IGOR CAVALERA Says SEPULTURA Worked Hard To Achieve Early Success

GoetiaMedia.com conducted an interview with former SEPULTURA and current CAVALERA CONSPIRACY drummer Igor Cavalera at this year's Hellfest, which was held June 19-21 in Clisson, France. You can now watch the chat below. A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET).

On the fact that he carried on with SEPULTURA for ten years after his brother Max left the band:

Igor: "I was trying… That was the thing… I was trying to continue playing, and then, at one point, I didn't really feel anymore to do that, so I stopped. And then, when Max called me to do CAVALERA [CONSPIRACY], I was, like, 'This is really cool.' Because it's a new project. We can do new music — not just live from the past, but from the future. Write new music, tour, and play with different music, so that's what attracted me to do SEPULTURA."

On whether he sees CAVALERA CONSPIRACY as a continuation of SEPULTURA:

Igor: "It's different. It's a whole different thing. Of course, a big part of SEPULTURA is still with me and Max, but it's not SEPULTURA. It's a whole new different, you know… Of course, we do love what we did in the past, but we also love what we're doing now and in the future, so it's a combination."

On what made SEPULTURA an unlikely international success story after coming out of Brazil in the mid-1980s:

Igor: "It's very hard to say, 'cause there is a lot of really, really good bands in Brazil, always — back in the day, now… a lot of new bands. It's hard to say what makes a band [become a success] in Europe or in the U.S. I don't know… Like, for us, we worked a lot. I remember when we did [SEPULTURA's] 'Arise' [album], we did two hundred and something shows in one year; it's almost like the whole year playing. And some people, they don't remember that. They think, 'Oh, it just happened for SEPULTURA.' We worked like a horse, man, we worked like crazy to get to where we got. So I think it's about working. Every band has to really work really hard. Otherwise, you can't just sit down and wait for things to happen to you. You need to go after it."

Igor left SEPULTURA in June 2006 due to "artistic differences." His departure from the band came five months after he announced that he was taking a break from SEPULTURA's touring activities to spend time with his second wife and their new son (who was born in January 2006).

In 1996, Max exited SEPULTURA after the rest of the band fired Max's wife Gloria as their manager.