SOULFLY Frontman Max Cavalera Featured In New Video Interview
December 29, 2010, 13 years ago
Max Cavalera - famed original frontman of Brazilian metal legends SEPULTURA, co-contributor to NAILBOMB, frontman for SOULFLY and CAVALERA CONSPIRACY - is featured in a new video interview with MetalSickness.com. It was conducted on November 18th in Paris, France at Elysée Montmartre . Check it out below.
Cavalera spoke recently with Denver blog Westword. The excerpt below sees Max discussing his lyrical inspiration.
Why are organized religion and repressive, even corrupt, governments such important themes in your work?
"Some of the lyrics are influenced a lot by the time I learned about punk rock and I discovered bands like DEAD KENNEDYS, BAD BRAINS, MISFITS and DISCHARGE. Sometimes they talked about political stuff, and I always found that to be really cool, and I just decided to do that with Sepultura.Sepultura had a political album like Chaos A.D. that concerned itself with politics and war. I continued that in some areas with Soulfly. Some of the songs on the new album are about murder, and there's a song about lethal injection. 'Rise Of The Fallen' is about metalheads in general. Like: It's our time to rise, being the underdogs for so long. Most of the topics are violent.
Omen is probably one of the darkest albums we've done, with lyrics about death in general. Songs like 'Jeffrey Dahmer', and 'Bloodbath & Beyond' - which I took from Bed, Bath & Beyond, making a joke out of the store name. Only in America does that joke really work. In Europe, they don't know what Bed, Bath & Beyond is, so it didn't work over there. Here it's cool."
To read the interview in its entirety, click here.
