“If it wasn’t working, I could see the point of changing. But we were more successful than ever. It was incomprehensible”: The tumultuous story of Sepultura’s Roots album and their bitter split

Sepultura posing for a photograph in 1996.

Sepultura’s 1996 album Roots was one of the most pivotal albums of that decade, priming the band for even bigger success - but instead it prompted the departure of frontman Max Cavalera and the end of the band’s classic line-up. In 2018, all four members looked back on how Brazil’s greatest band snatched defeat from the jaws of victory,

Sepultura were one of the greatest and most unexpected success stories of the mid-90s. Four kids from the cultural backwater of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, they journeyed from sub-underground death metal no-hopers into global ambassadors for their home country, and for metal as a whole.