Attitude Anno Domini: musical resistance in the album Chaos A.D. of the band Sepultura

• Main Author: Marcos Daniel de Melo Ferreira
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2017-06-01
• Series: Outra Travessia
• Subjects: heavy metal; técnica; resistência; arte; poder
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/Outra/article/view/56047

This article proposes a reflection about the geopolitical conflicts and biotechnological experiments present in the album Chaos A.D. of the brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura. The songs of Chaos A.D. approach from geopolitical conflicts to biotechnological experiments, attack the power that is always shown as “will to power” and technics as “will to technics”. Chaos A.D. comes to us with a poetic denouncer of the forces that operate favoring control of the bodies and the narratives of the subject. As such, we depart from Michel Foucault’s thinking of the resistance and its articulations about the idea of control, as well the development of the concept of technics by Umberto Galimberti and Glaucia Dunley.