MAX CAVALERA Talks New CAVALERA CONSPIRACY Album; Audio Available

Max Cavalera of SOULFLY and CAVALERA CONSPIRACY was interviewed by Andrew Haug of Triple J's "The Racket". Listen to the program in streaming audio at the Triple J web site: Windows Media, Real Media (NOTE: The first part of the Cavalera interview begins around the 36-minute mark). Check out the program's entire playlist at this location. The interview can also be streamed in two parts using the audio player below.

When asked about the recently completed sophomore album from CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, Max's collaboration with his brother and former SEPULTURA bandmate Igor, Max said, "Yeah, [we] just got done last week, so I just got back from the studio. It's finished. We recorded 15 songs, 13 beings originals for the album, and then we did a BLACK SABBATH cover, 'Electric Funeral', that's gonna come out on a Metal Hammer compilation in Europe. And we did a BLACK FLAG cover, a song called 'Six Pack'. We also had a collaboration with Roger [Miret] from AGNOSTIC FRONT — he sings on a song called 'Lynch Mob' that we did together in the studio in L.A.; he flew to L.A. to do this collaboration. I was really proud because, to me, Roger is like the godfather of New York hardcore; AGNOSTIC FRONT is one of the pioneer bands of the whole New York hardcore scene, so it was like recording with a legend of hardcore. The CAVALERA album is really intense; that's all I can say about it. It makes the first album sound like pop music."

Regarding the songwriting and recording process for the new CAVALERA CONSPIRACY album, Max said, "I wrote a lot of the stuff and I sent it to Brazil to [Igor] in the form of a CD — like four tracks of the riffs — so that he would be familiarized with the songs by the time I got to the studio. And then I brought another CD with me, which was, like, newer songs I had just got done [writing] for the album. And everything else we did in the studio together — me and him there on the spot. I told him the idea of making a very intense album with some songs being only a minute and a half, so it's a cross [between] MINOR THREAT and SLAYER and CAVALERA CONSPIRACY. So the idea was really cool — Igor really liked that — and from that point on, the album just grew and song after song, every day a new song came in. And I'm really happy with it. I think people are gonna be blown away when they hear it. I think it's a pretty cool album."

Roadrunner Records has confirmed that the sophomore album from CAVALERA CONSPIRACY will not see the light of day until early 2011.

CAVALERA CONSPIRACY once again tracked the effort with Logan Mader (ex-MACHINE HEAD/SOULFLY guitarist),who co-produced the album with Max. Logan is also mixing the follow-up to the band's debut album, "Inflikted", which has sold less than 50,000 copies in the United States since its March 2008 release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Johny Chow (a.k.a. John Mark Bechtel; FIREBALL MINISTRY, SOULS OF WE, ex-SYSTEMATIC, MY RUIN) was recruited by CAVALERA CONSPIRACY to play bass for the group as the replacement for Joe Duplantier of the French progressive death metallers GOJIRA. Duplantier laid down all the bass tracks on "Inflikted", but was busy in the studio working on the latest GOJIRA CD and was unable to join CAVALERA CONSPIRACY on the road.

Upcoming CAVALERA CONSPIRACY shows:

July 02 - Topvar Rockfest - Bratislava, Slovakia
July 08 - Getaway Rock Festival - Gavle, Sweden
July 09 - Norway Rock - Kvinesdal, Norway

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