I wonder what the Cavaleras think of this?
Sepultura have a new album coming… yawn… excuse me… Sepultura have a new… oh, who gives a shit?
-AR
[via Blabbermouth]
The below video, of a dance group called Spiritwo covering Sepultura’s “Inner Self,” was posted on Blabbermouth over the weekend. Now, I don’t wanna come off as one of those overzealous/undereducated Pantera fans who gets sand in his vagina just because Fall Out Boy covered “Walk” or Madonna played two bars of “A New Level” or MetalSucks points out that Phil Anselmo is a racist, but, seriously, the world’s Sepultura fans should all get together, track the lead singer of this band down, and cut her (and while you’re at it, do something about that fuckhead in the white dress). I mean, I’ve seen knife fights break out over the whole Max Cavalera versus Derrick Green thing, so this shit should definitely be cause for some neanderthal violence.
After the jump, wash the taste of piss, shit and cum out of your mouth by watching the actual video for the actual Sepultura performing the actual “Inner Self.”
MetalSucks Maniac Zac Clarkson correctly identified last week’s logo as Short Bus Pile Up. I mean, LOTS of you correctly identfied last week’s logo as Short Bus Pile Up, since it was one of the easiest logos we’ve ever done, but Zac got picked in the random drawing of all potential winners, so he wins a super-duper deluxe double disc edition of Soulfly’s, um, Soulfly. Rock out with your cock out, Zac.
This week we’re giving away a nifty single-CD with two albums on it, Sepultura’s post-Max Cavalera releases Against and Nation, courtesy the extremely attractive men and women at Roadrunner Records. You might think a Max-less Sep isn’t worth your time, but I think that poor Derrick Green takes too much shit. I mean, c’mon. It’s not his fault that he wasn’t born Brazilian.
ANYWAY, all you have to do to win is identify the name of the band whose logo appears below, then shoot me an e-mail with your answer, your name and address at axl [at] metalsucks.net. We’ll randomly select one winner from everyone who gets it right, and announce their name next Monday.
Good luck, honkies. It’s a hard one this week.
-AR
Well, well, well.. at least one person thought Apocalypto was a good movie, and his name is Max Cavalera.
The below, Gibson-esque video is for “Unleash,” the new single from Cavalera’s Soulfly, which will be the former Sepultura main man’s second release this year, after Cavalera Conspiracy’s Inflikted. It features guest vocals by Pantera’s Phil Anselmo Throwdown’s Dave Peters, and while I think it’s an okay song, it lacks that Sepultura-ness that made Inflikted such a nice surprise.
Check out the video and then weigh in in our comments section. Soulfly’s new album, Conquer, drops July 29 on Roadrunner.
-AR
Is the world ready for a new Soulfly album? It seems like Cavalera Conspiracy’s Inflikted just dropped, and it turned out to be so killer, I don’t see any reason Max Cavalera couldn’t just chill for a beat before giving the world its next dose of Cavalera Lovin’.
Max isn’t just gonna chill for a beat, though; he’s the kinda guy who thinks metal is like Chinese food, so he’ll release Conquer, Soulfly’s latest, on July 29 via Roadrunner. I’ve heard at least one insider say that it’s superior to Inflikted – but that person also thinks that Cavalera Conspiracy sounds too much like old Sepultura, which is exactly why I like it so much. So take that for what you will.
ANYWAY, here’s Soulfly performing a new song, “I and I,” “Blood Fire War Hate,” [My bust - AR] at the XIII Festival Arte-Nativo Viña Rock 2008 festival earlier this month in Spain. It sounds pretty fuckin’ heavy… but I’ll reserve final judgement for when I hear the proper studio version.
-AR
[via Blabbermouth]
Well, this is fucktarded.
Sepultura have announced a new contest, “Be A Part Of The Next Sepultura Record.” Said contest will allow fans to submit a single sentence or catch phrase related to Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange – the basis for the band’s new album – and the winning phrase or sentence will be used for a song that the band will write and record in 24 hours and then include on their forthcoming album.
First of all, I just think the whole idea of this contest is idiotic to begin with. But for argument’s sake, let’s pretend that it is, in fact, neat-o to be able to name a Sep song or supply Derrick Green with a lyric or whatever. Why is the band limiting themselves to 24 hours to create this song? What if it takes 36 hours to write something decent? Wouldn’t it be better not to set such a strict time limit if it makes the difference between having a shitty track and a decent one on their new album? Unless the band is cheating and already has a song written and is just searching for the perfect phrase to insert into their lyrics. But that would make this contest a sham, and Sepultura would never manipulate their fans that way… right?
ANYWAY, my entry is “A Bit of the Old In n’ Out Burger.” Now that’s a fuckin’ winner right there.
-AR
Blabbermouth tipped us off to the below footage of Sepultura rehearsing a new song for their upcoming album, which is apparently a concept album based on Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange (which was – duh – also the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s controversial classic film). This new album should provoke a lot of interest (if not record sales), ’cause it’s the first Sep album ever to feature neither of the Cavalera brothers.
So will it be any good? The riff in the video is okay, even if it doesn’t exactly knock my socks off. But the band’s last album, Dante XXI, was good enough that I’m curious to hear what Andreas Kisser and the fellas come up with.
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So… what do y’all think? Let’s get some premature judgements up in here!
-AR
Infliked, the new album by Cavalera Conspiracy, may have turned out to be a pleasantly awesome surprise (read our review here), but the band’s video for first single “Sanctuary” is, alas, not nearly as cool.
The concept isn’t bad: at a photo shoot for the band, a 28 Days Later-style monster goes on the rampage and kills pretty much everyone in the room (save for the band, who, I suppose, are saved by the sheer power of their rocking). The clip is even filmed in lo-fi video to give it some sense of “realism.”
Unfortunately, it’s also shot in first-person shakey cam, a la The Blair Witch Project and the more recent Cloverfield, a.k.a. The Blair Monster Project. The result is that you can’t really see anything, and I don’t mean in a Jaws being-suggestive-is-more-scary-than-being-gory kind way; I mean, really, you can’t see very much.
So, y’know, that blows.
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-AR
Is this some kind of hoax to promote the new Cavalera Conspiracy album? We seriously can’t decide whether this shatters Igor Cavalera’s metal cred or ups it to the Nth power.
-VN
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I’m really, really impressed with Inflikted, the debut (if you don’t count Sepultura) album from Cavalera Conspiracy.
Unfortunately, the new cover art for the album sucks even worse than the old cover art:
Okay, remember when Sepultura used to have freaky, scary, horrific, bad ass metal cover art? So why the fuck does this album have some modern-art Devo shit? It’s a good thing the album is actually good…
Thanks to MetalSucks reader Morizz for the tip!
-AR
Since so many of you see to be as pleasantly surprised as we are that those two Cavalera Conspiracy songs that surfaced earlier this week are actually good, we’re pleased to announce that the entire album has now leaked online. And, believe it or not, those songs were just foreshadowing; in other words, the entire album is really, really good. Head over to Kill the Musica to get the album. Enjoy it, and have a good weekend…
-AR
I’m feeling ready to be not so cynical about the Cavalera Conspiracy, the new Sepultura semi-reunion between brothers Max and Igor Cavalera (Soulfly’s Marc Rizzo and Gojira’s Joe Duplantier round out the line-up on guitar and bass, respectively). And why, pray tell, am I feeling so generous towards the band these days? Well, it’s cause these just released tracks, “Sanctuary” and “Inflikted” actually sound more or less exactly the way I wanted them to, which is to say: they sound an awful lot like good ol’ school Sepultura. Yes, it seems that the shitty band name, cheap album art, deliberate “hip” misspellings and other general shenanigans were bad omens not to be taken seriously… although I suppose the complete album could still totally suck.
Download the tracks below and let us know what you think.
The Cavalera Conspiracy – “Sanctuary”
The Cavalera Conspiracy – “Inflikted”
-AR
As you probably well know by now, the brothers Cavalera of the legendary Sepultura have a new album coming out under the Cavalera Conspiracy moniker, featuring Max and Igor alongside Marc Rizzo (who played with Max in Soulfly) and Joe Duplantier (Gojira).
The album, called Inflikted, comes out on March 25 — but Mr. Arf has a lo-fi but listenable leak of the new song “Sanctuary.”
As you enjoy this track, channel the spirit of Martin Luther King on this fine holiday.
-VN
[Thanks to MetalSucks reader "UT2010" for the tip]
I suppose I have no real reason to feel so cynical about the music that the reunited Cavalera brothers will make together; in 2005, Max Cavalera released Dark Ages, arguably the best Soulfly album to date, while Igor Cavalera and his band mates put out what is arguably the best Max-less Sepultura album, Dante XXI, just a year later. And they both made albums of such quality by introducing elements of older Sep back into music that become far too diluted with the “legacy” of the over-rated Roots, even if they’ve never abandoned that album’s musical “advances” altogether. In other words, it would seem that both Max and Igor have their heads in the right place, creatively speaking, and if ever a Sepultura semi-reunion was going to (needlessly?) produce new music, now would be the time.
Still, I was hoping that the band would come up with a better name than Cavalera Conspiracy, and a better album title than Inflikted. Not so, says Blabbermouth, who exclusively announced the album’s track list yesterday.
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