Sepultura – Roorback (2003)

September 25, 2023

I’m loathe to rate this lower than a 3/5 because of how inventive it is for what is essentially nu metal. As far as Sepultura goes, this period is definitely a low point in their career, but truly, all elements analysed, this really isn’t that bad. There’s one thing you can do for me, though, and that is to promise to avoid the absolutely fucking godawful remaster of this thing. I don’t know if the engineer was smoking crack or something, but the original is the far, far superior version by country miles.

Roorback gets quite punky in parts, which is nice when mixed in with the rather boring groove riffs (sorry) and the tribal sessions. As always, Igor’s drumming is outstanding and for the most part, the songwriting is rather good, give or take the odd uninspired riff. Oh, and “Bullet The Blue Sky” was the first ever Sepultura song I ever heard, when I saw the (awful) video on some music TV channel as a teenager.

Today I learned: the guy from Converge drew the album cover. It’s still awful, even though it was done by a good artist lol