Sepultura: Roots BOX

Founded in 1984 by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, Sepultura has become an influential force in heavy metal music thanks to their dynamic studio recordings and intense live performances. The band has sold nearly 20 million albums worldwide to date, including more than three million in the United States. Sepultura broadened its musical horizons with Chaos A.D. and Roots, a pair of acclaimed albums that took the Brazilian band's hard-rocking sound in bold and exciting new directions.

Three years after Chaos A.D., the band returned with Roots, which has sold more than two million copies worldwide. It was simpler, and in some ways heavier, than their previous albums, yet ripe with Brazilian influences from the cover image to the collaborations with Carlinhos Brown and the Xavanté Indian tribe. The album also features guest appearances by Mike Patton and Jonathan Davis. But at their absolute peak in popularity, Max Cavalera departed the group, marking the end of an era and the beginning of a new one.

This 25th anniversary vinyl 5LP box set reissue from Run Out Groove finds the Roots album remastered for ultimate fidelity and augmented with bonus demos, alternates rough mixes and more! It includes a previously unreleased live at Ozzfest (Phoenix AZ 1996) performance found in the Warner vaults and exclusive to this box. The set comes housed in a custom spot-varnished hard box with three gatefold tip-on jackets and new custom artwork and is rounded out with an exclusive embroidered patch and exclusive fold out poster.