Quadra (album)
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Released | February 7, 2020 | |||
Recorded | August–October 2019 | |||
Studio | Fascination Street Studios, Örebro, Sweden | |||
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Length | 51:14 | |||
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Producer | Jens Bogren | |||
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Quadra is the fifteenth studio album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, released on February 7, 2020.[1][2] It is a concept album based on numerology, the number four and its significance as depicted on Quadrivium. The band went to Sweden to work with producer Jens Bogren for the recording of Quadra.
The album is the band's most successful record since 1998's
With Sepultura set to embark on a farewell tour in 2024–2025, and deciding against recording another album, Quadra will likely be the band's final studio album.[3] This is also the band's final studio album with drummer Eloy Casagrande before his departure from the band in 2024.
Concept
Guitarist Andreas Kisser explained that the concept of the album is based on Quadrivium, which are the four subjects, or arts (namely arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy), taught after teaching the trivium. The word is Latin, meaning four ways. The concept was discussed with the well known music photographer Marcos Hermes who was responsible for the picture of the album cover.
Based on this, the band divided the 12-track album into four sections of three songs each. The first being
Quadra is also the Portuguese term for sports court. Kisser stated that "everyone grows up in a different Quadra, shaped by rules and definitions. We are all determined by these concepts, our relationships, our careers. Our whole lives."[1]
When
Reception
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 77/100[6] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [7] |
The Arts Desk | [8] |
Blabbermouth.net | 9/10[9] |
Clash | 7/10[10] |
Consequence of Sound | B[11] |
Exclaim! | 8/10[12] |
Kerrang! | 3/5[13] |
Metal Storm | 8.0/10[14] |
Ultimate Guitar | 8.7/10[15] |
Quadra received positive reviews. Thom Jurek of
Metalriot.com chose Quadra as their number one album of 2020. Morgan Y. Evans wrote that the album ,"...is nothing short of a monument to a lifetime in metal, the determined triumph of a legacy name never saying die and following their trusted vision over popular opinion. Quadra works on every level. In a year filled with so much death even the band's name vibrates on some heavy karmic level, but "Isolation" especially resonates deeply in a time of so much social upheaval for justice reform."[16]
The website Collector's Room included Quadra on the top 50 Brazilian metal albums of all time.[17] Metal Hammer named it as the 30th best metal album of 2020.[18]
At the 2020 Metal Storm Awards, the album won a Metal Storm Award for Best Thrash Metal Album.[19]
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Derrick Green
No. | Title | Music | Length |
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1. | "Isolation" |
| 4:56 |
2. | "Means to an End" |
| 4:39 |
3. | "Last Time" |
| 4:27 |
4. | "Capital Enslavement" |
| 3:40 |
5. | "Ali" |
| 4:12 |
6. | "Raging Void" |
| 3:57 |
7. | "Guardians of Earth" |
| 5:11 |
8. | "The Pentagram" (instrumental) |
| 5:20 |
9. | "Autem" |
| 4:06 |
10. | "Quadra" (instrumental) | Kisser | 0:46 |
11. | "Agony of Defeat" |
| 5:51 |
12. | "Fear, Pain, Chaos, Suffering" (featuring Emmily Barreto) |
| 4:09 |
Total length: | 51:14 |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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1. | "Choke" (from Against, 1998) | Kisser |
| 3:46 |
2. | "Convicted in Life" (from Dante XXI, 2006) |
|
| 3:31 |
3. | "Sepulnation" (from Nation, 2001) |
|
| 4:41 |
4. | "Apes of God" (from Roorback, 2003) |
|
| 3:22 |
5. | "Sepultura Under My Skin" (from Sepultura Under My Skin, 2015) |
| Kisser | 3:45 |
6. | "Manipulation of Tragedy" (from The Mediator..., 2013) |
|
| 4:19 |
7. | "The Vatican" (from The Mediator..., 2013) |
|
| 6:34 |
8. | "Cut-Throat" (from Roots, 1996) | Max Cavalera | Sepultura | 2:55 |
Total length: | 32:28 |
- Recorded live at the Audio Club in São Paulo, Brazil on June 20, 2015
Personnel
Sepultura
- Derrick Green − vocals
- Andreas Kisser − guitars
- Paulo Jr. − bass
- Eloy Casagrande − drums, percussion
Guests
- Emmily Barreto − guest vocals on track 12
- Paulo Cyrino − heavy dubstep elements on track 5
- Kadu Fernandes − percussion on track 4
- Francesco Ferrini − orchestral and key arrangements on tracks 3 and 12
- Ingrid Misgeld − conductor of the Chorus Mysticus choir
- Gunnar Misgeld − choir arrangements on track 1, 3, 7 and 11
- Robertinho Rodrigues − acoustic bass
- Renato Zanuto − keyboards, choir arrangements, orchestral and string arrangements on tracks 1, 4, 7 and 11
- Bruna Zneti − violins
Charts
Chart (2020) | Peak position |
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19 | |
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[21] | 17 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[22] | 59 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[23] | 54 |
French Albums ( SNEP)[24]
|
63 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[25] | 5 |
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[26] | 12 |
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[27] | 225 |
Polish Albums (ZPAV)[28] | 23 |
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[29] | 11 |
Scottish Albums (OCC)[30] | 31 |
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[31] | 40 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[32] | 13 |
5 |
References
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- ^ "Sepultura Announces 'Farewell Tour' To Mark Band's 40th Anniversary". Blabbermouth.net. December 8, 2023. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
- YouTube.com. January 9, 2020. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
- BraveWords. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- ^ "Reviews for Quadra by Sepultura". Metacritic. Retrieved February 12, 2020.
- ^ a b Jurek, Thom. "Quadra - Sepultura". AllMusic. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
- ^ Draganova, Asya. "Album: Sepultura - Quadra". The Arts Desk. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
- ^ a b Lawson, Dom (February 7, 2020). "CD Reviews - Quadra Sepultura". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
- ^ Holi, Eero (February 10, 2020). "Sepultura - Quadra". Clash. Retrieved December 10, 2023.
- Consequence of Sound. Retrieved December 10, 2023.
- ^ Morin, Max. "Sepultura Quadra". Exclaim!. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
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