Iggor Cavalera reunited almost the entire original Sepultura to revisit "Antichrist" in early June – and Max Cavalera was thrilled with the final result.
With the exception of bassist Paulo Jr., Max and Jairo Guedz got together to record the track, released on the band's first EP Bestial Devastation , in the Beneath the Drums series , in which the drummer takes a look behind the scenes of classic tracks from his career and commented on the "precarious" scenario in which the track was composed , without adequate equipment.
The lack of technological resources in the EP's production impacted the sound, but not the power of the material. "When I saw it, it gave me goosebumps," Max said in an interview on The Wikimetal Happy Hour . "It turned out great, the sound was good. You see that these old sounds are fucking good, sometimes we don't value them much because of the quality, it's so bad. The recordings from the 1980s at Cogumelo [Records], the studios seemed like a spaceship to us."
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The singer and guitarist also shared a memory from the time of recording the album Morbid Visions (1986) at Vice Versa studio in São Paulo. “The sound engineer wanted me to turn off the distortion and use a clean guitar. And I was trying to explain the sound to the guy,” he recounted. “I remember me and Iggor , and he said, 'How do you want the drums to sound?'”
Iggor's response left the engineer confused. "'I think it would be cool if the drum sound was like a building imploding,' and the guy looked at me with a face…," Max continued. "Those crazy teenage ideas, but it's cool to see that there's a lot of value in those sounds, and the proof is the 'Antichrist' video, that killer track with the new guitars on top. It even makes you want to re-record that stuff, you know? Doing it again would be really cool."
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