Editing Sevas Tra (section)

==Music and lyrics==
The album is a [[nu metal]]<ref name="CMJTwo" /> album that features strong elements of [[death metal]],<ref name="CMJ">{{cite journal |title=LOUD ROCK |journal=[[CMJ New Music Report]] |volume=71 |number=766 |issn=0890-0795 |date=June 10, 2002 |page=19}}</ref><ref name="MTV">{{cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1457071/otep-challenges-corey-taylor-jonathan-davis-to-poetry-slam/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326175418/http://www.mtv.com/news/1457071/otep-challenges-corey-taylor-jonathan-davis-to-poetry-slam/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 26, 2015 |title=Otep Challenges Corey Taylor, Jonathan Davis To Poetry Slam |publisher=[[MTV]] |last=Kaufman |first=Gil |date=August 16, 2002}}</ref> as well as elements of {{nowrap|[[groove metal]]}}, [[funk metal]], [[alternative metal]], [[rap metal]], [[grindcore]] and [[hip hop music|hip-hop]].<ref name="AM" /><ref name="MTV" /> The album's song "Jonestown Tea" features elements of [[spoken word]].<ref name="MTV" /> The vocals consist of growling,<ref name="AM" /><ref name="CMJ" /> screaming<ref name="AM" /><ref name="CMJ" /> and rapping.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lawrence.com/news/2002/aug/16/otep_adjusts/ |title=Otep adjusts to being sole female artist on Ozzfest |last=Niccum |first=Jon |date=August 16, 2002 |publisher=Lawrence.com}}</ref> The growling on the album is one example of the album's elements of grindcore and death metal.<ref name="CMJ" /><ref name="MTV" /> Also, the album has guitar [[riff]]s heard in the death metal genre. The album has been compared to [[Cannibal Corpse]], [[Metallica]], [[Skinlab]] and [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]].<ref name="CMJ" /><ref name="CMJTwo">{{cite magazine |title=OTEP |magazine=[[CMJ New Music Monthly]] |issn=1074-6978 |number=102 |page=19 |year=2002}}</ref> Allmusic described the album as "heavier than Slipknot".<ref name="AM" /> The album's lyrical topics include [[organized religion]] and abuse.<ref name="MTV" /> The band's vocalist [[Otep Shamaya]] said that the album ''Sevas Tra'' "is a story about life's struggles and what you do to overcome them, or what you do to be swallowed by them."<ref name="Songfacts">{{cite web |url=http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=13307 |title=Jonestown Tea by Otep |publisher=Songfacts}}</ref> The album's song "Jonestown Tea" is about [[child sexual abuse]] and is also believed to be about Otep Shamaya being sexually abused by her father.<ref name="Songfacts" /><ref name="Blabbermouth">{{cite news |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/florida-teenager-uses-otep-song-to-inform-mother-of-sexual-abuse-at-hands-of-father/ |title=Florida Teenager Uses OTEP Song To Inform Mother Of Sexual Abuse At Hands Of Father |work=[[Blabbermouth]] |date=January 15, 2006}}</ref> The song was used by a teenager who, along with her sister, was sexually abused by their father, to inform her mother about her father's sexual abuse.<ref name="Blabbermouth" /> Otep Shamaya spoke about the song "Jonestown Tea" saying {{cquote|I wanted to do something dramatic for the record. At one of our rehearsals, management was there and some people from a label scouting us, and we just started (to improvise) ... By the end of the song, which was about 13 or 14 minutes later, people's jaws were on the floor. I'd kind of gone off into this other place and didn't really realize what had occurred. Something remarkable had taken place. Once we'd gone through that and everyone was like, 'Where did that come from? I decided that this was something important that I wanted to express and communicate on the record.<ref name=Blabbermouth />
}} Otep Shamaya called organized religion "a lie".<ref name="MTV" /> Many people have mistaken the song "Menocide" to be [[misandry|against men]]. Otep Shamaya said that it isn't hateful towards men and that it goes against women abuse, including [[violence against women]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.southbendtribune.com/2013-04-04/entertainment/38287380_1_otep-shamaya-metal-band-band-members/2 |title=From Otep, with rage |last=Harrell |first=Jeff |publisher=Southern Bend Tribune |date=April 4, 2013}}</ref>