IGOR CAVALERA Says He Is Not Interested In SEPULTURA Reunion

Robert Williams of Metal-Rules.com recently conducted an interview with former SEPULTURA and current CAVALERA CONSPIRACY drummer Igor Cavalera. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Metal-Rules.com: After leaving SEPULTURA it wasn't long before you and your brother Max started jamming again. How is that working out?

Igor: Really good, I mean, it's like a project so we don't put a lot of pressure into it. We just do things that, they happen, it doesn't have the pressure of being in a band and waiting at home for things to happenit's justI have a lot of fun doing it. I get together with Max and we do albums, now we're gonna do shows together and it doesn't mean that we need to be doing things like we did with SEPULTURA. All the business and all, it's more of a loose kind of thing.

Metal-Rules.com: Is "Inflikted" just a one off for you guys or will CAVALERA CONSPIRACY continue on from this point as a band?

Igor: That's the crazy thing about it, when I spoke to Max first we were like, "Let's do this album and see what happens." Last time I was with Max we were already talking about a next album so it's like if we continue the same vibe that we had on this one, we're gonna do more so It was very simple, we never practiced, we just showed up in the studio, me and Max wrote all the stuff recorded. So for me if it's like that I'm cool with doing more and more stuff. So it's not.definitely not (just) one album.

Metal-Rules.com: So does that mean the end of SOULFLY?

Igor: No, no actually that's the cool thing about it. Max is still doing SOULFLY, I'm still doing MIXHELL and we stop at some point and do CAVALERA and once we get sick of it we can come back to our normal thing.

Metal-Rules.com: Are you on good terms with your former bandmates in SEPULTURA?

Igor: Yeah, yeah it's fine. You know it's like, no drama, I just wanted to continue to do different stuff I wish them all the best.

Metal-Rules.com: So they have your blessing to continue to use the name SEPULTURA without you or Max?

Igor: Yeah, I mean, it's not my choice. I left SEPULTURA same way as Max. I don't think it's my choice to stop them from doing it. I think people have to decide whether they want to see SEPULTURA without me and Max. It's not up to us, really.

Metal-Rules.com: How would you feel about one day doing a full-on SEPULTURA reunion?

Igor: Not really, man. Max wanted to have that, especially for his kids, he wanted his kids to see a SEPULTURA gig once, with the original lineup, butI don't know, I like doing CAVALERA better. It's new music, for me it's great, I don't have a problem with anything we've done in the past, I'm really proud, I just don't wanna live from the past. So the reunion I think for me, it would be kinda like going back and living off what we did before. CAVALERA, for me, is more exciting.

Metal-Rules.com: I read that in the early days of SEPULTURA, you specially handpainted a SEPULTURA t-shirt for Mille Petrozza from KREATOR, you've come a long way since then

Igor: We handpainted some SEPULTURA shirts, we sent one to Mille, we sent one to Chuck [Schuldiner, late DEATH mainman] and we sent one to Trey from MORBID ANGEL and we saw the three of them wearing it in different fanzines, and at the time me and Max were like, "OK. That's it.we don't need to do anything else. We made it." We have these people that we fucking idolize wearing our shirts, that's OK, we don't need anything else. I remember being so happy about it.having the response from Chuck, from all these people and I was like cool, it's like having somebody like Lemmy wearing your shirt.

Read the entire interview at Metal-Rules.com.