by Greg Prato
As far as heaviness and intensity go, Sepultura were one of the top live metal bands of the late '80s/early '90s, during their Max Cavalera era. But with singer Derrick Green a member of Sepultura for nearly ten years by 2005, the time was right to what the latter era of Sepultura could do on-stage, as evidenced by Live in São Paulo. The double-disc set includes selections from throughout the Brazilian metal band's career, while Sepultura gives a metal makeover to a few interesting covers from non-metal bands: Public Enemy's &Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos& and U2's &Bullet the Blue Sky.& Elsewhere, you can't go wrong with power-packed versions of the Sepultura classics &Refuse/Resist,& &Territory,& &Biotech Is Godzilla,& &Dead Embryonic Cells,& a set-closing rendition of &Roots Bloody Roots,& and such latter-day tracks as &Choke& and &Apes of God.& As evidenced by Live in São Paulo, Sepultura can still unleash the fury on-stage.