and even plainchant. Want links?

Well, for Metal including cultural background and traditional influences from the bands locations, check out these: Ektomorf (Hungary), Alien Weaponry (New Zealand), Bloodywood (India), The Hu (Mongolia), Ningen Isu (Japan)

So glad you've checked Sepultura, they're really famous around here in Brazil! You should check out "Phantom Self" with their new vocalist, Derrick Green or "Territory" for more of Max Cavalera! Another brazilian band that sings in portuguese is Project46, check out "Erro +55" or "Rédeas"

In the original CD, and also in the latest release (Double CD version), of ROOTS, they actually put the lyrics for this song.... And yes, It is mostly composed of Brazilian culture references, like "maloca", favela, Zé do caixão (Coffin Joe) ....

Well, this album (Roots) is kind of a mess in several senses. Sepultura was going through all sorts of issues, including what we could call an indentity crysis. The band spent 3 days partaking in the life of a native tribe from the central part of Brazil, called Xavante. There they recorded the ceremony featured in the track "Itsári", some elements performed by the natives in other songs and generally gathered inspiration for the album. The "traditional brazilian music" part of it, at least in this song (Ratamahatta) is a mix of some Xavante music and a new genre of brazilian music at the time called manguebeat. I would not call any of these kinds of sounds "traditional" in the sense of being a widespread part of brazilian culture, actually they are quite the contrary. Most indigenous tribes in Brazil are very secluded both geographically and culturally speaking (even a lot of their languages and dialects are not completely understood still today, and have nothing to do with portuguese), so we have a wide variety of bits and pieces of their cultures that were incorporated in our general culture throughout the years, but generally speaking our native tribes and their cultures remain enigmatic and hazy. There is not a lot to be drawn from this album in terms of brazilian culture, certainly not lyrically at least. Ratamahatta, for example, is a made up word, kind of a portmanteau of "Rats of Manhattan". Carlinhos Brown (a very famous musician and artist here in Brazil, he is the one with the clean voice you hear featured in this song), who co-composed this song together with Sepultura, allegedly saw a bunch of rats in the streets when he was visiting New York, then he came up with the title along with most of this song's lyrics, that mostly don't make sense. I totally understand the impact Roots had back in the day, and the role of spreading a bit of "deep brazilian culture" to the world, even to brazilians themselves, but generally speaking Roots is just not a very good album. I would recommend Sepultura's previous album Chaos AD a lot more than this one if you want to hear some brazilian music mixed with metal in a more cohesive way, and early Soulfy if you want to hear more of the enraged tribal stuff. Now if you want to go deeper into brazilian folk and indigenous music, there is a band called Arandu Arakuaa, their songs are entirely sang in Tupi-Guarani, the tongue of a branch of several native tribes from Brazil.

This song is the most powerful thing I've ever heard!

Alien Weaponry - New Zealand / Bloodywood - India / Acrassicauda - Iraq

Band like death, Carcass,Obituary, Sepultura are the "roots" of all style of screaming we listen to now, Mark you should react to more of these classics. "Slowly we rot" from the album " slowly we rot" Obituary "Exhume to consume " "symphony of sickness" Carcass "innerself" "beneath the remain" Sepultura "zombie ritual" "scream bloody gore" Death

Do this whole album. You should check out Puya. You'll like that as well.

Sepultura is my favorite metal band and was the best live show I ever saw.

I've not seen that music video in so long, but that properly takes me back to my teenage years when it would play on the channels that just constantly played music videos. Absolute banger. I'd love to hear you react to an Archspire track. The most ridiculously fast death metal vocals I've ever heard, Ollie has crazy technique(s).

My first encounter with Sepultura was when i saw the video Refuse/Resist in MTV Brasil... i was 10 years old

this brings my youth back! back in the day (1991) this was the shit! along with iron maiden , helloween, rammstein, pantera and all the other now"classic"bands...awesome times! side note : he gurgles often. seen them 8 times live :D

I remember in high school I found sepultura .. I don't remember if it was this one or Chaos AD but I remember getting it the mail from Columbia house or BMG .. I was hooked . Such a good band 👍👍

Please do more Max Cavalera stuff. I love his style.

That's the song we chose to play at the end of highschool, on the talent show. I was an introverted guy and i wanna prove to anybody that i'm somebody 😅🤟

Orphaned land is a great band from israel which mixes metal with western asian and oriental music while promoting a message of peace between all 3 major religions

Nailbomb is a side project of Max cavalera and you may want to check it out

So glad to see you do Sepultura, never too late to get into them.

Zé do caixão, Zumbi, Lampiao. One of them a character in a Brazilian movie, the other two historical figures. Zumbi was a leader of the largest slave uprisinng in Brazis and Lampiao was a rebel/bandit in Northeastern Brazil. But yeah, the sounds these names make are pretty awesome.

OG Sepultura was always my favorite! 🤘👍

This was so relaxing to watch!! I dont know anything about vocals but I like all the sounds you're making :)

My very first concert was Sepultura and Pantera about 30 years ago.

That was a very good vocal analysis. The best I ever watched. Congratulations from Brazil.

Still amazed after all this years by this crazy amazing band! Pure, raw, tribal power! Dave Grohl once said btw. that they always to aim at the sound of this album, cause it is THAT amazing and in some sort the gold standard of production! Love it still and it hasn't aged by any means! Unique and golden! Love from germany... Sepultura is not JUST big in Brazil! 🤘🤘🤘

You are an interesting person. Thank you for the video. Cheers from Brazil.

Moonspell did an entire album in Portuguese called 1755. It’s damn good. They’d be a good band for an analysis too!

First listened to this back in 96 and was literally mind blown 🤯

Theres a metal band from Puerto Rico called Puya that has used Puertorican folk music in they're songs.They were around the same time a sepultura and I saw the play with system of a down and mr.bungle in 1999.

Any chance we can get a video on alien weaponry?? Kai tangata maybe?🤔😂

Wow you should listen to the Chaos ad Album by Sepultura. The Album Roots From them, I would say, has many Elements that you her today in Deathcore and the like.

This music video blew my 8yr old mind when it released, may be nostalgia but I always wondered why this track wasn't more popular.

Hey Mark, another great video. Btw, I'm brazillian and I recommend you to listen to Project46, they are from São Paulo, search for the song "Pânico".

This was so good!

Bloddywood from India has recently released a new song which reminded me of this classic song from Sepultura.

This is a tiny list of bands and songs I listen to that have ethnical sounds: - Bloodywood (indian): Machi Bhasad, Gaddaar, Jee Veerey... All their songs!!! YOU MUST LISTEN TO THEM ABSOLUTLY - Soulfly (another Cavalera brothers band): Sangue de Bairro - Sepultura: Refuse/Resist (better song of all time) - Overdose (another brezilian band): I can't remember which song is in portugues - Jambinai (corean): They keep silence 그들은 말이 없다 ,

Max has sounded the same through all these years.... one of my top 5

Hey mark, I'm brazilian and I play in a samba band in my college (it's like a marching band), that thing you talked about in 16:20 ish we call it "solfejo" (I guess solfège is the english name). In our group, we use it as an teaching tool, since most people don't have the technical knowledge to read sheet music (or the knowledge to write some of the crazy shit we create). In that section he's kinda "singing" what we play on a repique. Here's a link to a repique solo played by three great musicians. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lVOcMufuH1A.html

Another band worth checking out in this style is Laberinto (from Venezuela). Their "freakeao" album was pretty awesome.

Yo, y'all need to do an anatomy lesson video with animations showing internals and such

So cool. Brings back so many memories, when I was a kid I always adored the song, but couldn't watch the clip. It was to scary :)))

this is a funny song and back in 96 i was 20 when i bought this roots album double cd. And 97 i bought the album blood rooted which was sepultura covering other bands good stuff. Hello from FInland.

If you want a metal band that uses portuguese, may i sujest Madame Saatan. Musics like "Vela" "Moira" or "Respira". They sing about the african origins to some brasilian religions like Ubanda. They are pretty unique!

I feel at home with this reaction! Brazil representation!!!

it is indescribably cool to watch other people geek out in the same way that i once did, over songs that defined my youth and my personal musical journey. when it comes from a channel and an artist that i already respect and watch (and now listen to, let me say I really dig that new Kardashev album), it is even better. cheers

i think some backing vocals along with some drumming (namely the intro) were provided by some xavante guys

So the vocalist at the time was Max Cavalera. Mr. Cavalera has 3 other bands that he is in. Cavalera Conspiracy, the supergroup killer be killed, and Soulfly.

I flipped the fuck out when I heard you mention Shpongle. Mad respect.

The song was originally recorded in 1994 look at 2 live sessions and attitude root album was remastered in 2017 in studio four people drumming 2 guitarist doing the original vocals

Great universal blessing 🤘🏼☄️🖤

96' my graduating year. I was YEARS into fandom. If you new thrash back in the day, you knew real Sepultura.

dude, that video actually surprised me, i'm glad to see that you liked our stuff, because i really like yours. if you want more portuguese metal songs, we have project 46, my favorite song is "panico" from their last album. Pray for mercy is another awesome deathcore band that we have, check threir song "anexo III: invocação" if you want to. "Project MishraM - Kanakana ft. Kmac2021" an indian influenced metal song with all that microtonal vocal stuff, i think you will like a lot

Quite many metal bands mix their cultural music with metal, it's called Folk Metal. Folk Black metal is quite a common thing (I love it!), but also many other metal genres are used for the mix. I'd say the Sepultura album Roots is a nu-metal/folk metal mix. Here's a list of some great folk metal bands from different countries and thus different cultural elements on a varying degree. Some of these have been active for decades so some albums might have stronger folk influence than the others: Skyforger (Latvia) Eluveitie (Switzerland) Nokturnal Mortum (Ukraine) - I recommend "The Voice of Steel" album Ensiferum (Finland) Wintersun (Finland) Moonsorrow (Finland) Metsatöll (Estonia) Cemican (Mexico) Windir (Norway) Týr (Faroe Islands) Heidevolk (Netherlands) Cruachan (Ireland) Primordial (Ireland) Orphaned Land (Israel) Melechesh (Israel)

Overdose uses the tribal instruments as well . They are also from Brazil

you have to check out the live recording on Dutch music show "2 Meter Sessions". Filmed in 1996. This song, roots and attitude.

Thanks for the video, really awesome analysis! As a Brazilian, I feel really happy to watch these videos. I recommend listening to another great metal band that came out of here called Angra (Sepultura, Angra, and Shaman I believe are the three big ones), but this one is more power metal and had 3 big different lineups. I'd recommend Nothing to Say and Carolina IV from the Holy Land album (1996) for some brazilian metal fusion (first lineup). Temple of Hate and Spread your Fire are really amazing songs from the Temple of Shadows album (2004) and features Kai Hansen with some amazing vocals (in Temple of Hate) too for some analysis. Power metal is a different beast when it comes to vocals though. Thanks again!

Sepultura from Brazillll!!!

this music was be created feat musicist and percusionist CARLINHOS BROWN. percusionist from the salvador city in brazil

this video is a masterclass ty

România have several bands like that (mixing metal with romanian folclore): Negura Bunget (atmospheric folk/black metal), DorDeDuh (atmospheric folk/black metal), Dirty Shirt (hardcore folk metal), Sur Austru (atmospheric black metal), Bucovina (folk metal)

Sepultura hasn't been the same since the departure if the Cavalera brothers. From Beneath the Remains all the way through the Roots albums are timeless. Each with their own identity

Possibly my favourite Sepultura song. The percussion is so awesome. After checking out Roots, check out the album Schizophrenia!

theres two singers, the actual singer of the band and the drummer of another band. i think the ladder does the more "straining" scream

There is also a live performance with Carlinhos Brown at the NPA RU-vid chanel

You definitely need to listen to the Roots album start to finish. It's a classic for sure.

You know which channel I think is super underrated? Metal Piano Music. The guy spends weeks composing classic metal songs into classical/relaxing piano pieces and he hardly gets any views. That dude deserves more followers 🤷 🤷

Oh shit, Mark is a Shpongle fan! Color me pleasantly surprised.

Mark really did my favorite sepultura track of all time since i was like 13, im 28 now

Fuck yeah Shpongle! What a great band!

Alien Weaponry is a newer band that does music a lot like Roots but with traditional Maori music. Saw 'em open for Gojira in October and they were incredible!

Imagine Sepultura playing this at Woodstock 99. That'd have been fire!

Hey Mark, amazing video! Here some recommendations of Brasilian bands: Band: Project46 Musics: pânico, pode pá, acorda pra vida, erro +55 Band: Krisiun Musics: "Bloodcraft", "Vicious Wrath", "H.O.G. (House of God)", "Suicidal Savagery", "United in Deception" Another band from Max Cavalera: Soufly musics: bleed, back to the primitive, rise of the fallen, prophecy Musics from Sepultura: Attitude, chaos Ad, Territory, Orgasmatron, refuse/resist, roots bloody roots ( on this they make a feat with a regional samba percursion band ), arise, convicted in life (new formation of the band) New band with Igor and Max Cavalera: Cavalera Conspiracy music: Sanctuary, spectral war, inflikted, insane

The Hu! Mongolian throat singing meets metal. They have also done tracks with Lizzy Hale

There was band from Hungary called Niburta who released a record that absolutely blew my mind using a combination of cultural influences. Listen to the tracks Masala and Rege. The album is called “Scream from the East”. They kind of went into obscurity, but this was such a unique album!

Ektomorf used some traditional hungarian music in their intros and older stuff (Instinct and Outcast era)

As far as In remember Mike Patton from Faith no More had special feature on this song.....

I’d love to see a reaction to some of their modern stuff with Derrick Green as the vocalist. “Isolation” is awesome.

Listen to the album version of this song. It's a bit longer and there's an almost throat singing part there that didn't make the cut... wonder why...

You must know "Gangrena Gasosa" from Brazil. They're music is a mixture of metal and macumba (african-brazilian religion). Really unique.

You should check out some SOULFLY which was Max's band when he left SEPULTURA especially love their first album with songs like TRIBE and umbabarauma and bleed

My first encounter with sepultura was as a teenager. "Roots, bloody roots"!!! Sometimes later I discovered Soulfly. "Blood, Fire, War, Hate" would be my recommendation.

Must have to check out live version of this (+attitude) On live session, easy to find you will not be disappointed

Primus did some stop motion and characters in crazy costumes.

Hearing Metal for 20 years and not knowing Sepultura RaTaMaHaTa? Now you are no longer a virgin mate!

if you enjoyed this you should check also live versions: Sepultura Live Pinkpop 1996 Ratamahatta/Kaiowas or Sepultura - Ratamahatta (Live on 2 Meter Sessions)

It's called tribal metal, and Sepultura invented it. Krash Karma is a male-female duo. They do an exquisite cover of Ratamahatta.

It was "DMT" from Shpongle? That music have samba beats

Alien Weaponry, saw them live in Chattanooga, TN back in November they are Maori from New Zealand and integrate it into thier metal. The Hu, Chinese/mongolian?

Apparently there is some Mike Patton (faith no more) vocals mixed in there too somewhere. I could never spot where tho