Derrick Green
Derrick Green with fans during Metalmania 2007 in Katowice, Poland.
Background information
Birth name	Derrick Green
Born	January 20, 1971 (1971-01-20) (age 38) Cleveland, Ohio
Genres	Thrash metal, groove metal, death metal, hardcore punk, alternative metal
Occupations	Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, Guitar, Percussion
Labels	Roadrunner, SPV GmbH
Associated acts	Sepultura, Integrity, Outface, Musica Diablo

Derrick Green (born January 20, 1971) is the vocalist for the metal band Sepultura, whom he joined on the departure of their previous vocalist Max Cavalera in 1997.

[edit] Life and work

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Derrick was a singer for thrash metal/hardcore band Outface (with guitarist Charlie Gerriga of CIV, and Frank Cavanagh of Prong and Filter among others), Krop Acid and several other hardcore bands of which Alpha Jerk was his latest band.

He was a guest vocalist on a few CDs including Integrity 2000 from the hardcore band Integrity, Biohazard's Uncivilization and the soundtrack of the Brazilian movie Lisbela e o Prisioneiro.

Derrick is a vegetarian and has been for the past 23 years. He made this publicly clear in a PETA video interview regarding Sepultura's 2006 video of their song "Convicted in Life". Derrick himself stated in the interview that the subject of this video is that some kind of "karma" is inflicted on those that damage the environment and its wildlife.

The extremely graphic video depicts how he describes a "sort of hell" where pig slaughterers and chicken harvesters are forced to suffer for their actions in their past life, with also very large and dramatically graphic references to the Dark Wood of Error and the first parts of Dante's Inferno concluding onto Dante XXI.

In 2008 he joined Musica Diablo, a thrash metal band with members of Nitrominds, Ação Direta and Dead Fish. ^[1]

[edit] Discography

• Outface - Friendly Green (1996)
• Sepultura - Against (1998)
• Biohazard - Uncivilization (2000)
• Sepultura - Nation (2001)
• Sepultura - Revolusongs (2002)
• Sepultura - Roorback (2003)
• Sepultura - Live in São Paulo (2005)
• Sepultura - Dante XXI (2006)
• Sepultura - A-Lex (2009)
• Musica Diablo - Untitled (2009)

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.musicadiablo.com

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