''Roorback'' is the ninth studio album by

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ian heavy metal band Sepultura, released in 2003, through SPV Records.

Album information

The songs "Mind War" and " Bullet the Blue Sky" 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 Derrick Green on vocals. However, ''Roorback'' received positive reviews and placed on ''

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''s Independent Music Chart at #17, with first-week sales of 4,000. SoundScan reported on March 20, 2007 that ''Roorback'' had sold over 75,000 units in the United States.

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

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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 ''

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''".

Track listing

The digipak version includes a second disc which contains '' Revolusongs'', but excludes the

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cover from the original EP. On the digipack CD version, Outro ends at 1:22. There is silence from 1:23 to 8:22. Starting at 8:23 is a

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Credits

* Derrick Green - vocals * Andreas Kisser - guitars * Paulo Jr. - bass *

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- drums, percussion *João Barone - guest appearance *Sepultura - production * Steve Evetts - production, engineering, mixing * Derek Hess - illustrations *George Marino - mastering *Milky - assistant engineering *Luciano Tarta - assistant engineering *Leo Shogun - assistant engineering *Fabiano Zowa - executive engineering * Jacob Bannon - graphic design

Charts

References

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