SOULFLY Frontman Recalls 'Puking' On EDDIE VEDDER

In a revealing interview with author Joel McIver for Performing Musician magazine, SOULFLY frontman Max Cavalera discusses the art of playing live, the rigors of touring — and an unfortunate incident involving PEARL JAM.

"I puked on Eddie Vedder once," Cavalera told McIver. "It was on a SEPULTURA and MINISTRY tour. This is back when PEARL JAM were huge. Eddie was sitting to my right and the MINISTRY guys were on my left and everyone was enjoying themselves. Some of [the other guys that were around] were doing heroin, but I had absolutely nothing to do with that, I was just drunk as fuck. I'd drunk half a gallon of vodka before SEPULTURA played, so I was hanging out and being crazy and talking shit — and I couldn't help it, but a load of vomit just came out of my mouth and went all over him. He was real nice: he didn't care or nothing, he just got up and cleaned himself up and came back — and the minute he came back, I said to him, 'I need your autograph for my sister.' She was a huge PEARL JAM fan. People told me about this later, I don't remember it. His face was just [makes incredulous look], and he gave me the autograph and left!"

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Regarding the songwriting process for the next SOULFLY album, Max said in a recent interview, "I am working on new songs with Marc [Rizzo, guitar], a little bit. We're thinking about making the songs a little shorter, so if you can imagine maybe a little bit like MINOR THREAT mixed with [SLAYER's] 'Reign In Blood' mixed with SOULFLY, with still some world music, but much smaller, and the songs not so long — shorter. It'll be more aggressive than [last year's] 'Conquer' [album] even, because it'll be shorter — it'll be like when SLAYER did 'Reign In Blood', [that] kind of thing. I don't know why some interviewers talked to me and said that they thought that the album was gonna be less aggressive, more like [2000's] 'Primitive', which I don't know where it came from, because I never said that. But this is the official news right now — it's gonna be more aggressive, faster, shorter."

The two B-sides from SOULFLY's "Conquer" recording sessions at the Porch Studio in Orlando, Florida have been made available for streaming at the band's MySpace page. The songs "Mypath" and a cover of BAD BRAINS' "Sailin' On" are available for purchase on the special-edition release of "Conquer" (CD/DVD or digital).

"Conquer" sold around 8,400 copies in the Unted States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 66 on The Billboard 200 chart This number is in line with the opening tally of the CD's predecessor, "Dark Ages", which shifted a little more than 8,000 copies during its first week of release in October 2005 to enter the chart at No. 155.