SOULFLY Mainman Comments On Covering MARILYN MANSON On New Kerrang! Compilation
June 20, 2007, 17 years ago
As of today, June 20th, the Kerrang! Magazine that is available on your local magazine shelves and online at Kerrang.com includes Higher Voltage, an exclusive free covers compilation that includes SOULFLY's most recently recorded song from the studio. In April, Soulfly made the decision to go to L.A. to work on an interpretation of the MARILYN MANSON original, 'The Beautiful People'. The decision to do this cover might seem odd to some Soulfly fans, but Max justifies his decision with these words: "although we're from very different music and visual styles, there's much respect and admiration and we both don't give a fuck about this bullshit society we live in."
When Soulfly Web interviewed Max in April, he had this to say about Soulfly's decision to contribute their interpretation of a "classic" rock song to the Kerrang compilation.
"Kerrang! sent me a list of songs that I could do for the compilation from England with many different covers we could do. Most of the stuff was classic; stuff like AC/DC, DEF LEPPARD, and Marilyn Manson. There was even SEPULTURA, but there was no way I'm going to cover my own song for Kerrang!. Then I thought that Marilyn Manson would be cool, because it's a very weird song already. It's a heavy song, in a way, but it's also very different from the type of stuff that we usually play. So I thought it could be one of those songs that I can do into a cool cover, and I can stamp the Soulfly spirit and my vibe on top of it. It was very exciting, and I'll tell you what, Marc went crazy in the studio. He recorded guitar for 11 hours or something like that. It was in L.A. and was engineered by Logan Mader (currently of the production team Dirty Icon), who is a former Soulfly member and the former Machine Head guitarist. So it's going to be very cool, very kick ass, and I can't wait for people to hear it."Upon hearing the final mix that Logan sent to Kerrang!, Max had this to say: "The track came out just as I was hoping it would: direct and to the point. Like a hostage crisis, cannibal holocaust, or like Marilyn Manson meets the Brazilian Godzilla with four heads ready to destroy the planet."
Kerrang!'s Higher Voltage features the following tracklisting: LOSTPROPHETS - 'Davidian' (MACHINE HEAD), AIDEN - 'Drain You' (NIRVANA), FIGHTSTAR - 'Breaking The Law' (JUDAS PRIEST), BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - 'Creeping Death' (METALLICA), THE AUTOMATIC - 'Epic' (FAITH NO MORE), FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND - 'The Boys Are Back In Town' (THIN LIZZY), MADINA LAKE - 'Today' (SMASHING PUMPKINS), SIGN - 'Youth Gone Wild' (SKID ROW), THEAUDITION - 'Livin' On A Prayer' (BON JOVI), SOULFLY - 'Beautiful People' (MARILYN MANSON), THE BLACKOUT - 'My Generation' (LIMP BIZKIT), YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO - 'Feel Good Hit Of The Summer' (QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE), DARKEST HOUR - 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off' (DEAD KENNEDYS), GALLOWS - 'Nervous Breakdown' (BLACK FLAG), BRING ME THE HORIZON - 'Eyeless' (SLIPKNOT).