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Sepultura Discography

The following is the discography of Sepultura, a Brazilian heavy metal band. Sepultura was formed in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, in 1984 by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera. After several lineup changes, Paulo Jr. and Jairo Guedz became permanent members for the band's first studio album Morbid Visions, released in 1986 through Cogumelo Records. Guitarist Jairo Guedz left Sepultura following the band's first tour and was replaced by Andreas Kisser. With the new lineup, Sepultura recorded Schizophrenia in 1987. Beneath the Remains, the first album from the band's contract with Roadrunner Records, was released in 1989, followed by Arise in 1991 and Chaos A.D. in 1993. Sepultura's best-selling album Roots, was released in 1996 and debuted at number 27 on the Billboard 200.

In 1996, vocalist Max Cavalera left the band and formed Soulfly. The other members announced that they would continue under the Sepultura name and were searching for a replacement. Derrick Green was chosen to replace Cavalera, and with the new vocalist the band released Against in 1998. Nation was released in 2001, the band's last studio album with Roadrunner Records. Sepultura signed to German label SPV and released Roorback. Dante XXI was released in 2006 as a concept album inspired by the literary classic Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Igor Cavalera left the band in 2006 and was replaced by Jean Dolabella. In 2009 Sepultura released A-Lex, a concept album about A Clockwork Orange, followed by 2011's Kairos. Drummer Eloy Casagrande replaced Dollabella and in 2013 the band released The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart, which was loosely based on sci-fi film Metropolis. In 2017, Sepultura released their fourteenth studio album Machine Messiah, and followed this in 2020 with their fifteenth studio album Quadra.

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
AUS
AUT
FRA
GER
NLD
SWE
SWI
UK
UK Rock
US
US
Ind.

1986 Morbid Visions
  • Released: 10 November 1986
  • Label: Cogumelo
1987 Schizophrenia
  • Released: 30 October 1987
  • Label: Cogumelo
1989 Beneath the Remains 96
1991 Arise
  • Released: 2 April 1991
  • Label: Roadrunner
25 68 46 24 40 119
1993 Chaos A.D.
  • Released: 19 October 1993
  • Label: Roadrunner/Epic
27 19 6 11 21 11 15 11 32
1996 Roots
  • Released: 12 March 1996
  • Label: Roadrunner
3 2 4 7 6 5 16 4 27
  • ARIA: Gold
  • BEA: Gold
  • BPI: Gold
  • IFPI AUT: Gold
  • MC: Gold
  • NVPI: Gold
  • RIAA: Gold
  • SNEP: Gold
1998 Against
  • Released: 6 October 1998
  • Label: Roadrunner
25 23 33 23 76 33 40 82
  • US: 129,856
2001 Nation
  • Released: 20 March 2001
  • Label: Roadrunner
40 41 91 28 84 88 134 4
  • US: 62,065
2003 Roorback
  • Released: 27 May 2003
  • Label: SPV/Universal Music
77 46 69 129 17
  • US: 4,000
2006 Dante XXI
  • Released: 14 March 2006
  • Label: SPV
166 64 8 45
  • US: 2,300
2009 A-Lex
  • Released: 27 January 2009
  • Label: SPV
53 150 82 68 22 48
  • US: 1,600
2011 Kairos 75 87 49 45 26 48
  • US: 2,500
2013 The Mediator Between Head
and Hands Must Be the Heart
  • Released: 29 October 2013
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
153 76 96 22 50
  • US: 1,800
2017 Machine Messiah
  • Released: 13 January 2017
  • Label: Nuclear Blast/Sony Music
82 33 114 27 27 165 9 11
  • US: 1,900
2020 Quadra
  • Released: 7 February 2020
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
112 17 63 5 13 5
  • US: 3,250
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Live albums

Year Album details Peak
positions
AUS
FRA
SWI
2002 Under a Pale Grey Sky
  • Released: 22 September 2002
  • Label: Roadrunner
98 52 99
2005 Live in São Paulo
  • Released: 8 November 2005
  • Label: SPV
2014 Metal Veins – Alive in Rock in Rio
2021 SepulQuarta
  • Released: 13 August 2021
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
22
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Compilation albums

Year Album details Peak
positions
AUS
US
1996 The Roots of Sepultura
  • Released: 29 November 1996
  • Label: Roadrunner
42
1997 Blood-Rooted
  • Released: 3 June 1997
  • Label: Roadrunner
162
1997 B-Sides
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Roadrunner
2006 The Best of Sepultura
  • Released: 12 September 2006
  • Label: Roadrunner
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Extended plays

Year Album details
1985 Bestial Devastation
  • Released: 1 December 1985
  • Label: Cogumelo
1992 Third World Posse
  • Released: 1992, exclusively
    in Australia and peaked at number #116
  • Label: Roadrunner Records
1996 Natural Born Blasters
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Roadrunner Records
2002 Revolusongs
  • Released: 22 November 2002
  • Label: SPV/Universal Music

LP

Year Album details
2015 Sepultura Under My Skin
  • Released: 5 June 2015
  • Label: Nuclear Blast

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
AUS
FIN
FRA
GER
IRL
NLD
NOR
NZL
SWE
UK
1991 "Arise" Arise
"Under Siege (Regnum Irae)" 91
"Dead Embryonic Cells"
1993 "Refuse/Resist" 29 51 Chaos A.D.
1994 "Territory" 8 50 66
"Slave New World" 32 46
1996 "Roots Bloody Roots" 44 2 26 42 27 35 20 14 19 Roots
"Ratamahatta" 23
"Attitude" 16 46
1998 "Choke" 91 Against
1999 "Against"
"Tribus" 82
2006 "Convicted in Life" Dante XXI
2011 "Kairos" Kairos
2013 "The Age of the Atheist" The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart
2015 "Sepultura Under My Skin" Sepultura Under My Skin
2016 "I Am the Enemy" Machine Messiah
"Phantom Self"
2019 "Isolation" Quadra
"Last Time"
2020 "Means to an End"
"Guardians of Earth"
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country.

Video albums

Year Video details US chart
peak
1992 Under Siege (Live in Barcelona)
  • Released: 14 January 1992
  • Label: Roadrunner
13
1995 Third World Chaos
  • Released: 27 June 1995
  • Label: Roadrunner
6
1997 We Are What We Are
  • Released: 28 January 1997
  • Label: Roadrunner
19
2002 Chaos DVD
  • Released: 7 October 2002
  • Label: Roadrunner
38
2005 Live in São Paulo
  • Released: 8 November 2005
  • Label: SPV
2014 Metal Veins – Alive in Rock in Rio
1.^ Billboard Top Music Video Charts.

Music videos

Year Title Album Director
1989 "Inner Self" Beneath the Remains Aurelio Diaz
1991 "Dead Embryonic Cells" Arise Bill Henderson
1992 "Arise"
1993 "Refuse/Resist" Chaos A.D. Peter Christopherson
"Territory" Paul Rachman
1994 "Slave New World" Thomas Mignone
1996 "Roots Bloody Roots" Roots
"Ratamahatta" Fred Stuhr
"Attitude" Block
1998 "Choke" Against Raul Machado
2003 "Bullet the Blue Sky" Revolusongs Ricardo Della Rosa
2004 "Mind War" Roorback
2005 "Refuse/Resist" (live) Live in São Paulo Lecuck Ishida
2006 "Convicted in Life" Dante XXI Luis Carone
2008 "Ostia" Geraldo Moraes
2009 "We've Lost You" A-Lex André Moraes
"What I Do!" Sepultura
2013 "The Vatican" The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart Rafael Kent
2014 "Da Lama ao Caos"
2016 "Phantom Self" Machine Messiah Mauricio Eça
2019 "Isolation" Quadra
2020 "Means to an End" Otavio Juliano and Luciana Ferraz
"Guardians of Earth" Raul Machado