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. Point Blank is abrasive, in your face, and loud as hell with the lid off.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. This is an ass-kicking album, that is full-on malevolent from the get-go. Relentless grinding riffs, and an industrial-strength percussive roar, the lyrics are uniformly nihilistic and the album is riddled with left-field samples that add a disorienting, dehumanizing texture. “Exploitation” is a cover originally by the English crust punk band Doom. The first track “Wasting Away”, appears in the 1995 film To Die For. Also Dino Cazares of Fear Factory and Ritchie Bujnowski from Wicked Death are featured on the album. Nearly the entire Sepultura lineup is present on the guest list – both Andreas Kisser and Igor Cavalera are credited. The album combines the thrash-metal fury of Sepultura with the robotic industrial clangor of Fudge Tunnel. Point Blank is their only studio album, originally released in 1994 by Roadrunner Records. Nailbomb was a side project by Sepultura’s Max Cavalera and producer/engineer Alex Newport in the mid-1990s.
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