Brazilian thrash icons Sepultura have revealed the title for their 13th studio album, ‘The Mediator Between the Head and Hands Must Be the Heart’, which is set to be released in October via Nuclear Blast.

While influenced by the classic 1927 sci-fi film ‘Metropolis’, ‘The Mediator Between the Head and Hands Must Be the Heart’ will not be a concept album, such as ‘A-Lex’, which was based on A Clockwork Orange, and ‘Dante XXI’ , based on The Divine Comedy by Dante.

Lead guitarist Andreas Kisser said on the band’s official site “I was inspired by a phrase which is the main message of the story: “The mediator between the head and hands must be the heart” to express what we are saying on the lyrics.

In the movie, a crazy millionaire wants to transform a robot into a real person. That’s kind of the opposite of what we live today. More than ever we are robotized, through the worldwide web, Google glasses, chips under our skins and the globalized slavery our society suffers nowadays. The phrase points to the heart as being the human factor who keeps a man, a man, not a robot. The heart beats with freedom of choice, we have to think by ourselves to create a real world, not a matrix.

Being a novel written in the early 1920’s, it’s almost prophetical. It helped us to put the ideas together for the lyrics to express what we see today. I live in São Paulo, Brasil, one of the big metropolis in the world with more than 20.000.000 people living and working in it. I know how it is to live in daily chaos, our music reflects a lot of that feeling.”

The band will be announcing further details about the album soon.