Roots Bloody Roots

"Roots Bloody Roots"
Single by Sepultura
from the album Roots
B-side	"Procreation (Of the Wicked)" "Territory" (live) "Beneath the Remains/Escape to the Void" (live) "Symptom of the Universe" "Propaganda" (live)
Released	February 18, 1996
Recorded	October–December 1995
Studio	Indigo Ranch in Malibu, California
Length	3:32
Label	Roadrunner
Songwriter(s)	Max Cavalera Igor Cavalera Andreas Kisser Paulo Jr.
Producer(s)	Ross Robinson
Sepultura singles chronology
"Territory" (1993) "Roots Bloody Roots" (1996) "Attitude" (1996)
Music video
"Roots Bloody Roots" on YouTube

"Roots Bloody Roots" is a song by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, released in February 1996 as the lead single from their sixth studio album Roots. It is the band's best known song and remains a concert staple, usually being performed on encores. A music video was filmed for the song, which features the band performing in a catacomb as well as on the streets with a tribe of percussionists.^[1] This video can be found on the VHS We Are What We Are,^[2] which was later released on DVD as part of Chaos DVD.^[3]

The song also appears in live form on the band's live releases Under a Pale Grey Sky and Live in São Paulo. Another live version appears on the limited edition digipak version of the band's 2000 album Nation. Former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera has also played the song live numerous times with his other bands Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy. Recordings of their version can be found on the limited edition versions of the albums Soulfly and Prophecy and as iTunes bonus track on Conquer, as well as on the DVD The Song Remains Insane, plus on the bonus DVDs of Omen and Archangel.