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Former Sepultura guitarist and vocalist Max Cavalera was asked in a recent interview with Poland’s Mystic Festival what it was like to perform the band’s iconic fifth album, “Chaos A.D.” (1993), in its entirety with his brother, former Sepultura drummer Iggor Cavalera, during recent tours of North America and Europe, as per Blabbermouth.
I think it’s the best feeling because we love the material. We pay tribute to the era. There’s a whole new generation of fans, they never got the chance to see the original [lineup] playing that. And the band is so killer because you have me and Igor being the older guys, and you have Travis [Stone on lead guitar] and my son, Igor [Amadeus Cavalera on bass], the young guns. They bring the youth, they bring the energy. When I look at my sides, they’re going fucking nuts, because they love this record.
Max stated this while thinking back on the songwriting process for “Chaos A.D.”
t’s quite different from the predecessor, [1991’s] ‘Arise’. And I remember a lot of people would question, ‘Are they gonna do ‘Arise Part II’, or are they gonna try to do something different?’ And we opted for the second [option]. I love ‘Arise’, but it’s difficult to top that. Between the three of them — [1987’s] ‘Schizophrenia’, [1989’s] ‘Beneath The Remains’ and ‘Arise’ — it’s a trilogy of nearly perfect death-thrash records. [It’s] hard to top that. So we went on a different road; [we wanted to] slow everything down, strip down, and try to make more — I don’t know — solid kind of songs. It’s a strange record to me also, because there’s a lot of semi-instrumentals-type song, like ‘We Who Are Not As Others’, ‘Kaiowas’. We have a cover in the middle, a New Model Army cover, which is great. ‘The Hunt’ is a bit like — we love New Model Army, and we thought, ‘Fuck it. Let’s put it on the record.’ It’s the kind of thing that we did. No rules.
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