In a brand new interview with Australia’s The Rockpit, Max Cavalera spoke about his determination to revive his NAILBOMB mission for a November 9, 2024 efficiency on the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, Arizona as a part of the SOULFLY-headlined “Max Cavalera Dynasty Present”. In October, it was introduced that NAILBOMB may also carry out at this 12 months’s Alcatraz pageant in Kortrijk, Belgium and on the Bloodstock Open Air pageant at Catton Park in Derbyshire, United Kingdom.
NAILBOMB‘s lone studio album, 1994’s “Level Clean”. “Level Clean” noticed the then-SEPULTURA frontman group up with FUDGE TUNNEL‘s Alex Newport for a dense, industrialized providing that included quite a lot of samples and punk rock influences.
Relating to the choice to convey NAILBOMB again, Max mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “NAILBOMB form of got here out of nowhere. We realized that that is 30 years since ‘Level Clean’ got here out, and it got here out the identical 12 months as [SEPULTURA‘s] ‘Chaos A.D.’ So we thought we might form of rejoice additionally that, as a result of that NAILBOMB file could be very particular for me. It taught me so much. It taught me about [how to] be extra free within the studio, be much less fearful, experiment with totally different sounds and sonic concepts and never be afraid of expertise and industrial parts, [and] truly mix all that. So I carry that NAILBOMB file actual near my coronary heart in some ways. It is a very, very cool file that it has aged very properly too. When you put the file on proper now, it sounds wonderful immediately because it did [back then]. And the matters are so related proper now — ‘World Of Shit’ and ‘Non secular Most cancers’ and ’24 Hour Bullshit’. It is now, man. It is what the world is at proper now. It is loopy that it is extra related now than after we made the file. So we’re gonna work a bit bit touring some festivals in Europe with NAILBOMB.”
Cavalera went on to say that “Level Clean” is “positively one among my favourite albums that I used to be a part of. And, yeah, it is cool that in my profession, I get to do this stuff. To me, it is actually cool. ‘Trigger I get to make new music with SOULFLY and KILLER BE KILLED and GO AHEAD AND DIE, which I’ll do extra music with them. However I additionally get to rejoice a few of my previous stuff as properly. I do not neglect about these both, ‘trigger these are very particular. So it is cool. I get to essentially take pleasure in all of the inventive forces in my life and put them into motion. As a substitute of simply them as one thing that simply occurred up to now and does not occur anymore, I get to truly do issues with them that makes it thrilling to be a musician.”
NAILBOMB‘s lineup for the “Max Cavalera Dynasty Present” included three guitarists, Max, Max‘s son Igor Amadeus Cavalera and Travis Stone. The three beforehand took half within the CAVALERA “Third World Trilogy” tour in Europe. Travis can be the guitarist of PIG DESTROYER. Johny Chow, previously of STONE SOUR, FIREBALL MINISTRY and CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, dealt with the bass duties for NAILBOMB. Alex Cha, of PIG DESTROYER, was on sampler and Adam Jarvis, of MISERY INDEX and PIG DESTROYER, bashed the drums.
The sonic love little one of Max and Newport, this 1994 one-off album from their NAILBOMB union showcased dense, industrialized heaviness, seething with all-out punk aggression. In 13 tracks, the revered duo — crediting SEPULTURA alumni Andreas Kisser and Igor Cavalera, in addition to FEAR FACTORY‘s Dino Cazares as gamers on the ultimate product — managed to make an offended masterpiece that meets in the course of what each SEPULTURA and FUDGE TUNNEL have been doing on the time. However as for the visible illustration of “Level Clean”, the war-time photograph of a Viet Cong lady with a gun to her head proves simply as putting because the devastatingly heavy music inside its sleeve.
Max instructed TeamRock in 2016 about “Level Clean”: “It is simply such a pissed off album. Me and Alex have been pissed at every thing and determined to make an actual fuck-the-world ‘hate mission.’ It is likely one of the most ‘fuck-you’ albums of all time; it goals at every thing, and destroys every thing. So, that’d be cool — to be remembered as an individual who got here right here to fuck shit up, NAILBOMB‘s excellent!”
Max beforehand talked about NAILBOMB final November in an interview with Sense Music Media. He mentioned on the time: “I like that file a lot. I feel ‘Level Clean’ is by far one among my favourite information of all time. It was only a blast to make it. After all we actually did not take care of something. We simply needed to make a brutal, pissed off file full of commercial sounds and samplers and riffage. And it is loopy that NAILBOMB is 30 years previous subsequent 12 months, and we’re truly gonna come and do some festivals in Europe in the summertime. It is nice. I find it irresistible. I feel it is a kind of information that will be a disgrace to not play dwell as a result of it is so good. I do not really feel the need to re-record the NAILBOMB file, however I really feel that dwell it must be performed. Individuals want to listen to NAILBOMB.”
Touching upon the musical and lyrical relevance of the NAILBOMB effort, Max mentioned: “In a bizarre means, ‘Level Clean’ was nearly prophetic. The stuff we have been singing about is what’s taking place proper now on this planet, sadly. You have acquired stuff like ’24 Hour Bullshit’ with media. You might have ‘Sick Life’ with the drug drawback. You might have ‘Guerrillas’ with the struggle within the Ukraine. Even the refrain of ‘Guerrillas’, it is eerie: ‘Away from dwelling, be taught to hate, die for the land, fucking waste.’ I feel that is how these Russian youngsters should really feel like proper now going to Ukraine. Yeah, it is a prophetic album that’s truly extra related now than when it first got here out. It is loopy.”
