Beneath the Remains

Beneath the Remains
A skull on a background of black. On the cranium are a variety of things: a bright red circular area above the frontal eminence that gives the impression of a heat source, three roses in full bloom surround this red area on the skull's left-hand side, a tile with the number "3" (with a spider in its web below), and some coins (one with a triangle and one with what appears to be the numbers 981 below it). Above the eye sockets and beneath the largest rose is a bat with its toothed mouth open as if screeching. The skull's left side has features that appear as types of coral. The left eye socket of the skull has a dim blue glow as if something is still living. The skull's left parietal bone has a large piece missing and smoke emanates from the hole. On the skull's right-hand side there appears to be another smaller skull attached. The band name "SEPULTURA" appears at the top left in a red uppercase font while on the middle far right the words of the album title are printed uppercase vertically but with the words placed in a staggered pattern to the right, finishing with a red vertical bar "underlining" (sidelining?) the last word.
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 7, 1989
RecordedDecember 15–28, 1988
StudioNas Nuvens Studio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Genre
Length41:48
LabelRoadrunner
Producer
Sepultura chronology
Schizophrenia
(1987)
Beneath the Remains
(1989)
Arise
(1991)

Beneath the Remains is the third studio album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, released on April 7, 1989. It was their first release by Roadrunner Records.

Continuing in the death/thrash metal vein of its predecessor Schizophrenia (1987), the album had improved production and songwriting compared to the band's previous works.[3] In time it would be acclaimed as a classic in the thrash metal genre.[4][5] According to vocalist Max Cavalera, Sepultura had "really found [their] style" on this album.[3] In January 2013, Beneath the Remains was inducted into Decibel magazine's Hall of Fame, becoming the second Sepultura album to do so, the first being Roots. This induction would make Sepultura the first band to have more than one of their albums being featured in the Decibel Hall of Fame.[6]

  1. ^ GATECREEPER'S CHASE MASON: SEPULTURA'S 'BENEATH THE REMAINS' IS "A GATEWAY" "Since its release in April of 1989, Sepultura's Beneath the Remains has risen in stature from a cult favorite to a bona fide thrash-metal classic. The Brazilian band's third album, and first for Roadrunner Records, regularly ranks in metalheads' and critics' best-of-the-Eighties lists, alongside genre-definers like Slayer's Reign in Blood and Metallica's Kill 'Em All."
  2. ^ [https://www.allmusic.com/album/beneath-the-remains-mw0000653932 "The complete absence of filler here makes this one of the most essential death/thrash metal albums of all time"
  3. ^ a b Kay (1997), from the liner notes of Beneath the Remains.
  4. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Beneath the Remains – Sepultura". AllMusic. Retrieved December 15, 2008.
  5. ^ Terrorizer #109 (2003), page 35 (author unknown).
  6. ^ Dick, Chris (January 3, 2013). "Sepultura – "Beneath the Remains"". Decibel. Retrieved May 11, 2018.

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