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Roots
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0016861890025
Label: Roadrunner Records
Manufacturer: Roadrunner Records
MPN: 618900
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Roadrunner Records
Release Date: March 12, 1996
Studio: Roadrunner Records
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Editorial Review:
If Sepultura's album Chaos A.D. established the band as more than just another death metal outfit, Roots expands both its search for identity and its quest for sheer aural destruction. Frontman Max Cavalera explores his past in "Roots, Bloody Roots" and "Endangered Species," and plays with a remote Brazilian tribe on "Rattamahatta". Elsewhere, Sepultura experiments with minor-key dynamics and atonal harmonics, imbuing their wall of noise with an oppressive sense of mystery. They also extend their musical horizons, adding clattering tin drums and what sounds like a jew's-harp to "Breed Apart," and garnishing "Lookaway" with DJ scratching, half-speed vocals, and a gothic, chiming mid-section. --Jon Wiederhorn
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Still Stands in top 5 of 1996
I popped this in after having spent almost 10 years away from it... and I have to say that this album inspires.
It is not as technical as any of their previous works, but does leap off where Chaos AD left off.
The goal here... was a return to simplicity. We all know they can write technically inspired and classical riffs... they knew that too. The goal is no more apparent than when you look at the cover and title of the album. The fact remains that an album of this ... Read More
Rating:  - Under a pale grey sky, we shall..................SELL OUT!!!!!!
Sep. broke into the mainstream with Beneath and Arise. I though Chaos would end up being a misstep. WRONG!!!
Good title track........the rest sucks.
With Seps. new found fame they started touring with bigger name bands and they obviously took the WRONG advice from these bands. They abandoned their speed and brutality for what?
Jungle music?
Garbage?
All of the above? Yes.
Boring, unlistenable, unmemorable.
Skip this musical turd and go with Beneath or Arise.
Rating: - The birth of Soulfly....right here....and a new sound
You can see the birth of Soulfly on Roots...at the time a pioneering CD where the fast slowed down, and tuned down...to create a crushing new sound. Highly recomended, along with Skinlab...SkinnedAlive the live Cd that's new is incredible!Skinned Alive
Rating:  - Is this Sepultura or Soulfly
Ok, first of all...is this soulfly or Sepultura. All the tracks on this album sound like a heavy Soulfly. Sepultura has now totally lost their edge with the off-time thrash/death metal that their REAL roots were, what made one of the top metal acts of the 80s and 90s. This album all the makings of a nu-metal(Soulfly) album. Very basic riffs, very stupid lyrics, and very basic jams in the songs. The complexity of Igor's drumming, Andreas' guitar and riffing and Max's growling has all left for nu-metal ... Read More
Rating: - a metal classic
I believe this was one of the best metal album of the 90's. Sepultura are much more influential the they are given credit. Finally there was a band that used the heavy death metal sound with lyrics with actual meaning rather than just relying on shock value. I'm not saying the lyrics were splitting the atom but they were much more mature than what death/black metal had been doing for the last 10 years. The funny thing is when I first heard Roots I did not realize they were the same band that I had ... Read More
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