Sepultura (Portuguese: "tomb" or "grave"[1]) is a Brazilian heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, formed in 1984.[2] The band was a major force in the death metal and thrash metal realms during the late 1980s and early 1990s,[3] and their later experiments melding hardcore punk and industrial music with extreme metal[4][5] provided a blueprint for the groove metal genre.[6]