Sepultura
Quadra
Release Date: Feb 7, 2020
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal, Speed/Thrash Metal
Record label: Nuclear Blast
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Album Review: Quadra by Sepultura
Excellent, Based on 3 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
Sepultura's legacy can be divided into three rough eras: Max, Igor and Derrick. Though their name will forever by synonymous with the Cavalera brothers, Derrick Green has seen Sepultura through the majority of their touring career. He's been a beast of a frontman for almost 25 years, and his work on Machine Messiah in 2017 ranks among the 2010s' greatest thrash moments. Quadra has a lot to live up to riding on the back of that monster. If Machine Messiah was Sepultura's proggy experimental record, Quadra is their symphonic phase. The ….
Based on rating 8/10
Sepultura has "enjoyed" a very spotty reputation among fans since the late 1990s when founding vocalist Max Cavalera left and was replaced by Derrick Green. After all, their first six albums -- especially the trilogy that began with Schizophrenia and ended with 1991's Chaos A.D. -- are universally regarded as definitive thrash metal offerings. Later outings were saturated in groove metal or so experimental listeners had a tough time hanging on.
Opinion: Very Good
Co-founded in 1984 by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, Sepultura soon put themselves on the map of the global metal scene with their unique Afro-Brazilian groove metal, as epitomised by the unrivalled albums 'Chaos A. D. ' and 'Roots'.
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