"Slave New World" | ||||
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Single by Sepultura | ||||
from the album Chaos A.D. | ||||
B-side |
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Released | 1994 | |||
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Genre | Groove metal | |||
Length | 2:54 | |||
Label | Roadrunner | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | Andy Wallace | |||
Sepultura singles chronology | ||||
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"Slave New World" is Sepultura's sixth official single, and the final of three to be taken from the album Chaos A.D., released in 1994. The lyrics were co-written by Evan Seinfeld from Sepultura's Roadrunner label-mates Biohazard. Like most of the band's singles, the song is one of the band's best-known songs and remains a concert staple to this day. A music video was filmed for the single which features the band playing on what appears to be a volcano, intercut with footage of severe human conditioning, including branding people with barcodes.[1] This video can be found on the VHS Third World Chaos, which was later released on DVD as part of Chaos DVD. The title of the song is a wordplay of Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel Brave New World.
The song also appears in live form on the band's releases Under a Pale Grey Sky and Live in São Paulo. It also appeared as a live B-side to the "Ratamahatta" single. This same recording was later included on the Blood-Rooted compilation.