During the mid-90s, an era when both Brit pop and alternative rock overtook metal as the zeitgeist genre for guitar music, many heavy bands were left searching for new sounds and new approaches to their music. This yielded some incredible advancements and amazing albums, but not tons of commercial success.
Surely, then, an underground death metal band from Brazil releasing a song name-checking some of their country's most notorious outlaws, performed entirely in Portuguese, alongside an indigenous tribe and a Latin soul singer, complete with a nightmarish, stop-motion animated promotional video could never be a hit...right? But that's what happened when Sepultura released their final ever single with frontman Max Cavalera: Ratamahatta.
