Derrick Green told us everything. We had this hot telephone line with Brazil yesterday afternoon. The big guy talked to us for about 25 minutes.

It was Nasso Ruskov and Vassil Varbanov sitting here at the radio and Nasso used to live a hell lot in London, so we started with asking about the climate...В В 

WHAT’S THE WEATHER LIKE DOWN THERE IN BRAZIL AT THE MOMENT?
It’s 30 degrees.

YOU’RE JOKING!!!
It’s nice, beautiful, it’s warm.

IT’S COLD, IT’S MINUS 30 HERE...
Ha ha ha

ACTUALLY DO YOU LIKE THE SNOW?
Actually I do not like the snow at all. I don’t like cold weather. I grew up with a lot of snow in Cleveland, Ohio. And I got sick of it at a very young age so now I can’t stand it.

YOUR EUROPEAN TOUR WILL START HERE IN SOFIA, BULGARIA ON FEBRUARY 6 AND WE ARE HAVING A HELL LOT OF SNOW…. SO YOU’D BETTER BRING YOUR SKI HA HA HA.
Naaaaaaaaaaarghhhh

THIS IS GOING TO BE THE FIRST SHOW FROM THE TOUR; DOES IT MEAN THAT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE IN A GOOD SHAPE?
It’s going to be great! I think it’s exciting to start a tour in a city …hum, I don’t believe we’ve ever played there??? And we have a lot of energy just because we’ve been waiting to go on tour for such a long time now.

We have some new songs and we are rehearsing a lot of old songs so it will be the whole history of Sepultura. And it’s great we are starting it there.

YEAH, YOU’RE RIGHT. YOU HAVE NEVER PLAYED IN THIS PARTICULAR CITY BUT YOU HAD A SHOW IN THE CITY OF KAVARNA ON THE BLACK SEA COAST IN 2007…SO YOU ARE COMING TO A DIFFERENT PLACE ANYWAY.
Definitely. I mean I really like playing closed places as well. And this will be like our own show so it’s very exciting.

The whole interview with Derrick talkin on the new album, the Bulgarian artist who did the design for the previous one, his Bulgarian girlfriend, and his thoughts on the Cavalera bros will be published here on Monday.