Max Cavalera (SOULFLY, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY) is featured in a new interview with Brandon Marshall at Sonic Excess. An excerpt is available below.

Sonic Excess: Do Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy each have a different meaning to you?

Cavalera: "Quite different. Soulfly for me is jamming with different people from time to time and bringing in different elements of metal. With Soulfly, I like to go around the world, get different music, and put it together with metal. It’s what I do in Soulfly, and I love it. Cavalera is my own love of metal and playing with Igor. I wanted to play with Igor, and I missed playing with Igor for 10 years. It was the hardest 10 years of my life. When we got back together, I said to him, 'Let’s play the old shit, but let’s create something new too.' I wrote Inflicted, and he was like 'Ohh fuck yeah man!'

Sonic Excess: When you got back together with Igor, was it like it was in the old days? Did you have the magic back right away?

Cavalera: "Very much. Playing with Igor to me is like something that never lost its magic. It’s there all the time. We can spend 10 years without doing it. When we get back to it, it’s right back; it never goes away. It was really easy on the writing side of it too. I was pretty inspired when I was writing Inflicted and really inspired to write with him again. It was like 'I’m writing with my brother again!', and that’s badass. We heard from all kind of people, from James Hetfield (METALLICA) to Dave Grohl (THE FOO FIGHTERS), saying how cool it was that the brothers were back again. When you hear people from other bands commenting on it, it’s great. That gave me a boost too. When it was time to go back into the studio and write Blunt Force Trauma, I was even more excited. It was like I turned myself into a Red Bull, full of energy, and said, “Let’s do this!” Blunt Force Trauma was written in this super-hype condition, a lot of fast songs, super thrash influenced. It also has a groove that we had inside of us from the early Sepultura days, with songs like 'Desperate Cry', 'Dead Embryonic Cells', and 'Murder'. There is a Max and Igor groove that is really contagious, and I wanted to have that back in Cavalera Conspiracy with the fast stuff."

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Cavalera Conspiracy released their new album, Blunt Force Trauma, in March. The tracklistings of the standard and limited edition formats 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)