Trivia / Sepultura

• Breakthrough Hit: Due to the band signing to Roadrunner Records at the time, Beneath the Remains is considered this. The followup Arise was a bigger hit which sold over a million copies worldwide^note a rare feat for an extreme metal album and is considered to be Sepultura's most celebrated album.
• False Credit: While bassist Paulo Jr. is the only band member to be credited on every album the band released, frontman Max Cavalera later admitted that lead guitarists Andreas Kisser and Jairo Guedz played bass on the band's first five albums, due to Paulo's bass playing at the time being considered unsatisfactory. Paulo would make his actual recording debut on 1993's Chaos A.D.
• He Also Did: Max voiced the CG Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns.
• Promoted Fanboy: Derrick Green was a fan of Sepultura before replacing Max Cavalera.
• The Pete Best: Jairo Guedz and Wagner Lamounier, the latter of whom left before the band recorded albums.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The band originally got in contact with Jello Biafra because they wanted him to cowrite a song about neonazis, "something like 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off - Part 2'". Jello wasn't interested in remaking his old songs, but offered them some lyrics he recently wrote while attending an ecological conference, which became "Biotech Is Godzilla".
  • They were offered to be the opening act in the United States leg of the Clash of the Titans tour headlined by Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax, but according to Max Cavalera, they "got kicked out" and were replaced by Alice in Chains.
  • When Max left, several other singers auditioned for the band before Derrick was chosen. According to Andreas, among those who tried for the position were Jason Jones, Phil Demmel, Jorge Rosado (Merauder), Marc Grewe (Morgoth), and Chuck Billy - needless to say, things could have been quite a bit different had things turned out otherwise (although Grewe does have a fairly similar voice to Green, especially on his more recent work).
• Working Title: Dante XXI was Dante 05, but they changed the number from the year to the century once it was clear it wouldn't come out in 2005.

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