Favela to Billboard #27 — Sepultura CONQUERED America with an indigenous tribe

In nineteen ninety-six, a metal band from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, flew into the Cerrado savanna to record with an indigenous tribe whose only rule was this: the songs had to come from a dream. The album they made debuted at number twenty-seven on the US Billboard two hundred — the highest any Brazilian metal album had ever charted in American history. Sepultura formed in nineteen eighty-four, two brothers with nothing but a tape recorder and a hunger to be heard. By the mid-nineties, they were one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. Then they did something no metal band had ever done: they went back to the land. Literally. In this video, I trace the full arc — from a working-class neighborhood in Minas Gerais to the top of the American charts — and explain why Roots is the most Brazilian thing metal has ever produced. This is the story you've never heard. #Sepultura #BrazilianMetal #Roots #MetalHistory #BrazilianMusic #MusicDocumentary #WorldMusic #Xavante