SEPULTURA "Ratamahatta" REACTION & ANALYSIS by Metal Vocalist / Vocal Coach

[@KardavoxAcademy]

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[@rmaiabr]

Just listen this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pV7RiJ6mn5ugr6c

[@franciscoborjaescobarsuare5802]

Carlinhos Brown (Brazilian vocalist and percussionist) is doing the "clean" vocals here One other note they edited the intro for the music video, I know this by heart because I love this song, this song is what sparked my love for drums and percussion instruments

[@Jalabhar_Xho]

For the cultural mix thing you mention: Alien Weaponry is good in that aspect, and their sound is pretty solid.

[@Frostifer25]

I came here to mention this band too. They’re a must-listen.

[@zoefay2358]

Yes! My fave of theirs is Kai Tangata

[@caitlinblt7446]

Alien Weaponry, The Hu, Bloodywood, Brujeria, all have nonwestern cultural influences. Check them all out

[@krishramessur4969]

@@caitlinblt7446 you're so right bout Brujera/Bruheria La migra la migra

[@robertomugabe11]

thank you so much for the recommendation, they are fire

[@neilrussant2418]

Carlinhos brown the co singer is a noted Brazilian percussionist as well as the physical instrument he uses his voice to emote the beats.

[@metallicakevin1]

A follow up with their classic Bloody Roots would be fire 🔥

[@wwyd4akb]

hells yes!

[@shawnfee9107]

One of their best tracks imo

[@Santeria78]

That would be cool!

[@wilsonvitorino]

It would be great. I love this song is the soundtrack to the end of the world 😅

[@mareai1412]

I see you’re a man of culture

[@DarkusImmortalis]

Damn, those were my teenage years. Max Cavalera later founded SOULFLY. Basically the same Tribal Metal stuff, also including some songs in Portuguese. I recommend checking out DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER. It’s a band from Germany that also likes to implement tribal elements in lots of songs. Also vocally the singer is pretty versatile. Might be really interesting for you. Greetings from Germany.

[@ryanjones4917]

I enjoy seeing how passionate this guy is about what he does and the sounds people make in general.

[@Jorgetime]

Project46 is a modern metal band that sings in Portuguese. Oh and Moonspell also have a full album in Portuguese (from Portugal).

[@edu_assis]

Erro +55 would be a great song for Mark to react to.

[@callesacir]

Sepultura, no, is not a modern metal band. And this is their only song in Portuguese.

[@mattvideoeditor]

@@callesacir I believe he is using "modern" to describe Project46, not Sepultura. Also they have other songs with Portuguese vocals, like "Reza" from the album Against.

[@pikyarte]

Great to hear Sepultura on your chance!... 🤘🤘🤘 More Sepultura will be amazing... They was a big band whit great vision for that time... And even this day's they sound gorgeous

[@mrmalcolm]

LOL no, modern Sepultura is pure ass.

[@ramomptbr4146]

Also, about the vocal style that you asked if it is unique of brazil, I can't say for sure this is a brazilian thing, but I've heard it in different afro brazilian folk styles like Maracatu which is an afrobrazilian music and dance style.

[@sleeepwalk]

Sepultura belongs to my youth... I went for concerts... Love the album Arise... Should take a look at the song Dead Embryonic Cells... Or Roots Bloody Roots...

[@luisnunes3863]

OK, Mark, there's Angra, also from Brazil, power metal with native as well as classical influence. There's Eluveitie (said Helvetie) is a mix of metal with screams and celtic music. There's Arkona, a mix of metal with screams and traditional slavic music. There's Rhapsody of Fire, power metal with a ton of italian baroque influence. A splinter called Luca Turilli's Rhapsody is a metal fusion project that mixes metal, classical, electronica, oriental and even plainchant. Want links?

[@franciscoborjaescobarsuare5802]

Some of Arkona's lyrics rubbed me the wrong way but the music is really cool Same thing happens with The Hu (super nationalistic lyrics)

[@osez111]

Speakinf of russian folk, my heart goes to Грай

[@luisnunes3863]

@@osez111 What happened, I haven't heard?

[@osez111]

@@luisnunes3863 i am just saying that i prefer Грай to Arkona

[@luisnunes3863]

@@osez111 I got both on the same playlist.😋😋 Honor to the pioneers, though.

[@historiaefilosofiaparaoens4800]

In the original CD, and also in the latest release (Double CD version), of ROOTS, they actually put the lyrics for this song.... And yes, It is mostly composed of Brazilian culture references, like "maloca", favela, Zé do caixão (Coffin Joe) ....

[@bernardocosta2803]

So glad you've checked Sepultura, they're really famous around here in Brazil! You should check out "Phantom Self" with their new vocalist, Derrick Green or "Territory" for more of Max Cavalera! Another brazilian band that sings in portuguese is Project46, check out "Erro +55" or "Rédeas"

[@dufoot1]

Well, you've said it! It would be AMAZING to see Mark listening to Project46! Caio is an amazing vocalist and such a nice guy! I met him and the band 2 or 3 times when they came to Manaus and they're solid as fuck! Mark can listen to any "Que Seja Feita A Nossa Vontade" music that it would be awesome 'cause there's no bad song in that album.

[@fourtyvi2]

Alien Weaponry - New Zealand / Bloodywood - India / Acrassicauda - Iraq

[@Paaanzaaa]

Well, for Metal including cultural background and traditional influences from the bands locations, check out these: Ektomorf (Hungary), Alien Weaponry (New Zealand), Bloodywood (India), The Hu (Mongolia), Ningen Isu (Japan)

[@shawnfee9107]

I'd say Dir en Grey for Japan. Never heard of Ningen Isu....gonna check them out \m/ edit: they are def interesting, thanks for the new band to jam to!

[@megatryn]

I'd add Trollfest (Norway), specifically their album Norwegian Fairytales

[@caligo7918]

I'd add Eluveitie (Switzerland); In Extremo, Schandmaul, Subway to Sally (Germany); Massive Scar Era (Egyptian Oriental Metal) Europe, especially Scandinavia and Germany, are full of folk metal, but it drops off hard outside of the region.

[@JoaoSergio7]

Well, this album (Roots) is kind of a mess in several senses. Sepultura was going through all sorts of issues, including what we could call an indentity crysis. The band spent 3 days partaking in the life of a native tribe from the central part of Brazil, called Xavante. There they recorded the ceremony featured in the track "Itsári", some elements performed by the natives in other songs and generally gathered inspiration for the album. The "traditional brazilian music" part of it, at least in this song (Ratamahatta) is a mix of some Xavante music and a new genre of brazilian music at the time called manguebeat. I would not call any of these kinds of sounds "traditional" in the sense of being a widespread part of brazilian culture, actually they are quite the contrary. Most indigenous tribes in Brazil are very secluded both geographically and culturally speaking (even a lot of their languages and dialects are not completely understood still today, and have nothing to do with portuguese), so we have a wide variety of bits and pieces of their cultures that were incorporated in our general culture throughout the years, but generally speaking our native tribes and their cultures remain enigmatic and hazy. There is not a lot to be drawn from this album in terms of brazilian culture, certainly not lyrically at least. Ratamahatta, for example, is a made up word, kind of a portmanteau of "Rats of Manhattan". Carlinhos Brown (a very famous musician and artist here in Brazil, he is the one with the clean voice you hear featured in this song), who co-composed this song together with Sepultura, allegedly saw a bunch of rats in the streets when he was visiting New York, then he came up with the title along with most of this song's lyrics, that mostly don't make sense. I totally understand the impact Roots had back in the day, and the role of spreading a bit of "deep brazilian culture" to the world, even to brazilians themselves, but generally speaking Roots is just not a very good album. I would recommend Sepultura's previous album Chaos AD a lot more than this one if you want to hear some brazilian music mixed with metal in a more cohesive way, and early Soulfy if you want to hear more of the enraged tribal stuff. Now if you want to go deeper into brazilian folk and indigenous music, there is a band called Arandu Arakuaa, their songs are entirely sang in Tupi-Guarani, the tongue of a branch of several native tribes from Brazil.

[@poisongodmachine3]

Carái mano, mandou bem demais!

[@stevensellars5587]

Cool background there. Also, Chaos AD is awesome.

[@BirdOfHermes83]

This was long. But very interesting. Thanks! 🤘

[@rolandolero9825]

This song is the most powerful thing I've ever heard!

[@shoggoth9864]

Band like death, Carcass,Obituary, Sepultura are the "roots" of all style of screaming we listen to now, Mark you should react to more of these classics. "Slowly we rot" from the album " slowly we rot" Obituary "Exhume to consume " "symphony of sickness" Carcass "innerself" "beneath the remain" Sepultura "zombie ritual" "scream bloody gore" Death

[@timspellman47]

Sepultura is my favorite metal band and was the best live show I ever saw.

[@Stigma666]

this brings my youth back! back in the day (1991) this was the shit! along with iron maiden , helloween, rammstein, pantera and all the other now"classic"bands...awesome times! side note : he gurgles often. seen them 8 times live :D

[@eviljeep]

That's the song we chose to play at the end of highschool, on the talent show. I was an introverted guy and i wanna prove to anybody that i'm somebody 😅🤟

[@thinkbeyond3457]

OG Sepultura was always my favorite! 🤘👍

[@KevinR1138]

The primal chanting you’re referring to in the background is the guitarist Andreas Kisser and lead singer Max Cavalera constantly chanting “Ratamahatta” over and over.

[@bradjeske7218]

Do this whole album. You should check out Puya. You'll like that as well.

[@morganhayes1589]

"Oasis" "fake,

[@wilsonvitorino]

My first encounter with Sepultura was when i saw the video Refuse/Resist in MTV Brasil... i was 10 years old

[@KardavoxAcademy]

That must have been quite the experience!

[@aliasfakename2267]

Mine was this song mtv Canada and I was 8

[@gertstraatenvander4684]

Zé do caixão, Zumbi, Lampiao. One of them a character in a Brazilian movie, the other two historical figures. Zumbi was a leader of the largest slave uprisinng in Brazis and Lampiao was a rebel/bandit in Northeastern Brazil. But yeah, the sounds these names make are pretty awesome.

[@wtwolverine16]

96' my graduating year. I was YEARS into fandom. If you new thrash back in the day, you knew real Sepultura.

[@EbizzerHH]

Still amazed after all this years by this crazy amazing band! Pure, raw, tribal power! Dave Grohl once said btw. that they always to aim at the sound of this album, cause it is THAT amazing and in some sort the gold standard of production! Love it still and it hasn't aged by any means! Unique and golden! Love from germany... Sepultura is not JUST big in Brazil! 🤘🤘🤘

[@AlexCaranha]

That was a very good vocal analysis. The best I ever watched. Congratulations from Brazil.

[@aethyrien]

I flipped the fuck out when I heard you mention Shpongle. Mad respect.

[@jacobmattox17]

So glad to see you do Sepultura, never too late to get into them.

[@jasonmordecai8212]

First listened to this back in 96 and was literally mind blown 🤯

[@JSpradley123]

Moonspell did an entire album in Portuguese called 1755. It’s damn good. They’d be a good band for an analysis too!

[@elnombre91]

I've not seen that music video in so long, but that properly takes me back to my teenage years when it would play on the channels that just constantly played music videos. Absolute banger. I'd love to hear you react to an Archspire track. The most ridiculously fast death metal vocals I've ever heard, Ollie has crazy technique(s).

[@DaronMGL]

He has done Involuntary Doppelganger: kzbin.info/www/bejne/goe2oaWNmdGBoLc

[@elnombre91]

@@DaronMGL Wow, now I feel dumb. I looked a few days ago to see if he'd done one of their tracks and didn't see it.

[@lanceshirey7439]

Max has sounded the same through all these years.... one of my top 5

[@yourmominapita]

Orphaned land is a great band from israel which mixes metal with western asian and oriental music while promoting a message of peace between all 3 major religions

[@icedvengence3845]

Sapari Or the one with Hansi from Blind Guardian

[@billiam2631]

I remember in high school I found sepultura .. I don't remember if it was this one or Chaos AD but I remember getting it the mail from Columbia house or BMG .. I was hooked . Such a good band 👍👍

[@denvercriss78]

Nailbomb is a side project of Max cavalera and you may want to check it out

[@j_lemon]

You are an interesting person. Thank you for the video. Cheers from Brazil.

[@albaficaofficial3139]

Hey Mark, another great video. Btw, I'm brazillian and I recommend you to listen to Project46, they are from São Paulo, search for the song "Pânico".

[@aliasfakename2267]

This music video blew my 8yr old mind when it released, may be nostalgia but I always wondered why this track wasn't more popular.

[@KardavoxAcademy]

It's blowing my mind right now, I can't imagine seeing it when I was 8!!

[@aliasfakename2267]

@@KardavoxAcademy thankfully I had a cool uncle to introduce me to great music. Thanks for the reply

[@SKEC212]

My very first concert was Sepultura and Pantera about 30 years ago.

[@Sophie-cat-]

The version on the two meter live sesions is amazing. In my opinion the best version i have heard.

[@dandadrumman]

Please do more Max Cavalera stuff. I love his style.

[@thijmen8487]

This was so relaxing to watch!! I dont know anything about vocals but I like all the sounds you're making :)

[@bob-a-saursrex3662]

Theres a metal band from Puerto Rico called Puya that has used Puertorican folk music in they're songs.They were around the same time a sepultura and I saw the play with system of a down and mr.bungle in 1999.

[@jensragas9353]

Wow you should listen to the Chaos ad Album by Sepultura. The Album Roots From them, I would say, has many Elements that you her today in Deathcore and the like.

[@Metalik00]

This is a tiny list of bands and songs I listen to that have ethnical sounds: - Bloodywood (indian): Machi Bhasad, Gaddaar, Jee Veerey... All their songs!!! YOU MUST LISTEN TO THEM ABSOLUTLY - Soulfly (another Cavalera brothers band): Sangue de Bairro - Sepultura: Refuse/Resist (better song of all time) - Overdose (another brezilian band): I can't remember which song is in portugues - Jambinai (corean): They keep silence 그들은 말이 없다 ,

[@29once]

Another band worth checking out in this style is Laberinto (from Venezuela). Their "freakeao" album was pretty awesome.

[@aaronsirkman8375]

Oh shit, Mark is a Shpongle fan! Color me pleasantly surprised.

[@zoliizs2300]

So cool. Brings back so many memories, when I was a kid I always adored the song, but couldn't watch the clip. It was to scary :)))

[@TheArchKnight]

Imagine Sepultura playing this at Woodstock 99. That'd have been fire!

[@frankcastle7427]

it is indescribably cool to watch other people geek out in the same way that i once did, over songs that defined my youth and my personal musical journey. when it comes from a channel and an artist that i already respect and watch (and now listen to, let me say I really dig that new Kardashev album), it is even better. cheers

[@KardavoxAcademy]

Thanks so much for the kind words dude, and for watching!

[@Ze_Davila]

dude, that video actually surprised me, i'm glad to see that you liked our stuff, because i really like yours. if you want more portuguese metal songs, we have project 46, my favorite song is "panico" from their last album. Pray for mercy is another awesome deathcore band that we have, check threir song "anexo III: invocação" if you want to. "Project MishraM - Kanakana ft. Kmac2021" an indian influenced metal song with all that microtonal vocal stuff, i think you will like a lot

[@DonDuracell]

Bloddywood from India has recently released a new song which reminded me of this classic song from Sepultura.

[@HenryAusLuebeck]

you have to check out the live recording on Dutch music show "2 Meter Sessions". Filmed in 1996. This song, roots and attitude.

[@TheSlipknotMetal]

If you want a metal band that uses portuguese, may i sujest Madame Saatan. Musics like "Vela" "Moira" or "Respira". They sing about the african origins to some brasilian religions like Ubanda. They are pretty unique!

[@benmacdhui]

Sepultura hasn't been the same since the departure if the Cavalera brothers. From Beneath the Remains all the way through the Roots albums are timeless. Each with their own identity

[@Necroticnarcosis]

this is a funny song and back in 96 i was 20 when i bought this roots album double cd. And 97 i bought the album blood rooted which was sepultura covering other bands good stuff. Hello from FInland.

[@renatoiwashima3890]

Thanks for the video, really awesome analysis! As a Brazilian, I feel really happy to watch these videos. I recommend listening to another great metal band that came out of here called Angra (Sepultura, Angra, and Shaman I believe are the three big ones), but this one is more power metal and had 3 big different lineups. I'd recommend Nothing to Say and Carolina IV from the Holy Land album (1996) for some brazilian metal fusion (first lineup). Temple of Hate and Spread your Fire are really amazing songs from the Temple of Shadows album (2004) and features Kai Hansen with some amazing vocals (in Temple of Hate) too for some analysis. Power metal is a different beast when it comes to vocals though. Thanks again!

[@jackriley5176]

Any chance we can get a video on alien weaponry?? Kai tangata maybe?🤔😂

[@danielpopovici8729]

Possibly my favourite Sepultura song. The percussion is so awesome. After checking out Roots, check out the album Schizophrenia!

[@DEATHrocket777]

You definitely need to listen to the Roots album start to finish. It's a classic for sure.

[@BOMBSQUAD2K]

So the vocalist at the time was Max Cavalera. Mr. Cavalera has 3 other bands that he is in. Cavalera Conspiracy, the supergroup killer be killed, and Soulfly.

[@gikigiio]

Hey mark, I'm brazilian and I play in a samba band in my college (it's like a marching band), that thing you talked about in 16:20 ish we call it "solfejo" (I guess solfège is the english name). In our group, we use it as an teaching tool, since most people don't have the technical knowledge to read sheet music (or the knowledge to write some of the crazy shit we create). In that section he's kinda "singing" what we play on a repique. Here's a link to a repique solo played by three great musicians. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooeylICrm9p7Z6M

[@nathangarcia1992]

There was band from Hungary called Niburta who released a record that absolutely blew my mind using a combination of cultural influences. Listen to the tracks Masala and Rege. The album is called “Scream from the East”. They kind of went into obscurity, but this was such a unique album!

[@punkjay4681]

Quite many metal bands mix their cultural music with metal, it's called Folk Metal. Folk Black metal is quite a common thing (I love it!), but also many other metal genres are used for the mix. I'd say the Sepultura album Roots is a nu-metal/folk metal mix. Here's a list of some great folk metal bands from different countries and thus different cultural elements on a varying degree. Some of these have been active for decades so some albums might have stronger folk influence than the others: Skyforger (Latvia) Eluveitie (Switzerland) Nokturnal Mortum (Ukraine) - I recommend "The Voice of Steel" album Ensiferum (Finland) Wintersun (Finland) Moonsorrow (Finland) Metsatöll (Estonia) Cemican (Mexico) Windir (Norway) Týr (Faroe Islands) Heidevolk (Netherlands) Cruachan (Ireland) Primordial (Ireland) Orphaned Land (Israel) Melechesh (Israel)

[@jcjzkc]

Overdose uses the tribal instruments as well . They are also from Brazil

[@davidscrivani7920]

Alien Weaponry is a newer band that does music a lot like Roots but with traditional Maori music. Saw 'em open for Gojira in October and they were incredible!

[@27Colombia]

My first encounter with sepultura was as a teenager. "Roots, bloody roots"!!! Sometimes later I discovered Soulfly. "Blood, Fire, War, Hate" would be my recommendation.

[@rapscallion52]

Yo, y'all need to do an anatomy lesson video with animations showing internals and such

[@jmendieta]

This was so good!

[@bluey8843]

a bop that the algorithm should listen to

[@derzemel]

România have several bands like that (mixing metal with romanian folclore): Negura Bunget (atmospheric folk/black metal), DorDeDuh (atmospheric folk/black metal), Dirty Shirt (hardcore folk metal), Sur Austru (atmospheric black metal), Bucovina (folk metal)

[@johnpoker-y1s]

i think some backing vocals along with some drumming (namely the intro) were provided by some xavante guys

[@davidscott41]

The song was originally recorded in 1994 look at 2 live sessions and attitude root album was remastered in 2017 in studio four people drumming 2 guitarist doing the original vocals

[@nicolasguastini8510]

I’d love to see a reaction to some of their modern stuff with Derrick Green as the vocalist. “Isolation” is awesome.

[@josemoyan5792]

Great universal blessing 🤘🏼☄️🖤

[@KardavoxAcademy]

Thanks for watching!

[@manuelplatino1926]

It doesn't get more Brazilian AND metal than this song

[@VeganBro05]

Fuck yeah Shpongle! What a great band!

[@haakonash]

The documentary Global Metal showcases a lot of bands from outside of North America/Europe.

[@BartClone]

Hearing Metal for 20 years and not knowing Sepultura RaTaMaHaTa? Now you are no longer a virgin mate!

[@ennegativetat]

Must have to check out live version of this (+attitude) On live session, easy to find you will not be disappointed

[@HyperbeastXion]

well the new knocked loose EP has a complete stop-motion video which is really well done

[@turdsammich]

Dude, Sepultura was the shit. Their “Chaos A.D.” is brutal

[@enicoluzzi]

You must know "Gangrena Gasosa" from Brazil. They're music is a mixture of metal and macumba (african-brazilian religion). Really unique.

[@simply_daz]

I always found when listening to sepultura is to listen to the whole album

[@ChrisSnyderGuitar]

Angra also mixes their Brazilian (I think?) roots into their music. They're a power metal band, really good

[@KardavoxAcademy]

I'll check them out!

[@goner.9989]

When I heard this for the first time I thought that they sounded an awful lot like ill ninõ and realized that ill ninõ took influence from sepultura. Btw anyone remember them? They were sick.

[@icedvengence3845]

Primus did some stop motion and characters in crazy costumes.

[@AlissonBirck]

I feel at home with this reaction! Brazil representation!!!

[@11sirus11]

if you enjoyed this you should check also live versions: Sepultura Live Pinkpop 1996 Ratamahatta/Kaiowas or Sepultura - Ratamahatta (Live on 2 Meter Sessions)

[@historiaefilosofiaparaoens4800]

There is also a live performance with Carlinhos Brown at the NPA KZbin chanel

[@warphalak]

Listen to the album version of this song. It's a bit longer and there's an almost throat singing part there that didn't make the cut... wonder why...

[@weebxcore777]

Mark really did my favorite sepultura track of all time since i was like 13, im 28 now

[@KardavoxAcademy]

Hell yeah, this song was awesome!

[@fireball6094]

"Roots Bloody Roots" by Sepultura would be also great!

[@stephaniem7297]

Bloodywood is a newer band theyve been playing on liquid metal, out of India. Lots of sounds of the culture in their music. Cool band.

[@johnpoker-y1s]

theres two singers, the actual singer of the band and the drummer of another band. i think the ladder does the more "straining" scream

[@dinospumoni5611]

Great channel man! Also Sepultura are fucking God tier, check the rest of the album out. Probably one of the most creative metal albums ever made.