Album · Sepultura
Roots by Sepultura
Roots is an album by Sepultura, released in 1996. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 20 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Roots Bloody Roots”, on 18 lists with a best position of #10.
Roots, Sepultura's sixth album, hit Europe on February 20, 1996 and America three weeks later on Roadrunner, and it's the sound of a Brazilian metal band digging all the way down into its own soil. After the slower, Latin-tinged grooves of Chaos A.D., Max Cavalera, Igor Cavalera, Andreas Kisser and Paulo Jr. went further, bringing in Carlinhos Brown to shape the tribal percussion sections and weaving a Xavante chant through the record as a kind of thread. It's a deliberate salute to Brazil's indigenous people.
Ross Robinson, fresh off Korn's first two albums, produced, and the riffs bounce and lurch with a nu-metal swagger; Korn's Jonathan Davis and David Silveria, DJ Lethal and Mike Patton all turn up on "Lookaway". "Roots Bloody Roots" still hits like a landslide. It became their highest-charting album, sold over two million copies worldwide, and was Max's last studio album with the band before he left in late 1996.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Roots on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Roots Bloody Roots | 18 | #10 | – | 2009–2026 | |
| 2 | Ratamahatta | 2 | #52 | – | 2009–2011 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.