Sepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte. The band was formed in 1984 by brothers Igor and Max Cavalera.
Sepultura was a major force in the groove metal, thrash & death metal genres during the late 1980s and early 1990s with their later experiments drawing influence from alternative metal, hardcore punk and industrial metal.
The band has been credited as one of the second wave of thrash metal acts from the late 1980s to early-to-mid-1990s, along with bands like Machine Head, Pantera, Testament, Dark Angel, Vio-lence and Forbidden.