Heavy Metal Music in Postdictatorial Brazil Sepultura and the Coding of Nationality in Sound

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Preamble: ‘you censor what we breathe/prejudice with no belief’ (Sepultura, 1993)

Heavy metal is a postdictatorial genre in Brazil, one whose musical and cultural significance is best grasped by mapping the various meanings acquired by metal music amongst urban youth during the decline of the military regime in the mid-1980s.

s in most countries, speed, thrash and death metal evolved in Brazil primarily as working-class urban youth genres. Unlike their Anglo-American and continental sisters ....

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https://heavymetalonthisday.com/sepultura-Postdictatorial-Brazil/

 

[Dazed and Brutal]

Huh. I thought the article would be more fleshed-out, but I like the angle in general. There isn't much discussion of the cultural backdrop of a lot of these scenes on the board.