“Arise” by Sepultura

"Arise" gave Sepultura their first official single, the first of three pulled from the 1991 album it named, and it's a thrash metal onslaught that has become one of the band's best-known songs. The music is credited to Max and Igor Cavalera, Andreas Kisser and Paulo Jr., with Max Cavalera alone on the words, and Scott Burns mixed it. Max has called it his favorite Sepultura song and one he's especially proud of.

The band had so little spare material at the time that the B-sides came from the Under Siege (Live in Barcelona) video. The controversial clip, shot in Death Valley, cut the band thrashing away in broad daylight against a gas-masked, Christ-like figure strung up on a cross, and MTV in America banned it over the apocalyptic religious imagery. It survives on the Third World Chaos video.

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