Quotes from Max Cavalera

We love the New York hardcore bands like Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, Gorilla Biscuits, Sick of It All - the whole thing.

The heat doesn't bother me as much as it does other people. I'm from Brazil, where it's hot anyway.

If I'm feeling down, I'll play stuff to get charged up - even better to hear heavier stuff.

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

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 really don't like writing lyrics. It's totally a mandatory thing. It's like homework.

Argentina has the best fans actually. They're amazing over there. Just loud and passionate and they sleep outside the hotel.

Knowing how other people wrote music is a great tool, which can be applied into your own musical mindset.

As far as recording equipment, we use everything! We don't rely too much on Pro Tools like other 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.

With 'Psychosis' we didn't want to have any silence on the record so the whole record plays like this one song. We have noises and feedback and samplers and ambient stuff. Prurient did some stuff for the record which was great.

My favorite instrument is a bemrimbau. I play that every night.

Being from Brazil, I missed out on a lot of American music, so I like to go back and check things out - music from the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies. So much of that stuff was groundbreaking.

We could easily have made 'Arise II' and plenty of fans would have been happy, and we probably would have been OK with that, too. But it was much more exciting coming up with fresh, new stuff like 'Refuse/Resist' which had this crazy, heavy groove on it and 'Territory,' which just had these tribal beats and catchy, weird riffs.

I see metal as really connected to tribalism. Like, even the way we dress and the way we love the music and are part of a movement, it's like we're part of a certain tribe, and we're proud of that.

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!

It's hard to get at first. I think the first time you listen to 'Chaos A.D.,' you're not sure exactly what you just heard. You're just kind of confused. I don't think people fell in love immediately with the album. It was a learning process.

Yeah, I always had the habit of translating a lot of Black Sabbath records - that's kinda like how I first learned English, translating records.

We did some shows - Soulfly played for the Marines twice and it was great meeting those guys. A lot of them are heavy metal fans and go to war areas like Iraq and Afghanistan and listen to their metal. I'm glad that my music has somehow helped them get through that at least a little bit.

I really love 'Killchain' - it's got this groove, it's the groove I always talk about in death metal and black metal, people try to discredit it but you cannot deny it.

I listen to a lot of metal. I'm like a teenager - I make playlists with, like, 200 bands on them.

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.

I like to share my metal with other musicians. It's very cool.

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.