Three-fourths of the lineup that recorded Sepultura's 1986 debut album Morbid Visions, Igor Cavalera (drums), Max Cavalera (guitar, vocals) and Jairo Guedz (guitar), recently reunited virtually for a re-recording of their classic tune "Antichrist", which originally appeared on the 1985 EP Bestial Devastation. A video of this performance is on YouTube as part of Igor's recently launched a new video series, "Beneath The Drums", where he dissects some of the best-known songs from his recording history.

About "Antichrist", Igor commented: "'Antichrist' is probably one of the first tracks that I ever wrote something on the drums. And as far as I remember, we wrote [it], me and Max, in our bedroom. And we were very influenced by a lot of really cool bands back in '84, '85, and those bands were Venom [and] Hellhammer, and then some German bands later, like Kreator and Destruction. So, "Antichrist", it was one of those tunes where we had an idea of what we wanted to do - very influenced by black and death metal. Back in 1984, my drum set was not really a drum set; it was just some pieces of percussion that I collected at the time that my parents gave me. So I had a snare and a floor tom. So, our rehearsals back then, I didn't have kick drums at the time, so I was only playing with my hands, doing all the beats between the two instruments, and then a crash, which was attached to a broom stick with a nail on it. So it was very primitive. And I remember by the time we went into the studio to record Bestial Devastation, I had to adapt some of those beats to a proper drum set, with kick drums, with toms and things like that, even a hi-hat. But then "Antichrist" is one of those tracks where I still remained some of the very primal way of playing it, with just a floor tom and a snare, so it's almost like a pre-blast-beat version that I was doing."

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