"Slave New World" | ||||
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Single by Sepultura | ||||
from the album Chaos A.D. | ||||
B-side | “Desperate Cry” (live), "Orgasmatron" (live), "Drug Me", "Crucificados Pela Sistema" | |||
Released | 1994 | |||
Format | CD single, cassette, 12" | |||
Recorded | 1992 Rockfield Studios and Chepstow Castle, South Wales, UK |
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Genre | Groove metal, thrash metal | |||
Length | 2:54 | |||
Label | Roadrunner | |||
Songwriter(s) |
Max Cavalera Igor Cavalera Andreas Kisser Paulo Jr. Evan Seinfeld |
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Producer(s) | Andy Wallace | |||
Sepultura singles chronology | ||||
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"Slave New World" is Sepultura's fifth 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. 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.
The artwork for the single shows a grey clenched fist, the wrist branded with a barcode. The reverse also depicts a barcode, rippled to look like a flag. The single artwork stays with the imagery of the music video.
The single was released in several forms. There exist 2 CD versions: one three-track maxi-single and a two-track single, the track details of which are listed below. The maxi-single was released in a foldout card digipak case which had two disc trays: one for the CD which came with it, and another to insert the second single into. The second single came in a card slip with the same artwork as the normal CD, but was more reminiscent of a promotional CD. The vinyl version of the single was a single sided etched 10" limited edition orange 45 RPM record, which came in a transparent sleeve so it could be seen.
It is interesting that the band's official discography gives the incorrect track listing for this single.