Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots (REACTION!!!) 

I'm brazilian. Roots bloody roots talks about the indian genicide in the brazilian colonization. We're colonized by Portugal in 1500 and the natives was killed or enslaved. Now theres a lot of movements trying to rescue the indigenous culture.

You mentioned the Korn feel to the song, Sepultura is one of Korn's influences.

The title "Roots Bloody Roots" is related to the genocide commited against the indian population in Brazil's colonization. When they talk about going back to the roots I think they mean that we should forget about "imported" cultures and pay more attention to the ancient culture that already existed in Brazil before it's colonization. I believe it is very similar to the rescue movement of the indigenous culture in the USA. Very nice reaction, guys! I loved to hear your comments about one of Brazil's greatest bands. Greetings from Brazil! Cheers!

Oh the irony of listening to Sepultura over Opeth and then stating that there could be a different take on the vocals lol Seriously though, listen to "Opeth - The Ghost of Perdition" for a contrast between the growls and clean vocals. Mikael Åkerfeldt is a musical genius and an amazing vocalist who has been involved in music from rock to death metal and has left his definitive mark on every subgenre

The vocals are meant to be percussive. Stop thinking of it as singing and instead as a percussive instrument it starts to make sense.

Happy belated birthday mr,ryan...wish you all the best

OVERKILL

Groove metal is the best! Sepultura, Soulfly, Ektomorf, Devildriver etc. love em all

band: 3 INCHES OF BLOOD song: GOAT RIDERS HOARD Dueal vocals with clean and gutteral. Canadian. That's all you need to know.

Looks like I ain't gonna see lost In Vegas react to CANDLEMASS - Demon's Gate/ Solitude in my lifetime.

this "korn feeling" is the Sepultura's influence on Korn musicals inspirations

Ahhh the sweet amazing moment you hear Sepultura for the first time!! I wish I could hear them for the first time again!

"Yeah,that's nasty" "Mhhm" "Ah yeah,nasty" "Mhhm" "That's it right there" "Yeah" "That was hard" "Yup"

Ryan & George are gonna flip the script on us in about a yr or so & start their own Metal band. They are actually writing down the perfect recipe for Global Dominating metal by studying every ones comments & understanding what the perfect groove, singing & other sound technics make for a perfect raise your fists, stomp your boots song.

From what I remember Max Cavalera telling me when I spoke to him in Hawaii back in 1994, He said a lot of the songs were based off of experiences that he had as a child growing up in Belo Horizonte. It was about the massive corruption in the Brazilian government, and the violence towards the people of Brazil and that no one cares that children are dying in the streets and the elderly are being starving poisoned as well as the people who live in the rainforest... the indigenous people are being mistreated and slaughtered for the acres of land that they live on that they called her home and nothing is being said by the media anywhere in the world.

Hey guys! The whole Roots album was recorded to bring about the history and culture of our indigenous people, who are marginalized and killed and suffered a whole lot. This song in particular is just about believing in yourself and trusting your own native roots, and be proud of it, don't let them take it away from you, basically. In my opinion, you guys should listen to something from their Chaos A.D. album, like Territory, Refuse/Resist and Nomad. And as far as vocals go, Max is a "love it or hate it" type, pretty much. Keep on with the great job! And again, try some Lamb of God and such

Also they were the first big Brazilian metal band to arise after the dictatorship ended in i think 1985 which i believe was an influence on this song. Giving hope to Brazilian metal fans who didnt have metal until that ended. And then as youve already been told, they used traditional Brazilian tribal instruments with help from an actual Brazilian tribe. Love Sepultura, amd you guys. Keep killin it big homies 🤘

I think that the reasons you're succesful at what you're doing and being loved by metal fans are that you are really open minded, have a great perspective for looking at things and have really good music ear. But I believe the main thing is that you give such reactions to such songs that we see ourselves when we were listening them for the first time. We listened so many metal songs for so many times that we forgot how we were affected at the beginning I guess, and you guys reminding those times to us by your great observations and reactions. Keep up the good work, I love you guys, and do more GOJIRA....

Keep in mind Sepultura *_introduced_* tribal-drums style to metal; they defined the 'new' sub-genre. The album Chaos A.D. demonstrates (imho) more what their message is as a band.

You are loosing time. OPETH is the band that mixes pretty nasty death growls with very beautiful melody parts. Same vocalist. For example: Opeth - Ghost of Perdition (studio version)

Yeah I'm pretty sure I couldn't get down on this tune with a different vocal style. However I have been listening to this album 20 years now..conditioned..yes. Please react to DEATH, SYMBOLIC MUCH LOVE as always. Yo Ryan..Happy Birthday.

The groove and the vocals are exactly the reason why I'm obsessed with this song

I WILL STILL FIGHT FOR MASTODON !! any song is good I recomend Oblivion , Blood and Thunder , Curl of the burl , Sultan's curse

SEPULTURA DO BRASIL!

I know the lyrics can be quite generic here, but sure they're talking about all the blood and violence related to slavery and slaughter of African and the indigenous people in Brazil, and people in general nowadays being ashamed of those peoples' cultural legacy. Cheers from Brazil!

Roots is great, but I prefer Chaos AD. That’s the ultimate anti-colonial record.

Great choice, still think you should do Pantera - Domination '91 in Moscow. It'll blow your mind

About the thing you said about vocals, I think in heavy metal, vocals is like an instrument. That’s the reason heavy metal vocalists sound so harsh. Their voice is one of the instruments in the band. :) you guys rock! Love from Iran. ❤️🤘

OPETH BLEAK. You guys should definately listen to a song from Opeth. They do a great job of mixing harsh vocals with cleaner, more melodic ones. The best song to do a reaction video to would be BLEAK from their best album BLACKWATER PARK.

You guys should review rhatamahatta from sepultra

React to Devin Townsend Kingdom @ EMGtv. I think you guys would really appreciate the talent.

Sepultura are important because they merge brazilian samba with metal in a non corny way, its funny you guys mentioned groove at 1:59 because Sepultura are usually named one of the most prominent sub genres of metal which is called groove metal. Great content as always guys ,if you get the chance please react to DEFTONES - DIGITAL BATH

Happy birthday, Ryan.

Those lyrics and the "bloody roots" are refering to the widespread massacre of indigenous south americans that took place during the colonization proccesss. The Amazon rivers is almost 5 miles across and it must have turned red at the time, the numbers are ridiculous. That massacre still goes on by the way. The food industry here is ridiculously large (if you look that up you'll find that Brazil exports the vast majority of all the crops and meat it produces) and it grows at an ever faster rate, to the point that it's endagering the Amazon and promoting indian massacres in order to clear more land for farming. We have more cattle than people, literally. And this industry actually runs the government so ecologists are powerless and have nothing to do but to keep on studying and trying to appeal to the world to force our government to do something about it. We are watching the most precious sanctuary of life on Earth AND it's native inhabitants being massacred for centuries, and we're reaching the point of no return in those ecosystems, and believe me, the whole world will be struck with major natural catastrophe if the Amazon doesn't get the proper time to recover, 'cause if you look at the globe, all other regions in that latitude are deserts. It won't take much more to turn the Amazon into a desert. The natives fight to preserve the little pieces of what's left of their homeland, so yeah, the roots of the jungle are bathing in blood for centuries now. And that's the raw, ugly and powerful truth the vocalist is screaming at your face in this song, in a visceral way, to a point that you can't actually make out much from the lyrics but the feeling is very real to me. I'm not indian btw, I'm a white ass motherfucker living in the southeast, here we got other ecosystems such as the "mata atlântica" and the "caatinga". There's not much left of them too, as you could probably guess. Your videos are really inspiring and I had a great time, I've known all those rock and metal songs all my life and it was long since I enjoyed them properly like they deserve, it was awesome. Thanks a lot.

I'm not sure how Dead Embryonic Cells lost to this song. Dead Embryonic Cells is well composed.

"It's about believe in yourself, about be proud of your heritage, proud of where you come from. Really powerful but simple lyrics. So it's really about just be down with your own roots and believe in your roots." - Max Cavalera

gojira flying whales

This is one of the angriest, most uncompromising, heaviest and most forward thinking metal songs ever

Pantera - Domination (Moscow)! If you want softer vocals with a heavy sound, go back to Killswitch Engage (Howard on vocals) and check them out again. Or Deftones.

Definitely need Opeth - Ghost Of Perdition and Gojira - Flying Whales, those songs are masterpieces

As far as I understand it, the band went out and recorded the album in the wilds with the native Brazilian indians. The song as far as I know is about preserving the native pre-christian cultural aspects of the country. The Portuguese slaughtered many and conquered the country and if I'm not mistaken, there is a sizable faction of the country that would like to see a return to the old ways. Again, I'm not totally sure but that was my understanding. Hopefully someone else in the comments can provide a better explanation/confirmation.

Max Cavaliera has a great voice. He has one of the best growls.

The grooves ment to sound like a "berimbau" a brazilian one string instrument that is used in capoeira

07:16 , “This has a Korn feel to it” Hmmm...Funny you should mention that George but maybe you should reverse that statement cause many Korn songs have a Sepultura feel to them.After all, and I think a fella mentioned it before me, Sepultura has paved the way for nu-metal with this album and especially that song.After all, Jonathan Davies has stated that Sepultura has been a major influence to him and his band Korn.Just sayin’...

The whole album has been written based in a mix of heavy metal and tribal drum beats. They recorded this song using, as an inspiration, beats from a tribe of indians called Xavantes. This tribe is located in North of Brazil. The song tries to pass the message we all have our origins and, in Brazil, the original/first habitants are the indians but the goverment do not treat them with deserved respect.

If I am remembering it correctly, Sepultura recorded this with actual indigenous peoples in Brazil and used a lot of their primitive instruments as well. So, if you listen to the rest of the album, there will be times when you will hear landscapes and chants that are legit from the indigenous areas of Brazil. This is one of the most ground breaking metal albums to ever be made in my humble opinion.

Please do Devin Townsend Project- kingdom

A few thoughts here. 1. The difficulty in understanding the concept of the record and the meaning of the lyrics proves how, despite being a globally acclaimed album, sung entirely in English, "Roots" is still mostly targeted at Brazilian audiences. When it came out here, it meant a lot not only because it was the creative coming of age of a great band, but because it was unthinkable for a local metal band to acknowledge Native Brazilian or African Brazilian culture. In fact, most metal bands in Brazil were founded precisely under the principle of DENYING what is usually seen as "Brazilian culture". It took one of the most popular bands in the world (which Sepultura was at that point) to be bold enough to take that step. In "Roots", Sepultura not only went into a Xavante Indian reservation to record (something they were tapping into since their former album, "Chaos AD"), but also wrote songs with Carlinhos Brown, a mainstream black artist that represented the opposite of what the largely white, middle class metal culture was about. They faced strong criticism for that, but the record was so good that it certainly changed a lot of minds - it was our The Clash meets the Furious Five moment, something that still resonates more 20 years later. One can imagine how big of a challenge would be to put that into words for foreign audiences. Still, it's debatable whether Max Cavalera could or could not have made a bigger effort in that direction, since they already had global reach. 2. Sepultura was a highly influential band and were at their peak when Max Cavalera abruptly left in 1997. Musically, they evolved from a thrash/death style to grind and then to something genuinely original. "Roots", to my understanding, is the founding piece of nu-metal, for good and for bad. Max's singing style is not only a development inside of that stream os music, but it's also an embodiment of that change. It's extreme to the point of not alienating core audiences, but it's also a nod to a groovier, more mellow style that would inform acts like Korn and Limp Bizkit. I understand that it may sound odd and annoying to untrained ears, but bear in mind that it belongs to a school that had been in development for almost 30 years by then. So it makes total sense to heavy metal fans. But the most remarkable is that, even sounding very aggressive, it broke ground both in Brazil and abroad, and it played a central role in the mainstream metal revival of the post-grunge era. That said, I love your reacts and reviews. Very original and insightful, it makes me feel like I'm listening to all that stuff again. Keep up the great work.

The first time I heard this album, it chewed me up, spat me out, and crushed my ball's. And I loved every fuckin' second of it!

You guys talked about the guitars on this song having the Korn sound. Both albums were produced by Ross Robinson.

You gotta do either "Demanufacture" or "Zero Signal" from Fear Factory (Zero Signal would be better!!!!)

Happy Birthday my dude. You want melodic vocals? Stargazer by Rainbow.

I love sepultura but who the hell voted for this over their other classics?

Seriously, I'm so glad I found this show. I love the presentation, the open mindedness, and the passion y'all present. I don't know if y'all are from the same background as me, but that's what I love about this show. It brings together people from all backgrounds to view as one. Shout out to all the free thinkers. People are people, we should have a good time and love one another. Celebrate our differences, they are what makes us beautiful. I love this album for that reason too.

MASTODON - BLOOD AND THUNDER!!!!!

GOJIRA- L'enfant Suavage!!! This song will blow your mind!

React to Amon Amarth - Deciever of the Gods please

The screaming is raw energy! Raw power! It's primal! Turn it up loud and sing along. You'll get it! It's not meant to be heard quietly. Most metal isn't. You should consider that when listening to other metal songs.

React to Misfits - Scream!

IM BROKEN PANTERA

Sepultura was a major influence in Gojira's music. In fact they still cover songs from them in their shows.

Opeth-Ghost of Perdition

Happy birthday, man! Great job! I'd recommend you stop trying the 'heaviest' metal, it will beharder for you to like it. There are many metal bands that are great for you to react to. I know you already did Black Sabbath, but you need to listen to the Dio years. React to Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell, please? Greetings from Argentina!

9:03 'oh man' kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

hey mates, greetings from brasil.. i'm not a hardcore fan of the band but a interesting fact about this album is that they recorded the drum beat in native brasilian communities then made the guitar, bass and vocal based on it.. if i'm not mistaked it was with the communities of central brasil, in mato grosso where still exists natives and of course the original fauna of pantanal. nowadays the communities are fighting the imperialism of the cattle industry. hope you find it helpfull!! and to finish it a suggestion, try some early metal, as you did with black sabbath... deep purple, led zeppelin are a good way to start.. see you here farewell

If you like groove in metal then you've got to listen to Pantera. Just pick anything from Pantera man.

Hey guys! Whats up?! Talking a little bit about this record, Cavalera brothers lived a month in a native tribe (like the one in the record cover). All the songs in this record talks about the injustice that Brazil people and government do with this people (who were here before the portuguese came and slay most of 'em). Hope it explains some about the lyrics and the songs (sorry about my english)! ;)

Belo Horizonte ❤️

You need to react to something off of chaos A.D. by Sepultura. Way more interesting tracks and some better lyrics.

Should have tried a track from Arise. This track is too sensational and gets boring very quickly after a few listens. This track is known by older American fans because it was the first song Sepultura had on American radio, but Arise has material that that stands through time. Strangely, looking back at this track, it was one of the first de-tuned guitar tracks on American corporate radio following on Korn's first album release. Still seems to me that if you want the real Sepultura, you should hear something from Arise or Beneath the Remains. Better drummer for Sepultura than Korn, but Korn had a better overall feel on their first album.

ratamahatta is a very cool song on the same album, very tribal

Sepultura! Max cavalera!

How the hell did Refuse/Resist not get voted for? Even Territory would have been better than this.

Domination live at Moscow - Pantera. You definitely won't be disappointed.

Happy birthday Ryan! Love your honest reaction. People either love of hate this song. If you read the comments, Sepultura fans are begging for you to listen to another song as if your honest reaction is going to change, like you will be converted. Max's vocals are what they are.

Saw this band LIVE in SOUTH AFRICA!!! They played this track... it was brutally fun to be in the pit

I think you guys would definitely enjoy Opeth. Ghost of perdition, The Leper Affinity, or Baying of the hounds.

It's time to move on to Opeth. Their musicianship and songwriting will blow you away like Gojira did. That said, you'll need to hear several tracks as they're all different: Bleak, The Drapery Falls, Reverie/Harlequin Forest...

this is Brazil caralho!

Huge fan of Sepultura, pre-Roots. Never “got” this album. This launched their and subsequently Max’s solo tribal metal tangent, which I’ve just never been into. I feel like introducing them to Sepultura through Roots was a huge missed opportunity. How about starting them off with a song from one of the following amazing albums? Something like: - Beneath the Remains - Inner Self or Mass Hypnosis - Arise - Altered State, Desperate Cry, or Dead Embryonic Cells - Chaos AD - Territory, Slave New World, or Propaganda I’d stack those 3 albums, and even throw in Schizophrenia as necessary, up against the best 3/4 releases of any other metal band. Period. Big 4 included. \m/

Opeth - Ghost of Perdition

Metallica- One

O P E T H

Brazilian here, hope you guys like this legendary song!

This isn't their best song. You had a masterpiece of a song in dead embryonic cells in your poll options. This is like picking sad but true over master of puppets or something. This was one of their most simple songs. Cells also had one of the best breakdowns in metal imo. Cells or desperate cry would be tracks I think you guys would like. That's when they were young and hungry. Hopefully you give those a listen ASAP.

Death - Flesh And The Power It Holds

Cult of personality by living color

The whole album is my favorite to workout to. 'Roots' to feel like an animal. Fear Factory 'Demanufacture' to feel like a machine.

Machine head davidian

You should have done Devin Townsend if you wanted heavy with melodic vocals. Kingdom is a crazy song

Deftones has heavy music but melodic vocals

As a drummer who has personally preformed the gambit from speed metal to hip hop both live and in the studio, I love how you guys can hear the groove of the beat and can hear how it would translate to hip hop via beat boxing. You just gave me a drummer chubby. Mad props to LIV.

Mastodon - Oblivion

People are really picking the worst shit from great bands.

Sepultura, the brazilian pride!

Fear Factory - Zero Signal

SOULFLY : Back to the Primitive

Happy Birthday Ryan! You guys have to checkout Twilight of the Thunder God by Amon Amarth! Love to see you guys react lol!

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - KNOW YOUR ENEMY PLEEEEEEEEEASE!!!

As the lead track for this album I had to have played this song at least 20 times in a row before continuing. That breakdown was so heavy and the drums just pounded the beat into your chest. Love the reaction guys!