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Deftones’ Chino Moreno once helped Max Cavalera bury Soulfly’s debut album on Native American ground to give it “Indigenous power”

“It was kind of crazy, but fun at the same time,” Cavalera says of the unhinged endeavour

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"The guitar tone could flay skin, and his lacerated barks have never sounded so raw." 40 years into his career, Max Cavalera is still finding ways to freshen up his formula with new Soulfly album Chama

You might not be surprised to find that the new Soulfly album bangs

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“I’d been living in a dark room, drinking and taking drugs, and I was done with music. My heart was too broken to think about it”: This frontman overcame death and the loss of his band to make one of the 90s’ essential metal songs

Max Cavalera reveals how heartache led to one of Soulfly’s greatest anthems

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“We were like Dime and Vinnie and the Van Halen brothers combined… Then when everything went down, I found out that we were not as close as we thought”: Max Cavalera on Sepultura’s bloody roots, the rise of Soulfly and how metal became the family business

Max Cavalera takes GW back to the beginning in Brazil and the search for a sound more brutal than anyone, the bitter splits and blessed reunions, and what comes next for Soulfly and Cavalera

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“Every time I slid my hand down the neck, a splinter of wood would stick in my finger and I would start bleeding”: Sepultura co-founder Max Cavalera looks back on his first-ever electric guitar, “Rotten” – and the moment he discovered metal

The metal icon also discusses how Judas Priest and the Brazilian thrash metal band Dorsal Atlântica were crucial in inspiring him and his brother to pursue music seriously

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"Korn stood side of stage looking scared but I didn't want to stop." Max Cavalera on his wildest gig, resurrecting Nailbomb and why he doesn't regret leaving Sepultura

Max Cavalera shares his life lessons from over 30 years on metal's frontlines

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One of the most legendary cult metal projects ever finally came to the UK and put on a hell of a show...but one big thing stopped it being a classic

Max Cavalera's Nailbomb show why they're so revered in the metal scene, even if sound gremlins scupper their momentum

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One of metal’s greatest cult bands have returned after 30 years –but what are the chances of a new album?

Max Cavalera: “If it was all up to me, I’d love to do it”

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"Metal is the most positive thing in the world". Max Cavalera tells it like it is

Sepultura founder and Soulfly star Max Cavalera thinks metal is the greatest – and who are we to argue?

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"They still call it Sepultura, but everybody knows that it's not the same." Max Cavalera isn't getting sentimental over the end of Sepultura, says fans feel that he and his brother Iggor carry the true spirit of the band

"I don't have nothing to do with what they're doing, with the disbanding of the band."

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“If it wasn’t working, I could see the point of changing. But we were more successful than ever. It was incomprehensible”: The tumultuous story of Sepultura’s Roots album and their bitter split

How Sepultura made their most important album – and how it tore them apart

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“The seven deadly sins were invented by the church. They weren’t invented by God so I don’t give them too much credence“: How Max Cavalera came through his personal dark ages to make Soulfly’s Omen album

Quitting? That’s not Max Cavalera’s style

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“It's really very disrespectful... the artistic value is zero.” Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser blasts his former bandmates Max and Iggor Cavalera for their decision to re-record the Brazilian band's early albums

Max and Iggor Cavalera's re-recordings of Sepultura's Bestial Devastation EP, Morbid Visions and Schizophrenia aren't appreciated by guitarist Andreas Kisser

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"Thirty years after Cop Killer, Ice-T is still committed to making music that goes harder than the rest." From THAT Pink Floyd cover to collabs with Corpsegrinder, Max Cavalera and more, new Body Count album Merciless is an ice-cold knock-out

Body Count only seem to improve with age courtesy of their heaviest album yet

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Bloodstock announces 13 bands - including an ultra-rare performance from Max Cavalera's Nailbomb - for 2025 and weekend tickets sell out

August's Bloodstock line-up just got even bigger with the likes of Ministry, Nailbomb and Fear Factory joining the bill

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“If you told teenage me, ‘One day Ozzy will tell you to keep making music,’ I’d have slapped you!” Ozzy Osbourne encouraged Max Cavalera to carry on after leaving Sepultura

Max Cavalera entered a six-month depression after quitting Sepultura in 1996, and he credits his wife and The Prince Of Darkness with lifting him back up

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“I’m like, ‘I don’t know, man! I’m in Arizona!’” In 1993, Kurt Cobain asked Sepultura man Max Cavalera where to get heroin in Brazil

When trying to score drugs at a South American festival, Nirvana’s leader turned to what he believed to be a local expert

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“It’s definitely out of the question. It's not gonna happen”: Two weeks ago, a Sepultura reunion looked likely – but now Max Cavalera has changed his mind

Having already buried the hatchet with his brother, Igor, Cavalera says there’s no longer any need for a classic-era Sepultura return

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"People are so misinformed": Sepultura is the one metal reunion that hasn't happened but Max Cavalera seems to now have the final word on the matter

"It was a lot of betrayal and a lot of stuff that people don't know about"

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Max Cavalera isn’t open to a classic Sepultura reunion anymore: “The more the time passes by, the more I feel that I don’t need to”

Despite claiming he was open to a Roots-era reunion just two weeks ago, Sepultura’s former frontman has now said he doesn’t feel the need

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“It reminds me of the days when I used to put on punk rock shows and I’d get my friends to come”: the story of Dave Grohl and Corey Taylor’s forgotten punk-metal supergroup Teenage Time Killers

Formed by members of Corrosion Of Conformity and My Ruin, Teenage Time Killers were the ultimate 2010s punk-metal supergroup

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Sepultura's Andreas Kisser would be open to doing one final show with Max and Iggor Cavalera: "it would be amazing"

Could we see Sepultura's farewell end with an original lineup show?

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9 heavy metal stars who made it big with their first band

From Lars Ulrich to Lzzy Hale, these are the rare metal musicians who hit the big time on their very first go

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"The Superstition tour is heading your way." Soulfly announce summer tour of the UK and Europe

Max Cavalera is bringing Soulfly back to Europe in July/August

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“I narrowed it down to the bare essentials and found that three strings were all I needed”: 10 guitarists who played with missing strings on purpose… and the weird reasons why

Forget six strings: for some guitarists, all you need is one…

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