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's second single, as well as the second of three to be released from the album '' Arise''. A music video for the song was produced and can be found on the

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release ''Third World Chaos'', which itself was released on

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as part of ''Chaos DVD''. The video features footage of the band performing in the wilderness accompanied by imagery from the album. At this stage in their career, the band had recorded little material to be used as B-sides, which is why the Arise singles are so similar. This single and the next, "

Under Siege (Regnum Irae) ''Arise'' is the fourth studio album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, released in 1991 by Roadrunner Records. Released after their breakthrough album, ''Beneath the Remains'' (1989), ''Arise'' represents the band's experiments with that ...

" have exactly the same artwork (a detail of the ''Arise'' album cover artwork by

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) and B-sides. The song appears on the Liberty City Hardcore station in both '' Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned'' and '' Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony''.http://soundtrackstream.com/grand-theft-auto-episodes-from-liberty-city/ Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City - Soundtrack Stream The station notably features

Max Cavalera Massimiliano Antonio "Max" Cavalera (; born 4 August 1969) is a Brazilian musician. He co-founded the Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Sepultura in 1984 with his brother Igor Cavalera, and was the band's lead singer and rhythm guitarist unti ...

as the radio DJ.

Track listing

#"Dead Embryonic Cells" (album version) #"Orgasmatron" (

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cover) #"Troops of Doom" (This is the re-recorded version of the song which originally appeared on the album '' Morbid Visions''.)

Personnel

– lead vocals, rhythm guitar *

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 1997, and Igor himself would ...

– drums * Andreas Kisser – lead guitar, bass (uncredited) * Paulo Jr. – bass (credited, but did not perform) *Produced by Scott Burns and

*Recorded and engineered by Scott Burns *Mixed by Andy Wallace *Assistant engineers: ''Fletcher McClean'' and ''Steve Sisco''

References

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