Max Cavalera

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Sepultura posing for a photograph in 1996
The tumultuous story of Sepultura’s Roots album and their bitter split

By Dave Everley Published

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

Bands & Artists
Max Cavalera Promo 2021
How Max Cavalera became a global metal icon

By Joe Daly Published

From losing his father at an early age to transforming metal with Sepultura and Soulfly, Max Cavalera looks back on a life on the front lines of metal

Biographies
Max Cavalera posing for a photograph
Soulfly frontman Max Cavalera names the greatest riff in heavy metal – and the controversial 80s album he thinks is a “joke”

By Stephen Hill Published

The soundtrack to ex-Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera’s life

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Bands & Artists
Massive Attack and the Cavalera brothers
Massive Attack team up with Sepultura’s Max and Iggor Cavalera for special South American show

By Niall Doherty Published

The trip-hop trailblazers will perform Sepultura's classic Chaos A.D. with the pair to shine a light on the plight of the indigenous people of Brazil

Bands & Artists
Max Cavalera on stage screaming
One big thing stopped Nailbomb's first UK show being a classic

By Stephen Hill Published

Max Cavalera's Nailbomb show why they're so revered in the metal scene, even if sound gremlins scupper their momentum

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Live Performances
One of metal’s greatest cult bands have returned after 30 years – but what are the chances of a new album?

By Metal Hammer Published

Max Cavalera: “If it was all up to me, I’d love to do it”

Interviews
Max Cavalera performs live on stage at the Metropol on November 26, 2023 in Berlin, Germany.
"Metal is the most positive thing in the world". Max Cavalera tells it like it is

By Stef Lach Published

Sepultura founder and Soulfly star Max Cavalera thinks metal is the greatest – and who are we to argue?

Bands & Artists
Max Cavalera, Sepultura
Max Cavalera isn't getting sentimental over the end of Sepultura

By Paul Brannigan Published

"I don't have nothing to do with what they're doing, with the disbanding of the band."

Bands & Artists
Soulfly posing for a photograph in 2010
How Max Cavalera came through his personal dark ages to make Soulfly’s Omen album

By John Doran Published

Quitting? That’s not Max Cavalera’s style

Albums
Sepultura in 1996
Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser says that Max and Iggor Cavalera's re-recordings of the band's early albums have “zero artistic value”

By Paul Brannigan Published

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

Interviews
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