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Is creative Lyric writing getting stale or is it me? With bands going for concept albums it kind of make you think something is wrong in the mind of the lyricists or something.

I love Judas Priest but this whole new concept album about Nostradamus has me wondering. You kind of saw this type of song writing with Lochness on their last release Angel Of Retribution, which I thought was a pretty god come back album. But it depicted the Lochness Monster as some blood thirsty beast preying on man in Scotland. Does anyone else kind of find that a bit hokey? So this next album is going to be 23 songs about the predictions of Nostradamus. We’ll see how it turns out and you can hear the first track from it on Monday here: www.livenation.com/judaspriest

Next on the concept list is Sepultura, or Andreas Kisser, Paulo Jr and two other guys. Their next record is going to be a concept album about the cult classic Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Max did a concept song on Cavalera Conspiracy called Ultra-violent. I don’t know exactly what this will bring to the record either. If you’re an uncultured bastard and haven’t seen A Clockwork Orange, go rent it, keep an open mind and enjoy the brilliance of Stanley Kubrick.

Concept albums have been done here and there by various bands. Mastodon did one with Leviathan and that actually went over quite well, The Misfits did two of them as they usually do with American Psycho and Famous Monsters. Back when they were doing it with Glenn Danzig it was done much better in a songwriter sense. It wasn’t so obviously cheesy. While American Psycho was not a bad record, Famous Monsters was absolute garbage. A lot of Led Zeppelin songs were based around J.R. Token’s The Lord Of The Rings. It just brings me back to my original question. Are concept albums a sign that the lyricist has writers block and is turning to singing stories written by someone else?

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Now back to the Brazilian beasts! Sure if they have a reunion the shows are going to be unbelievable! A record would hopefully be in the works but I doubt if it will sound like Sepultura at their peak. When I say Sepultura at their peak I mean the “Arise” and “Chaos” era. Roots Bloody Roots was a cool but not one of my favorites. I sincerely hope that Max and Andreas can put the past aside and get back together if only for a reunion tour. That would make me a happy head-banging bastard! Maiden did it…why can’t Sepultura. Come one, Max. Pick up that phone, give them a call. If you can get back with your brother after all these years, then you can get back with old friends and make a million fans happy!

Below is the interview where Max mentions the possibilities of a reunion curtosy of Blabbermouth.net. Enjoy.

When asked if he would be willing to reconnect with the SEPULTURA members Andreas Kisser (guitar) and Paul Xisto Pinto Jr. (bass) if they tried to reach out to him after all these years of not talking to each other, Max said, “I’ve been thinking about this a lot and I think that maybe I should do that with them like Igor did with me — just call them [out of the blue one day] and surprise them. Maybe that’s the real way to fix the things between SEPULTURA and maybe there’ll be some kind of cool reunion… put all the bullshit aside. Let’s see [what happens]… because, you know, I regard Andreas and Paulo and Igor as more than just friends. Igor is my brother, but Andreas and Paulo are very close and they share very big, strong moments with me that many people have not shared.”

Image Source: This is a tat’ I got on my forearm about 11 years ago. Sometimes I wish I didn’t get it there but I don’t regret getting it.

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