There’s no rest for the wicked. Massimiliano Antonio Cavalera may have just entered his 57th year on our blue, green and increasingly grey planet – a point at which most of his contemporaries are seriously slowing down if not altogether calling it a day – but the indefatigable icon has undertaken an outrageous workload. Not content just reviving revered industrial project Nailbomb and revisiting Sepultura classic Chaos A.D. with Cavalera Conspiracy , he’s also re-lit the engines on Soulfly for this pulverising thirteenth offering.
Actually, pulverising might be an understatement. Named after the Portuguese word for ‘fire’ and, more specifically, the Brazilian battle-cry popularised by UFC legend Alex Pereira, Chama feels like defiant proof that Max and his bandmates are burning ho