Cavalera Bros to re-record Morbid Vision and Bestial Devastation

[Mithrandir]

What an awful, awful idea.

Nuclear Blast is proud to announce the signing of metal legends CAVALERA. Today, the band reveal they re-recorded SEPULTURA's first EP, Bestial Devastation, and first full-length album, Morbid Visions.

Max Cavalera comments, "As we get harder year after year, sometimes you've got to go back to where it all started! We re-recorded Bestial Devastation and Morbid Visions with the amazing sound of NOW,  but with its raw and timeless spirit. The artwork reflects the times we're living in right now.... Apocalyptic as hell! We also have two new tracks with riffs from those days, remembered by heart."

Iggor Cavalera states, "I always felt like the recordings of our earlier work didn't do justice to the way we performed the songs. So, this is a very special moment in our lives that we are very proud to show you real fans our true representation of the amazing records Bestial Devastation & Morbid Visions with an insane visual identity...enjoy and see you all in the pit"

Morbid Visions and Bestial Devastation were re-recorded at The Platinum Underground. The albums were produced by Max Cavalera and Iggor Cavalera while John Aquilino handled the engineering. Arthur Rizk was responsible for the mixing and mastering of both albums. CAVALERA enlisted Eliran Kantor to create the artwork for both albums.

https://www.nuclearblast.com/eu/band/news/cavalera-sign-to-nuclear-blast-32201

[Eoin McLove]

At least the artwork is cool. Silly idea but I'm morbidly (bestially) curious to hear what they have done.

[ldj]

Arthur Rizk is the guitarist from Eternal Champion/Sumerlands so production might (MIGHT) be kinda cool for modern standards, most of the time when old bands do this it just means giving them the Andy Sneap treatment.

[Thorn]

First thought was 'ah jaysus Kantor's style will not suit those album covers at all' but in fairness they look superb.

Oh oh oh wait, it took me a second look to notice that the logo says Cavalera not Seps, what's with that? Wasn't there two other non Cavalera humans involved with those recordings , wasn't ou'l Paolo there even back then, bit of a diss to him no? Not to mention the mighty Jairo T (who is currently playing in a Metallica cover band in Brazil apparently !)

[Carnage]

The Cavaleras are the only original members to be involved, Paulo wasn't their first bassist.

Brilliant news, I'd love to hear how the potential of these tracks might translate into actual music. Both releases are dogshit, BD in particular. Troops Of Doom is the only decent thing to come from either, and only the Schizophrenia version at that.

This has the potential to be their Let There Be Blood, can't wait.

[Thorn]

Hmm, fair enough I suppose but I know I went from ' Yeah, might pick those up' to an instant 'Fuck that' when I copped the name change on the cover.

[Carnage]

Never even noticed the logo, but the covers are better straight away. I'm curious as to who else was involved, but it can only be an improvement.

[Eoin McLove]

Morbid Revisions

[Pagan Saviour]

Utterly pointless. Those records have a youthful charm, probably best left alone.

[Eoin McLove]

If nothing else it has made me want to listen to the originals 

[jobrok1]

Hmm, fair enough I suppose but I know I went from ' Yeah, might pick those up' to an instant 'Fuck that' when I copped the name change on the cover.

But sure they can't do it under the Seps banner. So why not, like!

I'll check it out for sure, anyway. Those early recordings are pretty rough, so a re-vamp sounds interesting.
Jairo did a couple of tracks recently enough too with his own Troops Of Doom band.

Did Paulo play on any of the early stuff at all?
Going by Wikipedia his first recording contribution was Chaos AD.

[mickO)))]

F the logo says Cavalera not Seps, what's with that?

They have been touring Beneath the Remains / Arise all over the US over the last few years under that name most likely they can't use the Sepultura name. The shows are suppose to have been brilliant even people who wrote Max off years ago that attended were praising them.

Honestly I am interested in this even though most of the time re-recordings turn out shite. I love the first album and EP but just like INRI they suffer from awful production. Other than Troops of Doom and the Anticop bonus track I don't think I have ever heard live versions of the other songs. They already have a tour setup with Exhumed for Autumn for these albums. Be great to see something like that over here.

[Thorn]

It's the connotations of the name Cavalera (The Conspiracy bit can do one too) that's irking me here because thanks to Max it now represents some nu metal, jump da fuck up garbage which is completely at odds with those albums and artworks. Love to see them with Exhumed though.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The Morbid Visions redux artwork looks great, Bestial Devastation not so much. Arra, I'll give them a listen, fully prepared for them to work about as well as when Sodom revisited In the Sign of Evil. Which was almost 16 years ago already 

[Paul keohane]

Havent listened to either recording in years and years,the production probably put me off as a youngfella.Sepultura was all about BTR and Arise for me,liked Chaos AD too.I'll definitely give this a listen though!