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“If it wasn’t working, I could see the point of changing. But we were more successful than ever. It was incomprehensible”: The tumultuous story of Sepultura’s Roots album and their bitter split

How Sepultura made their most important album – and how it tore them apart

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“The seven deadly sins were invented by the church. They weren’t invented by God so I don’t give them too much credence“: How Max Cavalera came through his personal dark ages to make Soulfly’s Omen album

Quitting? That’s not Max Cavalera’s style

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“It's really very disrespectful... the artistic value is zero.” Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser blasts his former bandmates Max and Iggor Cavalera for their decision to re-record the Brazilian band's early albums

Max and Iggor Cavalera's re-recordings of Sepultura's Bestial Devastation EP, Morbid Visions and Schizophrenia aren't appreciated by guitarist Andreas Kisser

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"Thirty years after Cop Killer, Ice-T is still committed to making music that goes harder than the rest." From THAT Pink Floyd cover to collabs with Corpsegrinder, Max Cavalera and more, new Body Count album Merciless is an ice-cold knock-out

Body Count only seem to improve with age courtesy of their heaviest album yet

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Bloodstock announces 13 bands - including an ultra-rare performance from Max Cavalera's Nailbomb - for 2025 and weekend tickets sell out

August's Bloodstock line-up just got even bigger with the likes of Ministry, Nailbomb and Fear Factory joining the bill

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“If you told teenage me, ‘One day Ozzy will tell you to keep making music,’ I’d have slapped you!” Ozzy Osbourne encouraged Max Cavalera to carry on after leaving Sepultura

Max Cavalera entered a six-month depression after quitting Sepultura in 1996, and he credits his wife and The Prince Of Darkness with lifting him back up

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“I’m like, ‘I don’t know, man! I’m in Arizona!’” In 1993, Kurt Cobain asked Sepultura man Max Cavalera where to get heroin in Brazil

When trying to score drugs at a South American festival, Nirvana’s leader turned to what he believed to be a local expert

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“It’s definitely out of the question. It's not gonna happen”: Two weeks ago, a Sepultura reunion looked likely – but now Max Cavalera has changed his mind

Having already buried the hatchet with his brother, Igor, Cavalera says there’s no longer any need for a classic-era Sepultura return

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"People are so misinformed": Sepultura is the one metal reunion that hasn't happened but Max Cavalera seems to now have the final word on the matter

"It was a lot of betrayal and a lot of stuff that people don't know about"

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Max Cavalera isn’t open to a classic Sepultura reunion anymore: “The more the time passes by, the more I feel that I don’t need to”

Despite claiming he was open to a Roots-era reunion just two weeks ago, Sepultura’s former frontman has now said he doesn’t feel the need

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“It reminds me of the days when I used to put on punk rock shows and I’d get my friends to come”: the story of Dave Grohl and Corey Taylor’s forgotten punk-metal supergroup Teenage Time Killers

Formed by members of Corrosion Of Conformity and My Ruin, Teenage Time Killers were the ultimate 2010s punk-metal supergroup

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Sepultura's Andreas Kisser would be open to doing one final show with Max and Iggor Cavalera: "it would be amazing"

Could we see Sepultura's farewell end with an original lineup show?

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9 heavy metal stars who made it big with their first band

From Lars Ulrich to Lzzy Hale, these are the rare metal musicians who hit the big time on their very first go

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"The Superstition tour is heading your way." Soulfly announce summer tour of the UK and Europe

Max Cavalera is bringing Soulfly back to Europe in July/August

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“I narrowed it down to the bare essentials and found that three strings were all I needed”: 10 guitarists who played with missing strings on purpose… and the weird reasons why

Forget six strings: for some guitarists, all you need is one…

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“I didn’t want my children to grow up and not know Max”: how Max and Iggor Cavalera healed their wounds and buried the ghost of Sepultura with Cavalera Conspiracy

Cavalera Conspiracy’s debut album was released on March 24, 2008. In this classic interview, Max and Iggor explained how they put their acrimonious split behind them and forged a new future

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“I met Ritchie Blackmore during the Sepultura days. At first, he wasn’t interested in talking to anybody. But the minute I asked, ‘Do you like football?’ he said, ‘Yes – come with me!’” Max Cavalera names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound

The metal pioneer reveals how to score private time with Ritchie Blackmore, the reality of trying to cover Tony Iommi, what Chuck Shuldiner would be doing today – and why he’s finally playing all six strings… on a James Hetfield guitar

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“At the time, we had a lot of anger, a lot of depression, the world was crazy. That song reflected what we were thinking.” How Sepultura's Refuse/Resist captured the mood of a world in turmoil - and put South American metal on the map

Sepultura were already considered one of the most exciting bands in 90s metal. They just needed a song to take them to the next level

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4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month

From Newcastle nu-metalcore bruisers Creak to Asinhell, the death metal project from Volbeat's frontman, Cavalera-endorsed death metallers Celestial Sanctuary and New England industrial doomsters Body Void, these are the bands you need to hear in January 2024

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Sepultura should go down as one of the bravest musical forces in metal – no matter which era of the band you look at

Sepultura were one of metal’s most celebrated names. Then, once frontman Max Cavalera left, they became one of its most underrated

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The 11 most amazing onstage team-ups in heavy metal history

Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne. Trivium and Slipknot. The entire Big Four. These are the most excellent onstage collaborations we’ve ever seen.

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10 times massive metal bands appeared in video games

Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk and even Grand Theft Auto have all featured some of heavy metal’s most famous musicians

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The 10 greatest guest spots in heavy metal history

From Bruce Dickinson teaming with Rob Halford to Dave Grohl’s Probot album, here are the times big names made great metal songs even greater

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‘Our drummer used human tibia bones’: the hellish birth of Brazil’s heavy metal scene

Responding to police brutality, hard labour and the threat of nuclear war, members of Sepultura, Holocausto and more explain their decidedly anti-tropical music

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"It was a magical and very inspiring time.” Max Cavalera reveals his favourite Sepultura album, whether he'd ever reunite with the band

The Cavalera brothers respond to whether they'd ever consider being part of a classic era Sepultura reunion - and Max picks his favourite Seps record

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