Max Cavalera sat down with the Everblack podcast and talked about re-recording the Sepultura albums and how it came about.
When asked if he was hesitant about re-recording the albums, the rocker responded, “I think instead of being hesitant I was actually curious, because as much as I love those records they have the charm on their own. It’s the era, it’s the period.”
“But as a musician you wonder what would they sound like with a real sound. You get to hear those riffs. You don’t hear the riffs on the original,” he continued. “When you’re playing it, it sounds messy, there’s no definition on the guitar.”
“I think the way we approach it was really cool too because I think what we did was me and Igor [Cavalera] just did the thing the way we always do our whole life. I put a mic in the middle of the room, I got my guitar and Igor is right in front of me, and like one two three go live. That’s the brother magic right there. We didn’t break that and I think that’s in the center of the recordings,” the rocker added.
Max and Igor Cavalera re-recorded Sepultura’s early albums, ‘Morbid Visions’ and ‘Bestial Devastation,’ and released them in May this year. Cavalera’s recent comments came after Andreas Kisser shared his thoughts about the album.
“I mean, it’s a weird choice that they had. I think artistic value is zero,” Kisser said in a chat with IMPACT Metal Channel. “Maybe they’re going for some money or something, but there’s no reason to do something like that. I much rather prefer The Troops Of Doom, the new band from Jairo [former Sepultura guitarist Jairo ‘Tormentor’ Guedz], which are doing a really amazing tribute to that era, very honest, doing new stuff, writing new music… But if they’re having a good time, so let it be. I don’t care, man. I just think it’s totally unnecessary. It’s really very disrespectful from themselves, for their own selves in the past.”
Kisser didn’t hold back and questioned the reasons behind the Cavalera brothers’ decision. “It’s weird to see a guy [Max] who always says, ‘Oh, I did this,’ ‘I did all that,’ ‘I’m so creative,’ and ‘I did everything by myself,’ and doing this shit, like re-recording riffs that we did 30, 40 years ago. It doesn’t click, the rhetoric with the example. But whatever. I just don’t think that — the artistic value is zero.”
Contrary to his earlier comments, Kisser had previously shared his desire for the Cavalera brothers to jam with Sepultura before they retire for good.
While Sepultura recently finished their Brazilian farewell tour, Max and Iggor Cavalera have announced a U.S. leg of their ‘Third World Trilogy’ tour. Their band Cavalera will perform material from the first three Sepultura albums: 1985’s ‘Bestial Devastation,’ 1986’s ‘Morbid Visions,’ and 1987’s ‘Schizophrenia.’ Joining them on the tour will be Necrot and Dead Heat.
