The Making and Legacy of Sepultura's 'Chaos A.D.': A Watershed Metal Album
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Jon Wiederhorn
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This article explores the making and impact of Sepultura's 1993 album 'Chaos A.D.', which marked the band's major-label debut and a stylistic shift from conventional thrash metal toward a more experimental sound blending hardcore, punk, tribal music, and extreme metal. The piece highlights producer Andy Wallace's role in shaping the album, and touches on the album's influence on nu-metal and the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Additional context includes recording in a castle and the band's arrest for flag desecration.
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· 4 pulledEvery serious Sepultura fan knows 1993's Chaos A.D. was a watershed moment for the Brazilian group.
Not only was it their major-label debut, it was the album with which they burst out of the conventional thrash ghetto and became recognized globally as a modern, inventive group.
Inspired by hardcore, punk, tribal music and extreme metal, Sepultura were determined to make an album that would set them on a new musical path.
But it was producer Andy Wallace who helped them get there.
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