REFUSE/RESIST BY SEPULTURA
IT WAS A glimpse of a leather jacket on a New York subway that sparked the song that would turbocharge Sepultura’s ascent from global ambassadors for Brazilian metal to one of the most important and influential bands of the 1990s.
“I was riding the subway in New York”, says former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera. “There was a kind of Black Panther, punk kind of guy, and he had a black leather jacket with a protest verse painted on it. At the very end of the verse, it said: ‘Protest and survive/Refuse and resist.’ I got out of the subway and went back to our hotel and wrote it down so I didn’t forget it.”
That moment of inspiration became the driving engine of , the opening track and second single from 1993’s landmark album. This three-minute blast of noise and fury slowed down the bludgeoning barrage
