- Military dictatorship closed off Brazil
- Metal bands began recording in '85 just as the dictatorahip ended
- Rock in Rio had 1.3m atendees
- the presence of metal bands tame to the rest of the Western world overwhelmed Brazilians
- "soundtrack of a new country", symbol of democracy
- Sepultura, the first major Brazilian metal band, shocked people merely for coming from Brazil
- Brazil "a place that seemed so different"
- direct influence from outside metal bands; the story of seeing a band wear belts made out of bullets on an album cover and deciding to imitate it by gluing together batteries