''Roorback'' is the ninth studio album by

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ian heavy metal band

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, released in 2003, through

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Album information

The songs "Mind War" and "

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" were released as singles and music videos. The digipak version (released everywhere except the United States) contains the '' Revolusongs'' EP and the video for "Bullet the Blue Sky". The album title refers to the " Roorback forgery".

Reception

Sales were down from their previous albums featuring

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on vocals. However, ''Roorback'' received positive reviews and managed to place on '' Billboard''s Independent Music Chart at #17, with first week sales of 4,000.

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reported on March 20, 2007 that ''Roorback'' has sold over 75,000 units worldwide.

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's Alex Henderson gave the album 4 stars out of 5 and said that "

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and political corruption are recurring themes on ''Roorback''", and "the songs that Sepultura wrote paint a consistently bleak and troubling picture of the world". Adrien Begrand from

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called ''Roorback'' "their strongest effort in years" and "their most consistent and energized album since ''Roots''".

Track listing

(Digipak version includes a second disc which contains Revolusongs, but excludes the Metallica cover from the original EP) On the digipack CD version, Outro ends at 1:22. There is silence from 1:23 - 8:22. Starting at 8:23 is a hidden track.

Chart performance

Album - Billboard (United States)

Credits

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

, rhythm guitar *

Andreas Kisser Andreas Rudolf Kisser (; born 24 August 1968) is a Brazilian musician, best known for being the lead guitarist for the metal band Sepultura. He has been featured on every Sepultura release since their second album, ''Schizophrenia''. Additionally, ...

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featu ...

* Paulo Jr. - bass *

Igor Cavalera Igor Graziano Cavalera (born 4 September 1970) is a Brazilian musician, best known as the former drummer for the heavy metal band Sepultura, which he co-founded with his brother Max in 1984. Max left the band in 1996, and Cavalera himself wo ...

- drums,

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*João Barone - guest appearance *Sepultura - production * Steve Evetts - production, engineering, mixing *

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- illustrations *George Marino - mastering *Milky - assistant engineering *Luciano Tarta - assistant engineering *Leo Shogun - assistant engineering *Fabiano Zowa - executive engineering *

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- graphic design

References

{{Authority control Sepultura albums 2003 albums Albums produced by Steve Evetts SPV/Steamhammer albums Nu metal albums by Brazilian artists