Before the 1993 masterpiece "Chaos A.D." Sepultura shook the death metal community with two albums, first in 1989 with "Beneath the Remains" and two years later with this solid effort. With "Arise", Sepultura took their death metal songwriting into a conclusion; the only way to really progress was to create an alternative metal masterpiece in the form of "Chaos A.D." ... and then they went to invent nu-metal with Korn... it is forgiven...