Last Thursday we had SEPULTURA's vocalist on the phoneВ live from Brazil and he really told us everything weВ wanted to know.В 

YOUR PREVIOUS ALBUM ‘DANTE XXI’..THE COVER ARTWORK WAS DONE BY A GUY CALLED STEPHAN DOITCHINOFF. HIS PARENTS ARE BULGARIAN, BUT THE GUY WAS BORN IN SAO PAOLO AND DOESN’T SPEAK BULGARIAN AT ALL. DID YOU ACTUALLY MEET THE GUY OR IT WAS A LABEL THING?
No, he was actually a friend of Igor's (Cavalera ed.). And we’d see his work all over the city.

So we asked him to come to the studio at the very beginning of the writing process.

And we gave him ideas and communicated with him face to face exactly which way we were going. And so it really came out to be something very special. He did 10 paintings. The actual artworks for the album are paintings so they’re really big pieces.

It was something really very special to work together with him because he's now doing a lot of expositions all over the world.

YOUR NEW ALBUM ‘A-LEX’ IS SUPPOSED TO BE BASED ON  ‘CLOCKWORK ORANGE’. BUT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THE STANLEY KUBRICK MOVIE OR THE ANTHONY BURGESS’ BOOK?
It’s basically centered around the Anthony Burgess book. The book has an extra chapter which made us really interested into doing an album based on the book. The book has no soundtrack and there’s no visuals so we had to use a lot of our own imagination. To come up with the music.

BUT I’M SURE YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE MOVIE AS WELL, RIGHT?
That’s correct. Big fan, yeah!

DO YOU REMEMBER MALCOLM McDOWELL WITH HIS FREAKY RENDITION OF ‘I’M SINGING IN THE RAIN’?
Ha ha ha, yes of course! I definitely remember that part.

DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN VERSION OF THIS SONG?
Not yet, but I’m sure by the end of the tour we’ll have our own version...

I MEAN IS IT A SONG THAT YOU SING SOMETIMES IN THE SHOWER?
I’ve actually done it at a show, the first time we played Cuba it started to pour rain and then some of the equipment went out. So we had a few seconds to repair it. So it just came to my head that this song I have to sing now…

read the whole interview here

See McDowell singing in the movie

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Andreas Kisser'2007 - 'The whole Sepultura story was built on challenges.'

Max Cavalera'2008 -'I believe Cavalera Conspiracy is more than a project, but less than a band.'В