Cavalera Conspiracy has announced the name of its new album is Psychosis, and the album is tentatively due out this October through Napalm Records. The album was produced by Arthur Rizk (Sumerlands, Eternal Champion), mastered by Joel Grind (Toxic Holocaust), and even features a guest spot from Justin Broadrick of Godflesh!
Max Cavalera tells Metal Wani the new album has "got the same intensity and energy of the old stuff like Beneath The Remains and Arise," which is a bold claim considering how rabid the fanbase is for old Sepultura.
Cavalera also details the concept of the album, which is pretty much about the state of the world in 2017.
"It's a bit… kind of like a mix. There's some stuff about what's going on right now, so there's some terrorist stuff in songs like 'Impalement Execution' and 'Terror Tactics' and 'Excruciating'. And there's some kind of fantasy stuff, like 'Crom', which is the father of Conan. That was a really fun song to make. We have a song called 'Insane' — it's about the state of the world, with Donald Trump and the bombings in England and France. And then, of course, there's an instrumental called 'Psychosis', which is the name of the album, which I think is cool, because I think it also reflects the state of mankind right now, the state of the world right now. It's pretty much psycho — we're living in a psycho age, with madness everywhere we go.
"The Godflesh song is called 'Hellfire' — it's about drones. It was inspired by a movie called 'Eye In The Sky' and a movie called 'Good Kill', which is about drones and how people just sit in an air-conditioned office in Nevada and bomb people in Afghanistan and Pakistan with those crazy drones. It was a really cool song built around that, and I really love Justin from Godflesh's vocals. He sings more in the line of the 'Streetcleaner' vocals from the early Godflesh, so that came out really nice."
Honestly, I'm still hung up on the "old Sepultura" comment. Can you imagine if this really does shape up to be Arise-levels of good?
