Beneath The Remains  by Sepultura

In February 1988, Max Cavalera finds himself in New York and for a week negotiates with the people of Roadrunner Records about Sepultura's contract with the record label. They ultimately reach an agreement for seven albums (!) Thus, by April 1989, the Brazilian band's third album, titled Beneath The Remains, was released.

The album's production was handled by producer Scott Burns, who agreed to work with Sepultura for a fee of only $2,000 to satisfy his natural curiosity about Brazil and obviously about the rising and promising group Sepultura. Beneath The Remains was recorded from December 15 to December 28, 1988, at Nas Nuvens Studio in Rio de Janeiro. The work "Nightmare in Red" by Michael Whelan was chosen as the album's cover.

Beneath The Remains remains an excellent example of a thrash metal album that openly flirts with death metal, which at that time had just been born as a subgenre of heavy metal. This particular album was the one that brought Sepultura to tour outside Brazil for the first time, accompanying the German band Sodom.