It was amazing because I had a huge record collection of everything from Dead Kennedys to Discharge and we sampled all of it and turned the samples into really interesting sounds. So we borrowed some money from Gloria and bought a sampler and Alex got really good at it in a couple days. Alex really loved Big Black and other Steve Albini stuff. I was more into Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Front Line Assembly and Treponem Pal, as well as some weird shit like Einstürzende Neubauten. Alex always suggested that we use samplers. HOW DID YOU END UP MAKING SUCH A HATEFUL ALBUM EQUALLY INFLUENCED BY HELMET, GODFLESH AND MINISTRY? YOU CAME FROM A THRASH BACKGROUND AND ALEX WAS A SLUDGE/NOISE GUY. We were just killing time and it was Gloria's idea for us to make an album. You need to make a record." And that was pretty much it. I can get you guys a record deal with Roadrunner. We're just messing around." And she said, "No, seriously, this is really good stuff. She said, "I'm going to make a band out of you guys," and we laughed and said, "Oh, no way. We kept playing and came up with some new stuff, and then Gloria came into the room and started listening to us. He told me all the Fudge Tunnel stuff was Black Sabbath riffs played backwards or slowed down, which I thought was crazy. And then he showed me some really cool riffs. MAX CAVALERA I just pulled out a bunch of riffs I had written that were not going anywhere since Sepultura had already done Chaos A.D. IT'S SURPRISING TO LEARN THAT NAILBOMB FORMED ALMOST BY ACCIDENT. POINT BLANK IS SUCH A DIRECT, PUMMELING ALBUM THAT DOESN'T WASTE A NOTE. Hate" and what happened to the Vietnamese woman being held at gunpoint on the album cover. We didn't have any plan to make a record."īut the jam sessions soon evolved into the duo writing original songs, which would eventually make up the 13 tracks included on Point Blank - a cult record that stands the test of time and sounds as good today as it did in 1994.įour days before the launch of the Point Blank Soulfly tour, Cavalera talked to Revolver about his original musical and political goals for Nailbomb, why he nicknamed Newport "Mr. "And Alex asked me if I could show him how to play the really fast thrash riffs from albums like Arise. "I loved the ultra-heavy guitar tones on Fudge Tunnel's Hate Songs in E Minor and Alex showed me how he plays them," Cavalera says. Max liked Newport, so the two hung out and soon started jamming. After the tour, the couple moved to Phoenix near the Cavaleras. While they were on the road, Gloria Cavalera's stepdaughter, Christina, started dating Newport. album, with support from Nottingham, England, sludge/noise band Fudge Tunnel. The roots of Nailbomb can be traced back 1994, when Sepultura were touring behind the previous year's Chaos A.D. People really liked the nostalgic feeling, so we talked about what we could have Soulfly do that would be kind of like that. "We're doing it because my other band Cavalera Conspiracy recently played Roots on tour and it was so great and successful. "My wife Gloria came up with the idea and I thought it was great," Cavalera says. Instead, frontman Max Cavalera wanted to play Point Blank - the sole studio release from his 1994 industrial sludge/groove side project Nailbomb, featuring Fudge Tunnel singer/guitarist Alex Newport - in its entirety. When Soulfly decided to launch a fall tour, it wasn't to support their latest album, 2015's Archangel, or to bang out a set of greatest hits.
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