CAVALERA CONSPIRACY frontman Max Cavalera is featured in a new interview with Ultimate-Guitar.com. An excerpt is available below.

UG: Was Cavalera Conspiracy built around the song 'Inflikted'? Did you actually write it when you were working on SOULFLY’s Omen album?

Cavalera: "No, actually it was a song that was written and I had the lyrics for it and it didn’t belong to anybody; it was just one of my songs. When I started talking to Iggor (Cavalera/brother) again, I had the idea to show him that song and to get him excited and to make a band with him. So that’s when I show him the 'Inflikted' song in a demo CD kind of thing and he really liked it and that was the kickstart point for the Cavalera Conspiracy. In fact we called the band INFLIKTED for a while before the name Cavalera Conspiracy was found."

UG: When you wrote 'Inflikted' did you think you’d come up with a killer riff? Something that Iggor would really relate to?

Cavalera: "I was hoping to hook him up with that song. It sounded really cool and it had all the parts and it had the chorus and I did some rough vocals on it. It made an impression on him that he would think, 'Alright, this sounds good; this is exciting. We can start doing something together.' That was my idea to get him excited because when we first started talkin’ he wanted to just be brothers again; he didn’t say anything about making music. So I was the one that was the person to get him back into music to play with me again. And then one of the things I used was this song. So I said to him, 'Hey, I wrote this song, man, it’s for us. It’s for our new project together so check it out. What do you think?' And he loved the song; he was like, 'Yeah, this song kicks ass, man, I can really do some cool drumming on top of that.' And then we went from that."

UG: When you first got back together with Iggor for the Inflikted sessions, what was that like? Did it take a little while getting used to one another again after being apart for so many years?

Cavalera: "It took a little while. The first time we played together was in Phoenix and it was during a Soulfly show, the Dana show [the annual D-Low memorial concert for Max’s stepson Dana Wells who was killed in a car accident 11 years ago] and Iggor came and played 'Roots' and 'Attitude' and I think it was 'Refuse/Resist' and the crowd went totally nuts. That’s when I told him in the dressing room, 'Man, we gotta keep playing; we have to continue playing together. ‘Cause you saw the crowd tonight; they just went apeshit seeing us together. We gotta continue this; we can’t stop.' I was like, 'I’m gonna dig in writing some stuff and I’ll show you some stuff.' Then I showed him 'Inflikted' but I had another 12 or so songs. I put aside a bunch of riffs and sent them to Brazil, which is the way that I work: I separate the riffs with drum machine and I make them into complete kind of songs. I sent them out to Brazil so Iggor gets familiarized with them and then we went into the studio after that."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Cavalera Conspiracy will release their new album, Blunt Force Trauma, on March 28th in Europe and March 29th in North America, on standard CD and special edition CD/DVD. They are offering a pre-order of a Limited Edition Bundle which features the special edition album on LP (with a bonus track), plus a CD/DVD, here.

The tracklistings are as follows:

Standard CD:

'Warlord'

'Torture'

'Lynch Mob'

'Killing Inside'

'Thrasher'

'I Speak Hate'

'Target'

'Genghis Khan'

'Burn Waco'

'Rasputin'

'Blunt Force Trauma'

Special Edition CD/DVD:

'Warlord'

'Torture'

'Lynch Mob'

'Killing Inside'

'Thrasher'

'I Speak Hate'

'Target'

'Genghis Khan'

'Burn Waco'

'Rasputin

'Blunt Force Trauma'

'Psychosomatic'*

'Jihad Joe'*

'Electric Funeral'*

(*Bonus tracks)

Bonus DVD - Live at Les Eurockéennes Festival, Belfort, France, July 5, 2008:

'Inflicted'

'Sanctuary'

'Territory'

'Terrorize'

'The Doom Of All Fires'

'Inner Self/Nevertrust'

'Arise/Dead Embryonic Cells'

'Desperate Cry/Propaganda'

'Wasting Away'

'Black Ark'

'Holiday In Cambodia/Biotech Is Godzilla'

'Hearts Of Darkness'

'Refuse/Resist'

'Troops Of Doom'

'Must Kill'

'Roots Bloody Roots'

'Sanctuary' (video)