In a new chat with Australia’s Heavy, Max Cavalera responded to Andreas Kisser’s ‘no artistic value’ criticism of Sepultura re-recordings.
“[It was] kind of like a chance to do it again, but do it better, kind of not really fix the mistakes, ’cause I think the mistakes were kind of cool, but make the stuff sound better,” the musician said when asked why he and his brother, Igor Cavalera, decided to re-record their early Sepultura albums, ‘Morbid Visions’ and ‘Bestial Devastation.’ They also re-recorded Kisser’s first album with Sepultura, ‘Schizophrenia.’
He continued, “We had a chance to have better guitar, better drum sound, a better studio, surrounded by knowledgeable metal people that know how to record this stuff. None of those things were available when we made those records in Brazil. We were on our own. The engineers didn’t know what to do, and it was like no man’s land making these records in Brazil.”
“So we had a chance to redo them and redo them the way we envisioned them to sound. So the re-recordings is the way we, as musicians, think they should sound like, the re recordings — that’s the proper way that we envisioned those songs,” Cavalera explained.
The rocker then shared, “Even as kids, we were hoping to get the sound that we got on the re-recordings; this is what we were shooting for in the first place. So it’s really cool that we get the chance to do that. A lot of bands don’t have the chance, don’t try it or they try and they fail. They don’t keep the energy and the anger of the original.”
“We kept all that in check. We made sure it stays pissed. It’s full of piss and vinegar all the way through. So I think that’s why a lot of people love the re-recordings, man. The fans fricking love the re-recordings, and it’s really well received around the world,” Max further said of the re-recordings.
In November, Kisser told IMPACT Metal Channel that he doesn’t understand why Max and Igor re-recorded Sepultura’s early albums. He called it a strange and unnecessary choice. He thinks the re-recordings have no artistic value and believes they may be doing it for money.
