![]() Sonic crudity for its own sake is never a selling point for me. And…I’m enjoying the results more than I thought I would. (N.B.: Sepultura never broke up they’re currently led by guitarist Andreas Kisser and bassist Paulo Jr., and have released some good albums, but I never listen to them.) And now they’ve gone all the way into Taylor Swift territory, and re-recorded the band’s earliest releases, the Bestial Devastation EP (originally a split with the mostly forgotten Overdose) and Morbid Visions. In recent years, the Cavalera brothers have been touring and playing Sepultura songs, in an act of overt nostalgic fan service. He’s also put together some interesting side projects like the arty Killer Be Killed (with members of Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon and Converge) and the crushing, primitive Go Ahead And Die, with his son Igor Amadeus Cavalera. Max signed with Nuclear Blast and has put out four albums - 2013’s Savages, 2015’s Archangel, 2018’s Ritual, and 2022’s Totem - which are among the most ferocious material he’s ever recorded. Soulfly, too, seemed to get heavier and angrier with every record. While their sound evolved somewhat from album to album, it was always crude, punishing and heavy as fuck. ( I interviewed Max when it came out.) Their fourth release, 2017’s Psychosis, featured multiple guests, including Justin Broadrick of Godflesh and Dominick Fernow of Prurient and Vatican Shadow. On the third Cavalera Conspiracy album, 2014’s Pandemonium (released on Napalm), Converge’s Nate Newton played bass. On 2011’s Blunt Force Trauma, they were even harder and more punk Duplantier was gone, replaced by Johny Chow, formerly of Fireball Ministry. Inflikted was a crude, noisy blast of hardcore thrash, with Soulfly’s Marc Rizzo on guitar and Gojira’s Joe Duplantier on bass. Their debut album, Inflikted, came out in 2008, while I was editor of Metal Edge magazine I put Max and Iggor on the cover dressed in black suits and sunglasses like the Blues Brothers. The group I really liked at that point was Cavalera Conspiracy, which Max and his brother Iggor (who had stayed with Sepultura when Max left, causing a decade-long rift between the brothers) formed in 2006, after reuniting at a memorial concert for Max’s son. It was pretty good, but it was also their final release for the label. They had abandoned most of the tribal and world-music aspects of their sound in favor of grimy thrash, and released one album, Enslaved, while I was there. ![]() ![]() I came around on Soulfly when I worked for their label, Roadrunner Records, between 20. The Slayer fans weren’t into it, and honestly neither was I. Almost a decade later, in August 2002, I saw Cavalera again, opening for Slayer at NYC’s Roseland with his post- Sepultura group, the tribal nü-metal act Soulfly. I saw Sepultura in 1993 or maybe 1994 at the Newark, NJ shithole Studio One they were touring in support of their then-new album Chaos A.D., with openers Clutch, Fear Factory, and Fudge Tunnel (the band I was really there to see). I’ve been a fan of Max Cavalera’s music for 30 years, off and on.
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