Max Cavalera (SOULFLY, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY) is featured in a new career-spanning interview with Ultimate-Guitar.com. An excerpt is available below:

UG: What kind of music did you want to make on the first Soulfly record?

Cavalera: "Of course I was going to bring elements from SEPULTURA because that’s my style. Like my voice and the way I do my choruses and my riffs, they’re all gonna sound similar. Some of them are gonna sound similar to what I did in Sepultura but I started Soulfly as an opportunity to try other things and that’s why I like the first record so much. I got a chance to try some percussion things that was not done before and some new ideas. We had a great guitar player called Lucio (Maia, nee Jackson Bandeira) and he was into JIMI HENDRIX and he was doing all these cool kinda Hendrix solos on some parts of the album."

UG: The tradition of doing a track called 'Soulfly' on each album began with the Soulfly record.

Cavalera: 'Soulfly' was born, which was an instrumental that gave birth to the line of songs I did on all the Soulfly records. They were instrumental, melodic and kind of like landscape music I call it. Like cinematographic and I imagine more like movies when I’m making these songs. It’s more really like ambient sounds and one of the beautiful things that made Soulfly different."

UG: You also had outside players come in and play on Soulfly.

Cavalera: "I always thought it would be cool to have guests. So on the first record we had Chino Moreno from the DEFTONES and we had Benji Webbe from DUB WAR and SKINDRED. And of course we had, unfortunately, Fred Durst (laughs).

UG: Why do you say unfortunately?

Cavalera: "I don’t regret, but I don’t like what he did afterwards. At that time 'Bleed' did come out as a good song and he did a good job on that song. So I have to admit at that time he was cool. He was a cool guy at that time too and he changed later and turned into a rock star later but at that time he was pretty awesome. He even came to the video and we did a video together and everything was cool. A year later we’re playing right across the street from each other and some of the roadies came by and I’m like, 'Where’s Fred? Is he coming by?' And they said, 'Oh, he’s too big for this, man. He can’t be here.' I was like, 'That’s bullshit, man.' So whatever, life goes on."

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Soulfly's new album, Enslaved, was released on March 13th via Roadrunner Records. The standard CD includes the following 11 tracks:

'Resistance'

'World Scum'

'Intervention'

'Gladiator'

'Legions'

'American Steel'

'Redemption of Man By God'

'Treachery'

'Plata O Plomo'

'Chains'

'Revengeance'

The digital-only edition includes the following three bonus tracks:

'Slave'

'Bastard'

'Soulfly VIII'

The band's new video, for the track 'World Scum', featuring CATTLE DECAPITATION's Travis Ryan, can be seen below:

The band recently uploaded a new webisode featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the making of Enslaved. Check out two available webisodes below:

Enslaved was recorded at Tallcat Studios in Phoenix, Arizona and was produced by Zeuss, the seasoned knob twiddler behind some of the most notable bands in metal today, such as SHADOWS FALL, HATEBREED, THE RED CHORD and more.

As is customary with Soulfly, the band has introduced some new and unexpected elements into the mix, including a guest violinist. Soulfly also collaborates with two metal veterans: Dez Fafara of DEVILDRIVER and Travis Ryan of CATTLE DECAPITATION. With Dez and Max sharing a longtime connection through the Roadrunner family, it was only a matter of time before Fafara guested on a Soulfly album. Meanwhile, Ryan said it was "an honor to receive a call from someone you had pictures of on your wall as a kid."

Cavalera also wrote a song, 'Revengeance' about his slain stepson Dana, whose death was the catalyst for the creation of Soulfly. He partners with his sons Igor and Richie on vocals, while his other son Zyon plays drums. It is the first time Max has performed with three of his sons.

The band's lineup now includes bassist Tony Campos, formerly of STATIC-X, and drummer David Kinkade, formerly of BORKNAGAR, alongside frontman Max Cavalera and guitarist Marc Rizzo. You can see a photo of the new lineup below: