Arise by Sepultura

Arise, Sepultura's fourth studio album, came out on Roadrunner in March 1991, and it's the Belo Horizonte band charging through the door their breakthrough Beneath the Remains had kicked open. Recorded at Morrisound with Scott Burns producing, it pushes their death-thrash assault further, tighter and more technical, while slipping in the first traces of industrial clank, hardcore punk and Latin percussion.

This is the band founded by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, with Max barking and riffing, Igor pounding like a machine and Andreas Kisser's guitar slashing alongside. The metal press went wild for it, and the tour that followed ran to 220 shows in 39 countries across 1991 and 1992. Along the way it went gold in Indonesia, the band's first certification, and by the end it had sold platinum worldwide. Decibel later added it to its Hall of Fame, and it is widely considered Sepultura's greatest album.

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