This Tuesday, we deal with Max Cavalera (once again). And yes, anything to put in the post title with Max would make it sound too cheesy. Max Bomb. Max Volume. Max Trivia. See? So I just left it Max.
No, we’re not counting how many words and words combinations he used in all the songs he made in his long career (15, if you’re really interested, and that includes aargh and uuurgh), nor will be counting how many children and step-children he’s had as guest artists on his various projects (I couldn’t be bothered to count that one).
No, we deal with a different Max today. Read on.
The Max Cavalera we deal with today comes before the time he made nu metal albums with Sepultura and Soufly, before he was down with Fred Durst and Corey Taylor, and when he had some “fuck you” attitude left in him.
So, I introduce you… Nailbomb. Okay, I know, you’re a metalhead and you know about Nailbomb. Well, I’ve known about sex for ages, but I still don’t get any. So… I might have missed my point back there, but think about the little ones, and let me finish. The children that just listened to the last Soulfly albums and wanted to shoot their brains out of boredom. Maybe this text saves a life.
Nailbomb was a groovy, thrashy industrial metal project Max started with Alex Newport of Fudge Tunnel, and they included a lot of musicians to make their only album, Point Blank (released in 1994), from (then) fellow band members from Sepultura, to Dino Cazares. So, what’s so special about it? Well, not terribly much. It’s a good album, and if it had slightly better production, could have been awesome. But Max had other plans.
And since this is trivia, I can mention that they also had another album (consistency fail), Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide, which was a recording of their one and only live performance at Netherland’s Dynamo Open Air Festivan in 1995.
You might be wondering, why is it time to be reminiscing about this in 2011? Well, Max and The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Puciato have announced they’ll be working on a project together, which would be “similar in spirit” to Nailbomb. I’m not getting my hopes up, but having listened to the new Cavalera Conspiracy song, maybe a foray into something other than exactly the same thing he’s been doing over and over again for the past 7 years would be good for Max. And us.
