Max Cavalera

“My only regret is maybe with Nailbomb. And it's that we didn't do more. Because that project had the capacity to offer a lot more.”

“I wanted to be a drummer but my brother Iggor was better at it, so I took up guitar instead.”

“Unfortunately, I think metal bands don't have too much to say in their lyrics, and never care about it. We just decided not to be like that.”

“First and foremost: I'm a metal fan. I'm a musician, an artist, but I'm a complete fan and I've never grown out of the complete fan faze I had when I was 13 or 14 - that's always stayed with me. I'm always trying to discover new bands.”

“I don't know if people know this, but I kind of got Fear Factory signed with Roadrunner. I really bugged Monte Conner back in the day when I heard the demo that had 'Big God' on it.”

“There were bands like Iron Maiden, but we wanted it heavier. We wanted to go radical, we wanted to go extreme.”

“When we released 'Chaos A.D' it was really hard for a metal artist to survive. Everything was grunge. Everywhere you looked was grunge.”

“I always wanted to do a song with a violin; I always loved the sound of the instrument, especially for melodic stuff.”

“We're not an American band, or a European band. We're a Brazilian band.”

“There must be something wrong with me, something wrong with my head.”

“My dad had a guitar but it was acoustic, so I smashed a mirror and glued broken glass to it to make it look more metal. It looked ridiculous!”

“To me, if I retire tomorrow, what the hell am I gonna do? Sit around the house and do nothing? I would drive everybody crazy, including myself. I would go nuts - literally, I would go insane.”

“Music is such a big landscape. There's so much we can do with it. It's endless. That's what the cool thing about it is.”

“A lot of times I like to listen to albums between midnight and three in the morning - it's my favorite listening hours. I get to sit at my bed, put my headphones on and just let the music consume me.”

“Sepultura had a political album like Chaos A.D. that concerned itself with politics and war. I continued that in some areas with Soulfly.”

“I think 'Roots' is a courageous record with some really cool stuff in it.”

“I'm very proud of 'Arise.'”

“I started to listen to music in '80 or '81, bands like Queen or Kiss. Then in '83, when I first got into Slayer and Venom and stuff like that, they just blew my mind.”

“Guerillas' uses a snippet of 'Procreation of the Wicked' by Celtic Frost because I always loved that song.”

“We used to joke that we were more scared of the police than we were of the devil. You had to have I.D. with you all the time or else the police would throw you in jail. I got thrown in jail twice for not having I.D., and walking in there was like walking through the gates of hell.”