One of the best performances at Norway's Hovefestivalen came from Cavalera Conspiracy, who mixed songs from their debut album, Inflikted with Sepultura tracks that spanned frontman Max Cavalera's tenure with the band. Click More to read our review and watch the footage.
During "Troops of Doom," a song from Sepultura's 1986 album Morbid Visions, drummer's Igor Cavalera's nephew took his uncle's place on the drum stool, which was a nice moment, but the highlight was seeing Igor and Max onstage again together locking down crushing thrash rhythms with the mechanical precision of a firing squad cocking their rifles. New bassist Johny Chow (who replaced Gojira's Joe Duplantier for the tour), helped keep the songs booming and guitarist Marc Rizzo (Soulfly) added rapidfire leads and textural embellishments that prevented the music from being merely a percussive blast to the solar plexus.
Adding gasoline to an already blazing set was a cover of Motorhead's "Orgasmatron" and a track by Nailbomb ("Wasting Away"), a short-lived side project the Cavaleras launched in the '90s with Fudge Tunnel frontman Alex Newport. Sepultura material included "Refuse/Resist," Dead Embryonic Cells, "Inner Self" and "Roots Bloody Roots" and Conspiracy songs included "Inflikted," "Nevertrust," "The Doom of All Fires," "Dark Ark," "Sanctuary," and a temperature-raising "Must Kill," which only got hotter with each chant of "Judgment. Torment. Execution."
Download the professionally filmed set here.
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