THE SLAYLIST
MAX CAVALERA
Fresh from unleashing his killer new band Go Ahead And Die, the Soulfly mainman is eager to share his choice cuts
WORDS: DOM LAWSON
“THE METAL UNDERGROUND is an exciting place – I always want to shout about cool new bands. New music is the most exciting thing. It keeps me young at heart, too. I don’t want to grow old and turn into an old fart that only listens to stuff from the 80s. Don’t get me wrong, I love Celtic Frost and Possessed, but there’s great stuff happening now too.
I was recording the new Soulfly album and Arthur Rizk was the producer. He’s heavily involved with the underground and he showed me Lesions Of A Different Kind by UNDEATH. They’ve got those killer catchy riffs and that groove. That’s my beef with some extreme metal sometimes – it loses the groove. But Undeath have that and it makes death metal much more fun to listen to. My taste goes towards that caveman, 90s death metal vibe. Zach [Coleman], the drummer from Go Ahead And Die [Max’s latest project], was the one who showed me UNDERGANG. Efter Obduktionen is so fucking catchy and it hooks you right from the beginning. They have some crazy, brutal vocals too.