Live in Săo Paulo

AMG Review of Live in Săo Paulo

Greg Prato
All Music Guide

As far as heaviness and intensity go, Sepultura were one of the top live metal bands of the late '80s/early '90s, during their Max Cavalera era. But with singer Derrick Green a member of Sepultura for nearly ten years by 2005, the time was right to document what the latter era of Sepultura could do on-stage, as evidenced by Live in Săo Paulo. The double-disc set includes selections from throughout the Brazilian metal band's career, while Sepultura gives a metal makeover to a few interesting covers from non-metal bands: Public Enemy's "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" and U2's "Bullet the Blue Sky." Elsewhere, you can't go wrong with power-packed versions of the Sepultura classics "Refuse/Resist," "Territory," "Biotech Is Godzilla," "Dead Embryonic Cells," a set-closing rendition of "Roots Bloody Roots," and such latter-day tracks as "Choke" and "Apes of God." As evidenced by Live in Săo Paulo, Sepultura can still unleash the fury on-stage.