Last month, SEPULTURA announced that their electrifying new concept album, "Quadra" is set to be released in early 2020 – and today the Brazilian metal icons can now reveal that the album will be available on 7th February 2020, via Nuclear Blast Records.
If that news wasn't exciting enough, today the band also proudly present the debut single from the record. 'Isolation' is a punishing, experimental thrash slap in the face, and a promising taste of what's to come from 'Quadra'.
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With 'Isolation', SEPULTURA comes up with a highly sociocritical issue as singer Derrick Green says:
“Isolation is a song that was written about the U.S. prison system. The inhuman practice of solitary confinement changes the mental stability of prisoners.
They are not being rehabilitated but are transformed to become worst. Once they are released back into society we all pay the price for what has been done to them.”
'Quadra' comes paired with a stunning concept that goes deeper than the band have ever been previously. Andreas Kisser explains:
"Quadra, among other meanings, is the Portuguese word for "sport court" that by definition is a "limited area of land, with regulatory demarcations, where according to a set of rules the game takes place.
We all come from different Quadras. The countries, all nations with their borders and traditions; culture, religions, laws, education and a set of rules where life takes place. Our personalities, what we believe, how we live, how we build societies and relationships, all depends on these set of rules that we grew up with. Concepts of creation, gods, death and ethics.
Money, we are enslaved by this concept. Who's poor and who's rich, that's how we measure people and material goods. Regardless of your Quadra you need money to survive, the prime rule to play this game called life."
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Ceri Davies
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