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Andreas Kisser:"It is always hard to change a member, especially such great musicians like Max"

Scott — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:00:30 +0000

I bet Andreas Kisser would love to be interviewed without being asked about Max Cavalera, if not just once. I would also bet that Max would love, just once, to be interviewed without being asked about a Sepultura reunion. In the excerpt below, MetalPaths.com interviewed Sepultura’s Andreas Kisser. I only quoted two of three parts where the Cavalera word was dropped.

Have you listened to the “Cavalera Conspiracy” debut album? Do you think that maybe one day will happen to co-operate again with Max and Igor?
I’ve heard the album, it is not bad but they could do a lot better. For what people was expecting, I think it is very weak. Who knows what the future will be? This is something we don’t think about, I am looking forward to see, respecting our past but working towards the future.

Jean Dolabella is a pretty good drummer though and has left the worldwide press with the greatest impressions and there is no need I guess to mention Derrick’s great work all these years. Was it difficult for you to find members who would perfectly fit to the band?
It is always hard to change a member, especially such great musicians like Max and Igor but we are lucky to find even better ones like Derrick and Jean. They are exceptional guys and musicians, who are helping Sepultura on every level.

This was a pretty good interview. I would love to be able to meet and interview Andreas one day. I missed my chance to see Sepultura with the classic line up back in 96, right before the split.

Read the entire interview at Metalpaths.com.

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Soulfly Tour The UK In February

Scott — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:07:39 +0000

Max Cavalera’s Soulfly will be touring the United Kingdom with 11 dates scheduled so far in February 2009. Soulfly will be touring in support of their latest album, Conquer. Conquer in my opinion is Soulfly’s best album to date, with a more thrash feel to it than previous albums. If you liked the Cavalera Conspiracy but have not like past Soulfly albums you may actually like Conquer as it has a closer sound to Inflikted. Phoenix Arizona’s Incite will tour as support. Incite is fronted by Richie Cavalera, the step-son of Max Cavalera. Tour dates are below.

Soulfly w/ Incite as support:

Feb. 01 – Portsmouth Pyramid Centre
Feb. 02 – Oxford Academy
Feb. 03 – Bristol Academy
Feb. 04 – Dublin Academy
Feb. 05 – Belfast, Ireland
Feb. 06 – Glasgow ABC
Feb. 07 – Manchester Academy 2
Feb. 08 – LeedsMet. University
Feb. 09 – Nottingham Rock City
Feb. 10 – Wolverhamton Wulfrun Hall
Feb. 11 – London Electric Ballroom

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Summer Metal Picks Playlist

Scott — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:17:12 +0000

With summer in the U.S. drawing to an end The b5Media music channels are putting together their summer play lists. A lot of great music has come out this spring and summer and there is much more to come this year in terms of metal. I’ve got into so many bands this year, it’s hard to pick just a few so I’ll pick an album and my favorite song off of it. I was trying to put together one of those cool play list widgets so you could actually listen to my picks, but some of the songs were not available, so I said screw it. If you’re familiar with the bands and songs below then you know what I mean. If you’re not, give them a listen somehow, somewhere.

First up is Firewind’s The Premonition. I wasn’t sure what to make of this band when I first saw the Mercenary Man video on Headbanger’s ball. I’m not usually one for Power Metal, but when I saw these guys at on the Tyranny And Bloodshred tour this summer they blew me away. Gus is an amazing shredder and Apollo is an amazing singer. I like the Allegiance album a bit more than The Premonition but if I had to pick one song from this album it would be Head Up High.

Kataklysm’s Prevail is just a brutal album from beginning to end. Before this I had only heard Manipulator Of Souls on the Nuclear Blast 20th Anniversary set. I thought it was pretty good but wasn’t sure if it was a band that I could get in to. When I bought Prevail it became an instant favorite. The first single Taking The World By Storm is a great metal anthem style tune, with a great rhythm, but I have to pick the title song Prevail as my favorite.

This Is Exile from Whitechapel is a dark and ridiculously heavy album that I’m really into this summer. While it’s not anything really different from most of the extreme metal genre stuff out there right now, it’s still a great album and I can’t wait to see these guys play next month.To All That Are Dead is my pick off of this album.

Amon Amarth is a band that I just got into this weekend. Although this has came out two years ago, With Oden On Our Side is amazing from beginning to end. Heavy riffs, cool vocals and a story being told in between. If you were to close your eyes and listen along you can almost imagine the songs in a visual way…and everyone likes a good Viking story. Ruins To My Memory is my favorite from With Oden On Our Side.

The Black Dahlia Murder is yet another band that I’ve only come to like here recently. For a long time I couldn’t get into the vocals of Trevor Strnad, but same was the case for a lot of bands that I have come to like in the last year. A quick pick from Nocturnal would have to be Of Darkness Spawned.

Seeing Carcass have graced us with a full blown reunion tour, I figured this was a good throw in. Call them grindcore, deathcore, whatever. Carcass is bad ass all the way around. Heartwork, the album and song have always been and probably always will be my favorite. A lot of Carcass fans will say the same thing. Heartwork is an amazing song with great breakdowns, solos etc. Just the way it starts with that tornado sounding introduction that just build up into that pinch harmonic and then a flurry of guitar. Embodiment is another cool song from the Heartwork album. Seeing them live for the first time next month is going to be exhilarating.

Love them or hate them, Slipknot put on a great show and with a new record coming in a little over a week we can expect a lot of buzz about favorites from All Hope Is Gone. From the two that I’ve heard (No I didn’t make the listening party at Hot Topic), being All Hope Is Gone and Psychosocial, I like Psychosocial. I like the chorus and if it’s any sign that more of the album is going to have that side of Corey Taylor to it, then I will probably love it and a bunch of Slipknot fans are going to hate it and say that it sounds too much like Stone Sour. I don’t care either way because I like both bands.

Soulfly’s Conquer still amazes me. I mean, I can’t believe that it’s a Soulfly album. Max is shooting 2 for 2 this year, with Conquer and The Cavalera Conspiracy. My pick from Conquer is Touching The Void. It’s not the fastest song on the album, but it’s one of my favorites on this album. While I’m mentioning The Cavalera Conspiracy, I might as well pick one from that as well. Black Ark is just one of many cool songs from Inflikted as is the first single Sanctuary.

Lastly, to keep the number a nice round 10, I have picked Children Of Bodom’s One Day You Will Cry from Blooddrunk. The first couple of times I listened to this album I really didn’t think it was all that great. While it’s not my favorite COB album, it’s still good. With all the songs on this album, picking one that stands out to me was tough. See, with Blooddrunk all the songs are good, but besides the cover of Ghostriders In The Sky, they all just sound like typical Children Of Bodom songs. So I had to pick one that I liked the most and it was One Day You Will Cry.

There are so many others that deserve a mention but I would be here all day. So what would your list look like?

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Ozzfest Review, Photos And Footage

Scott — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:32:39 +0000

Here is a review of last nights Ozzfest In Texas. I honestly don;t know what to make of it because he’s getting a lot of flack from Blabbermouth (Nothing new, right). But sometimes the people that comment over there are right, but Todd Maternowski of Pegasus News also had some great points. Here’s a couple of excerpts and a video. Click the link at the bottom to read the entire review If you were there and feel the same or different about the show, let us know!

The Calavera Conspiracy, on the other hand, were easily one of the best acts all day not named Metallica or Ozzy. Formerly half of the godlike Brazilian death metal group Sepultura, Max and Igor Calavera joined forces earlier this year to produce Sepultura-esque music together. While the Calavera Conspiracy is not anywhere near the level of their former band (or even of Max’s other band Soulfly), the band was still able to rock the arena with old Sepultura covers, as well as some new material. Later, their specific tribute to Dimebag Darrell would stand out amongst a sea of mediocrity: more on that later.

After ‘Sanitarium’, Metallica played their only disappointing song of the entire night, a cut off their new album Death Magnetic called ‘Cyanide.’ For metal fans who hated St. Anger, I’ve got some bad news: ‘Cyanide’ suffered from all the same problems as the disappointing last album: poor songwriting, low energy, choppy arrangement, and guitarwork that doesn’t quite fit what the rest of the band is doing. While the song had some great riffs, it seemed they were almost immediately snuffed out by some too-complex drum bit or ill-timed tinny guitar solo. While I’m emotionally bound to buy the album anyways –after all, it does say ‘Metallica’ in big letters across the cover– after hearing ‘Cyanide’, I’m a little worried.

Metallica brought the house down, however, with ‘One’. Introduced by a long series of fireworks and impressive pyrotechnics, the band absolutely rocked with their signature ballad to landmine-based tragedy. Although it was difficult to hear Hammet’s guitar solo (for some reason, huge banners were hung directly over the speakers, and occasionally large gusts of wind would cover the sound), the sight of tens of thousands of potential James Hetfields destroying their vocal chords was amazing.

While I’m not disappointed that I don’t live in or near Texas, I would have liked to go to at least one more Ozzfest in my lifetime. I caught Ozzfest in it’s prime back in 97 and I wonder after this years one U.S. tour date, if they will even bother next year. It’s ok though, with as many different tours out there like Mayhem Fest, Summer Slaughter, and Thrash And Burn, do we really need another Ozzfest?

Ozzfest 2008 Review At Pegasus News

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Cavalera Conspiracy Concert To Be Streamed Live

Scott — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:01:28 +0000

Repost from Cavalera Conspiracy Myspace

CAVALERA CONSPIRACY’S concert at Docks in Hamburg, Germany will be streamed live for free on Monday, June 23rd at 9:30pm Germany time – 3:30pm US East Coast time – 12:30pm US West Coast time at www.Ligx.de

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Cavalera Conspiracy Play Classic Sepultura And Nailbomb Tunes, Video

Scott — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:49:57 +0000

Fan filmed footage of Cavalera Conspiracy playing some classic Sepultura and Nailbomb songs has been uploaded on Youtube.com by use Egobrain22. Pretty cool to see the Cavalera brothers playing the classics live. Below is video of them performing Arise and Dead Embryonic Cells. You can see the rest of the videos uploaded here by egobrain22.

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Win A Meet And Greet With Cavalera Conspiracy

Scott — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:10:16 +0000

If you didn’t already know, Cavalera Conspiracy is embarking on a North America tour titled “Infliktour“. Along for the ride is Dillinger Escape plan, Throwdown, Bury Your Dead, and Incite. Soulflyweb.com is holding a contest where you can win ameet and greet with Max and Igor Cavalera at a show near you. This is what you have to do….they make you work for it, damn-it!

To participate, contestants must print off flyers for the show that they wish to attend and use them to promote the old-fashioned way. Contestants should post the flyers all over their city – staple them in buildings and on poles, pass them out after shows and to your friends, tape them on top of other signs, and do the best job at getting the word out in general. Do whatever it takes, because the person who does the most creative/best job for each gig will be selected to win!

But wait…before you go running off, plastering your own flyers all around town there are a few more details you need to read about at Soulflyweb.com

Image Source: Soulfly.Web Cavalera Contest Flyer

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Soulfly 3

Scott — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:30:32 +0000

I picked Soulfly 3 up yesterday at the same record store that bought the xDEATHSTARx at. I think it’s quite clear that the selections there were few and far between. Anyway, I was hoping it would be cool since I haven’t bought any Soulfly records since their first. All I have to say is…ok. It’s a rather strange album to say the least. one track 9-11-01 is nothing but 32 seconds of silence. Guess it was a clever way have taking a moment of silence for 9-11. The rest of the album is kind of strange as well. I’m not really impressed. It was either Soulfly 3 or Primative. Anyone have any suggestions or comments about Primative or is that as big of a waste as 3?

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Soulfly Artwork and Tracklisting For “Conquer” Revealed

Scott — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:24:28 +0000

1.Blood Fire War Hate
2.Unleash
3.Paranoia
4.Warmageddon
5.Enemy Ghost
6.Rough
7.Fall Of The Sycophanta
8.Doom
9.Rot
10.Touching The Void
11.Soulfly VI

Image Source: Roadrunner Records

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Cavalera Conspiracy Tickets Go On Sale Tomorrow!

Scott — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:29:01 +0000

Myspace Repost:

Beginning tomorrow at noon, tickets for Cavalera Conspiracy’s inflikTOUR of North America will be available for presale before the tickets go on sale to the general public. As we indicated in a previous post here, the select shows for this tour may be the band’s ONLY performances in the North America in support of Inflikted.

Also, more dates for the midwest and west coast have been added to the tour. Below are current dates.

July 17th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Electric Factory
July 18th in Worcester, Massachusetts at the Palladium
July 19th in New York, New York at the Fillmore
July 20th in New York, New York at the Fillmore
July 21st in Baltimore, Maryland at Rams Head Live
July 23rd in Chicago, Illinois at the Vic Theatre
July 25th in Toronto, Ontario at Wakefest
July 26th in Calgary, Alberta at Monsters of Rock
July 27th in Maplewood, Minnesota at the Myth
August 3rd in Anaheim, California at the House of Blues

Preorder Tickets to InflikTOUR

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