Songfacts®:

• Sepultura has given us some decidedly offbeat song titles over the years ("Dead Embryonic Cells," "Ratamahatta," "Dictators--t"), but one of the biggest song title curveballs is "Biotech Is Godzilla" off their fifth studio album, 1993's Chaos A.D.
  
  The band's usual lyricist, singer/guitarist Max Cavalera, did not have a hand in penning the lyrics, and didn't come up with the title; punk rock icon Jello Biafra did. Cavalera recounted in the 2015 book Survival of the Fittest: Heavy Metal in the 1990s:
  
  "We asked our friend, Jello Biafra – who was a big hardcore hero of mine from the Dead Kennedys – to write the lyrics to 'Biotech Is Godzilla.' We should have asked him to sing – that would have been even better. But at the time, we just wanted his lyrics. For me, Jello is one of the best lyricists in the world – stuff like 'Holiday In Cambodia.' All the Dead Kennedys stuff was so amazing. I was like, 'If you can write the lyrics for us that sounds a little sarcastic/black humor, like you did with the Dead Kennedys, that would be great.' And he came up with the title 'Biotech Is Godzilla,' which is pure genius and we loved it from the beginning. The album was full of cool stuff like that."
• The song draws a parallel between biotech firms that manipulate genes to create new foods and medicines, to Godzilla, a creature that was formed from the fallout of nuclear weapons. The promise of cures and prosperity espoused by biotech firms often overshadows the dangers, which Sepultura points out in this song.
  
  The lyrics branch out to explore how corruption and indifference and lead to disaster at other levels as well. The band is from Brazil, where the city of Cubatao (mentioned in the lyric as "World's most polluted town" where "air melts your face) is known as the "Valley Of Death" because of the industrial pollution caused by factories that were there for years spewing toxic waste.