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\"\"<\/a>“I think it\u2019s all about the energy in our show and everybody does the best they can and it doesn\u2019t matter if we\u2019re playing for ten people or ten thousand people we still have the same energy on every night.\u00a0 No matter what and it\u2019s a good time for the band, we\u2019re coming out of an American tour that we just finished and should be a perfect time for Australia.”<\/p>\n

Max Cavalera has been a main player in the Metal scene for a almost 30 years through his bands Sepultura, Nailbomb, Soulfly and now with Cavalera Conspiracy, the band that saw him reunite with his brother Iggor after 10 years of beng apart and not playing together, they’ve now given us two albums, their newest being ‘Blunt Force Trauma’ released earlier this year which is a brutal Metal album that needs to be heard.<\/p>\n

On the way to Australia for the first time as Cavalera Conspiracy for The Big Day Out as well as their own headlining shows, we had the opportunity to speak to Max about ‘Cavalera’ as he calls the band and what we can expect when they hit our shores in January as well as a bit of a preview of what we can expect from the next Soulfly record and the future of Cavalera Conspiracy.<\/p>\n

This is your first time to Australia as Cavalera Conspiracy, what\u2019s taken so long?<\/strong>
\nWe were supposed to go a while ago we were going to open for Judas Priest but the rumour I heard is that when they heard Cavalera they thought we were too heavy and I thought that was fantastic.\u00a0 If Judas Priest thinks we\u2019re too heavy we\u2019re doing something right.\u00a0 Then we got kicked out of that tour, so I was just like we\u2019ll wait until something comes up, we\u2019re going to continue doing what we do so we\u2019re going to continue touring, then this offer came out of the blue to do the Big Day Out and do some other headline shows and it actually came in perfect time as it\u2019s going to be the last thing Cavalera is doing for a while. It\u2019s going to be the end of the world tour for \u2018Blunt Force Trauma\u2019 and then after that I got back to Soulfly for a while, I\u2019ve got a new Soulfly record coming out next year and then with Cavalera we\u2019re just going to do the third album later on in the future, so it as great, it came out at a perfect time, you know, I don\u2019t know why it took so long but it\u2019s perfect and it\u2019s the first time I\u2019m going to be in Australia with Iggor since 94, Sepultura Chaos AD tour was the last time we were together in Australia, 94, so it\u2019s a long time ago.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be great, I think we\u2019re going to be super excited to be back in Australia with Iggor, with Cavalera and we\u2019re going to have a great time.<\/p>\n

What can people expect from a Cavalera Conspiracy show?<\/strong>
\nWell the show has really progressed a lot since the band started, we\u2019re getting more and more tight as a unit and the four of us playing live we know each other better.\u00a0 The set list also has been changing through the years, of course now there\u2019s two records out we can play a lot more Cavalera material and we still play some Sepultura classic stuff, some of the old stuff; \u2018Roots\u2019 and \u2018Refuse Resist\u2019 and stuff like that but now it\u2019s more combined with the Cavalera stuff so you know you play a Sepultura song, you play two Cavalera songs, or three Cavalera songs then another Sepultura song then two or three more Cavalera songs, so it feels more like a Cavalera show which is what we wanted from the beginning and we\u2019ll finally be able to do that.\u00a0 It\u2019s great, it\u2019s very energetic, very powerful set, I don\u2019t even have time to change a shirt on the Cavalera set, it just goes one song after the other, and it\u2019s all about the energy and its great.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s all about the energy in our show and everybody does the best they can and it doesn\u2019t matter if we\u2019re playing for ten people or ten thousand people we still have the same energy on every night.\u00a0 No matter what and it\u2019s a good time for the band, we\u2019re coming out of an American tour that we just finished and should be a perfect time for Australia.<\/p>\n

Do you still enjoy playing the old songs and can you see there ever being a time you won\u2019t need to play them anymore?<\/strong>
\nI still enjoy playing them, you know I think there\u2019s something about a song when it\u2019s old like that like \u2018Troops Of Doom\u2019 or \u2018Inner Self\u2019, it takes people back to that time, so I see a lot of time at the back of the venue we\u2019re playing the song and the guy stands there with his hands standing up and he\u2019s almost like freaking out, almost in a state of trans, it\u2019s like unbelievable and I feel that man I feel from them, and I talk to them after the show and they\u2019re like \u2018I can\u2019t believe you played \u2018Troops Of Doom\u2019, that was so awesome\u2019 and I think that\u2019s great to hear that and it\u2019s something that only happens with old songs.\u00a0 New songs, it takes them years to get to that point, and to play them with Iggor which is the original guy I did these songs with and wrote them with Iggor when I was in Sepultura and it\u2019s great.\u00a0 There\u2019s something really special about that and that\u2019s why I like doing them in the Cavalera set, there\u2019s some magic about them, it\u2019s really cool.<\/p>\n

As you mentioned, you\u2019re here playing the Big Day Out as well as your own headlining show, how do you treat a festival show compared to a club show?<\/strong>
\nIt is different, the festival is shorter, we don\u2019t get to play that much.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure the Big Day Out they haven\u2019t told us how long we have to play yet, but normally its 45 minutes, the most we play at a festival is an hour, it never goes more than an hour and our headline show is an hour and a half.\u00a0 We get to play more obscure songs and the headline show is also smaller and you get closer to your audience so you can talk to the audience and touch them, big festivals you\u2019re a little far away and there\u2019s different dynamics, but we do good on both.\u00a0 We\u2019re a band that\u2019s prepared for both, we do really good on our headline shows and we do really good at festival shows, Cavalera Conspiracy is built for both and we love doing both.\u00a0 I love the festivals and I love the headline shows, we just like to play, being live to me is the best feeling in the world to me and I love to play it.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been to Australia a few times, what\u2019s your take on the Aussie metal crowds and how they compare with those around the world?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s one of the best and I\u2019m not just saying that to kiss your ass or anything ha ha but it\u2019s true, Australia from the beginning from my Sepultura days, the first time I went over I was so excited, I was like \u2018wow they really like their metal here\u2019 and I came back many other time with Soulfly in Big Day Out in 98 and we came back with Hatebreed and Megadeth and with City Of Fire.\u00a0 Australia\u2019s been good to me man, the \u2018Third World Posse\u2019 EP was released only in Australia, it was an Australian thing that Sepultura had, it was only for Australia and very special, and I think I have a cool connection with the Australian audience and I think every time I\u2019m there they really appreciate it and they like having me there, and I like to be there, I like the place, I like the country and I love the fans and we have great fans and we have great shows so I\u2019m very excited to be back.<\/p>\n

Your second album has been out now for a while, how has the reaction been to this one?<\/strong>
\nThe reactions been great, it\u2019s growing on people I can tell, we\u2019re playing more stuff from the new album and I can tell the people are singing the songs more now, stuff like \u2018Killing Inside\u2019 and I Speak Hate\u2019 and \u2018Genghis Khan\u2019 and I hear crowds singing these songs and it\u2019s really catchy and I think it\u2019s a proof that the album was approved by them.\u00a0 On the other hand there\u2019s a lot of really thrashy stuff like \u2018Torture\u2019 and \u2018Blunt Force Trauma\u2019 which is really hardcore powerful thrash stuff just pure brutality and I love playing those too, they don\u2019t have really a lot of sing alongs and they\u2019re more thrashy sort of songs and they\u2019re more for the mosh pit, more of a circle pit reaction and I think judging by that, it was the right album to make.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little heavier than the first one, a little more aggressive and it was the way we wanted to do it and we succeeded.\u00a0 I think mission was accomplished we entered the studio to just make a more aggressive record, it was the only thing on my mind when I went to do this second Cavalera.\u00a0 I told myself I want to make a more aggressive record.\u00a0 I want to make a more brutal record than the first one and whatever else happens it will happen.\u00a0 Some good moments on the record like \u2018Killing Inside\u2019 and \u2018Genghis Khan\u2019 and \u2018I Speak Hate\u2019 gave me a surprise, I wasn\u2019t really expecting them to turn out the way they did, it\u2019s really cool, I\u2019m glad that people like it and I\u2019m glad\u00a0 to be playing them.<\/p>\n

Two records in now, is it safe to say that Cavalera Conspiracy is a band that is here to stay?<\/strong>
\nYeah I think so.\u00a0 I\u2019ll always have Soulfly because it\u2019s the band I created, the band that pretty much saved me and my career after Sepultura, so Soulfly always has a place in my heart but Cavalera is very special because of Iggor and my connection with my brother.\u00a0 I will continue making records with him and we\u2019re going to go at our own pace and we\u2019re not in a hurry and we don\u2019t need to release a lot of albums, we can take the time and release albums slowly and make sure they\u2019re good records and do them in a certain amount of time.\u00a0 The same with the touring, with Cavalera we don\u2019t tour as much as Soulfly, it doesn\u2019t do that much touring but when we do it it\u2019s very special and very unique, so that\u2019s what I like about Cavalera, it\u2019s a little more exclusive than Soulfly.\u00a0 But I love doing both, I love to be part of both and it\u2019s something that I can\u2019t explain, playing with my brother it\u2019s something I wanted to do for a long time, the ten years he\u2019s been apart from me have been really difficult and now to be back talking to him again, playing music with him again, it\u2019s great, it\u2019s fantastic.\u00a0 It\u2019s something I really look forward to doing you know\u2026<\/p>\n

Has playing with Iggor again lit a fire under you?<\/strong>
\nOh yeah, it was awesome, it was a feeling that the first time I jammed with him it was like the time never stopped, it was like those ten years never mattered, we were right back where we left off in 96.\u00a0 That just showed to me the power of music.\u00a0 We grew up, we discovered our instruments as kids when we were in Brazil as little kids, together, me and him, we started playing together we learned how to play them together from nothing, from scratch and through the years we got good at it, we got better at it and we learned to write songs together and I learned to write riffs and show them to Iggor and he really liked to put drums on it and we still do that today.\u00a0 Very similar to when we were kids, the same energy the same excitement, so making a Cavalera record to me today is very exciting, same excitement as when I was doing Sepultura records and its very cool and its awesome to play with Iggor again and I think he\u2019s a great drummer, he\u2019s gotten better through the years and he\u2019s one of the hardest drummers too, he really hits hard on the snare and you can feel the power.\u00a0 Like every night I\u2019m right in front of him, he\u2019s right behind me and I feel the power of the snare the way he hits it is just thunder man and it\u2019s fucking great to be able to hear him play with that much fire on an every night basis, it\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n

Is there anything that you take in to Cavalera that you have learned from both Sepultura and Soulfly?<\/strong>
\nYeah I think everything I did from Sepultura, Nailbomb, on the way you learn about things and in Soulfly I learned to produce the albums of Soulfly, starting with Soulfly 3. I produced both Cavalera records and I feel very good about it and a lot of cool decisions I had to make and it was really fun to make and cool to produce those records and get exactly the sound I was looking for.\u00a0 Those are the things I bring to Cavalera, those are the things I\u2019ve learned through the years, a lot of years with Sepultura just watching producers and see what they did and applied them to my own things and then I decided to do that on my own records and produce them myself and I\u2019ve been doing that for a couple of years and it\u2019s great, it\u2019s very exciting because nobody really gets to mess with the vision you have. So you know I think a producer and can be a good thing and a bad thing.\u00a0 A producer can come in and change and entire band into something they\u2019re not, it\u2019s a bad thing and if you know what you have and you like what you have then you should just go for it and explore that, if you know what a band is like just got for that and explore that and get more out of it and what the band is about.\u00a0 Sometimes a producer can come in and change all that and you\u2019re not yourself anymore and that\u2019s a bad thing, so if I have control to produce the Cavalera records, I make sure that doesn\u2019t happen, we stay loyal to a lot of the principles that was created with Cavalera and stay true with that, all the way to the end.<\/p>\n

We just got word about the new Soulfly record coming in March, while we\u2019re here can you give us any insight as to what we can expect on that?<\/strong>
\nYeah it\u2019s Soulfly\u2019s most extreme record ever.\u00a0 We got a new drummer, David, he comes from the extreme school of Death Metal playing and he really did a great job on the record, it\u2019s killer, there\u2019s a lot of double bass and some of the stuff even sounds like old Morbid Angel and Suffocation and some kind of like Death Metal.\u00a0 It sounds like Soulfly but it\u2019s kind of a new Soulfly, it\u2019s like we took everything we\u2019d done until now and redid it in a most extreme way and to have the band to sound extreme now after eight albums is very exciting, very rejuvenating, it feels like a new beginning in the band.\u00a0 We also have a new bass player, Tony Campos he was in Asesino and Static X, it\u2019s a new band, kind of more exciting to have new members in the band, me and Mark did everything else, all the guitars and Mark did all the solos, I think\u00a0 it\u2019s a very exciting record, I\u2019m very proud of it. There\u2019s a couple of guests on it, there\u2019s Dez from Devil Driver on one song, there\u2019s Travis from Cattle Decapitation sings on one of the songs, there\u2019s one song I did with my kids called \u2018Revengeance\u2019, a song with all of my kids, it\u2019s pretty cool.<\/p>\n

Lastly, do you have a message for your Australian fans before heading Down Under?<\/strong>
\nYeah, I can\u2019t wait man, it\u2019s going to be great, I think the shows are going to be amazing, going to be legendary, it\u2019s awesome to be back there with Iggor since \u201894 we haven\u2019t played there with Iggor and it\u2019s the first time for Cavalera, it\u2019s very exciting, I can\u2019t wait.\u00a0 I\u2019m ready, we are ready to fuck shit up in Australia and hopefully the fans are ready too.<\/p>\n

Essential Information<\/h2>\n

From:<\/strong> Brazil<\/p>\n

Band members:<\/strong> Max Cavalera – rhythm guitar & vocals, Iggor Cavalera – drums, Marc Rizzo – lead guitar, Johny Chow – bass<\/p>\n

Latest release:<\/strong> Blunt Force Trauma (2011, Roadrunner Records)<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.cavaleraconspiracy.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Big Day Out Tour Dates
\nSUNDAY, 22 JANUARY, 2012 – GOLD COAST PARKLANDS<\/strong>
\nTHURSDAY, 26 JANUARY, 2012 – SYDNEY SHOWGROUND<\/strong>
\nSUNDAY, 29 JANUARY, 2012 – MELBOURNE FLEMINGTON RACECOURSE<\/strong>
\nFRIDAY, 3 FEBRUARY, 2012 – ADELAIDE SHOWGROUND<\/strong>
\nSUNDAY, 5 FEBRUARY, 2012 \u2013 BROWNES STADIUM\u00a0<\/strong>(proposed permit pending)
\nTickets available via www.bigdayout.com<\/a> and www.ticketmaster.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n

Cavalera Conspiracy – Headlining shows – Australian Tour Dates 2012<\/strong>
\nTuesday 24th<\/sup> \u00a0January- Panthers- Newcastle<\/strong>
\nTICKETS AVAILABLE FROM WWW.OZTIX.COM.AU<\/a> & WWW.MOSHTIX.COM.AU<\/a>
\nFriday 27th<\/sup> January- ANU BAR- Canberra<\/strong>
\nTICKETS AVAILABLE FROM WWW.TICKETEK.COM.AU<\/a> 132 849
\nSaturday 28th<\/sup> January- Metro Theatre- Sydney<\/strong>
\nTICKETS AVAILABLE FROM WWW.TICKETEK.COM.AU<\/a> 132 849
\nWednesday 1st<\/sup> February- Billboard -Melbourne<\/strong>
\nTICKETS AVAILABLE FROM WWW.TICKETEK.COM.AU<\/a> 132849\u00a0& WWW.MOSHTIX.COM.AU<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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