In a new “Fan First” interview with Revolver magazine, former SEPULTURA drummer Igor “Iggor” Cavalera was asked what the first musician was that he put on a pedestal. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I think the first one, and still one of my favorites to this day, is Bill Ward from BLACK SABBATH.”

Regarding how he first discovered SABBATH, he said: “It’s a funny story, because my father had a bunch of records, and later, me and Max [Igor’s brother and former SEPULTURA frontman], we were going through his collection and we found the first SABBATH record in the middle of it. But that was after we were already into rock music — not so much metal, but more rock. And then, of course, SABBATH became one of those bands that are still my favorite. I still listen to those first records.

“Bill Ward is one of those guys that inspired me, in the beginning, to play the drums, and also the way that he was always pushing the limits with different percussion,” he continued. “And he was out of the ordinary, so he was the one.”

Asked what the “most unique thing” was about Ward’s drumming, Cavalera said: “I think the most unique thing is that in a time when a lot of drummers would just follow the guitars and try to be as — I don’t know — very ‘normal,’ he was trying different things and he was going off. And at times, it seems like the whole band was actually trying to catch up with him. And for me, that was a huge lesson because he put the drums in the front instead of just being the typical drummer who only followed the riff, only followed the bassline. He was actually throwing a few curveballs back then, and that’s for me one thing that really made me look into him as a different drummer.”

As previously reported, Igor and Max will perform select tracks from SEPULTURA’s seminal “Beneath The Remains” and “Arise” albums on a U.S. tour this spring/summer. The trek will include an appearance at this year’s Maryland Deathfest, set to take place May 26-29 at several venues, including Rams Head Live, Soundstage and the Edison Lot.

Max and Igor kicked off a tour celebrating “Beneath The Remains” and “Arise” back in 2018. In early 2020, Max revealed plans to bring the trek to the U.S., but no dates had been announced prior to the pandemic.

In 1996, Max exited SEPULTURA after the rest of the band split with Max’s wife Gloria as their manager.

Igor left SEPULTURA in June 2006 due to “artistic differences.” His departure from the band came five months after he announced that he was taking a break from SEPULTURA’s touring activities to spend time with his second wife and their son (who was born in January 2006).

The current SEPULTURA lineup — featuring guitarist Andreas Kisser and bassist Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. alongside Derrick Green on vocals and Eloy Casagrande on drums — released its latest studio album, “Quadra”, in February 2020 via Nuclear Blast.

Grammy-nominated Lancaster, Pennsylvania five-piece AUGUST BURNS RED will head back out on the road this summer.

Having just wrapped a successful winter 2022 run supporting KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, the band will embark on a headline “Through The Thorns” trek starting on July 15 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The six-week tour will end on August 27 in Long Island, New York. Support on the trek will come from WE CAME AS ROMANS, HOLLOW FRONT and VOID OF VISION.

“We are so excited to hit the road with this awesome package filled with our friends in WE CAME AS ROMANS, and two great new bands: HOLLOW FRONT and VOID OF VISION,” says AUGUST BURNS RED. “We will be hitting up some places we haven’t played in a VERY long time, as well as some familiar favorites. We hope to see you soon!”

A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Tuesday, March 29 at 10:00 a.m. local time and end on Thursday, March 31 at 10:00 p.m. local time. When prompted, type in the presale code “ABRBBM2022” to access tickets before the general public. General on-sale will be Friday, April 1 at 10 a.m. local time. Check back here on Tuesday for ticketing links to individual shows.

Tour dates:

Jul. 15 – Harrisburg, PA – HMAC
Jul. 16 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
Jul. 17 – Providence, RI – The Strand Ballroom
Jul. 19 – Rochester, NY – Anthology
Jul. 20 – Hartford, CT – The Webster
Jul. 22 – Baltimore, MD – Ram’s Head Live
Jul. 23 – Norfolk, VA – Norva
Jul. 24 – Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
Jul. 25 – Knoxville, TN – The Mill & Mine
Jul. 26 – Columbia, SC – The Senate
Jul. 28 – Birmingham, AL – Iron City
Jul. 29 – New Orleans, LA – Republic
Jul. 30 – Austin, TX – Emos
Jul. 31 – Corpus Christi, TX – Brewster Street Icehouse
Aug. 02 – Tucson, AZ – Encore
Aug. 03 – San Diego, CA – Soma
Aug. 04 – Santa Cruz, CA – Catalyst
Aug. 05 – Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades
Aug. 06 – Portland, OR – Roseland
Aug. 08 – Seattle, WA – Showbox Market
Aug. 09 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
Aug. 10 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
Aug. 12 – Great Falls, MT – The Newberry
Aug. 13 – Billings, MT – Zoo Montana
Aug. 14 – Fargo, ND – Fargo Brewing Outdoors
Aug. 16 – Minneapolis, MN – Fillmore
Aug. 18 – Lincoln, NE – Bourbon St
Aug. 19 – Des Moines, IA – Val Air
Aug. 20 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
Aug. 21 – Bloomington, IL – Castle Theater
Aug. 23 – Ft. Wayne, IN – Piere’s
Aug. 24 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogarts
Aug. 25 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
Aug. 27 – Long Island, NY – Paramount

Last year, AUGUST BURNS RED released “Leveler: 10th Anniversary Edition”. The band re-recorded its fourth album, which was originally made available on June 21, 2011, with special guests, brand new guitar solos, alternate tunings, and more.

In 2020, AUGUST BURNS RED guitarist JB Brubaker told Billboard that he and his bandmates have grown more comfortable with the “metalcore” tag in recent years.

“The word metalcore became a little bit taboo for us in like, 2013,” he said. “There was just this enormous boom of bands playing metalcore and it was just so watered-down and predictable and boring. And at this point now in 2020, I feel like so much of that heap of bands that were active seven years ago, so many of them have come and gone now that I’m not as embarrassed by the term ‘metalcore’ anymore. Because I feel like the bands who are left standing from that boom, it’s sort of like the cream rose to the top. And while I much prefer just calling AUGUST BURNS RED a metal band, I get why people would call us a metalcore band. I mean, we play a ton of breakdowns. So if you want to get quite literal about it, the ‘core’ is obvious.”

In a recent Cameo video message requested by Jonathan Montenegro of Sobre La Dosis, LAMB OF GOD guitarist Mark Morton was asked to name his biggest accomplishment and his biggest failure. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I think my biggest accomplishment are my two daughters. I have a very young daughter — she’s brand new; less than a year old — and then I have an 11-year-old daughter. And she’s just a wonderful kid, man. She’s a beautiful human being and I’m so proud of her and the person that she is. And to know that I get the honor of raising her and being her father I consider to be my greatest accomplishment, along with my youngest, who’s just barely crawling now. So I get the chance to do that all over again. Beyond my children, I think my biggest accomplishment is my sobriety. I’ve been sober for several years, and that’s a big accomplishment for me, because I was really, really consumed with addiction — alcoholism and addiction — and it was ruining my life and it was ruining me and my relationship with people that love me and that I love back. So it was a very, very difficult process to get there, but I’m grateful that I had had the chance to live life in recovery. So that’s a big accomplishment for me as well.”

As for his biggest failure, Morton said: “I tell you, man, I’m in a place in my life where I’m so really blessed and grateful for the way my life is that I don’t necessarily consider anything a failure because it got me to this place. Some of it was difficult and challenging, but it got me here. And here’s a good place for me. So I don’t know that anything was a failure. I would say what I failed to do was go a little easy on myself. I’ve always been really hard on myself most of my life and I think that’s maybe the motivation for some of my success, but it’s also been difficult to live with myself at times. So I would say maybe I could have done that a little bit different.”

The 2022 leg of LAMB OF GOD’s “The Metal Tour Of The Year” with MEGADETH will kick off on Saturday, April 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada and hit a further 21 cities before wrapping in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Sunday, May 15.

LAMB OF GOD recently entered a California studio with longtime producer Josh Wilbur (KORN, MEGADETH, GOJIRA, TRIVIUM) to record some of its brand music, tentatively due later in the year.

LAMB OF GOD’s upcoming effort will be the follow-up to the band’s self-titled album, which was released in June 2020 via Epic Records in the U.S. and Nuclear Blast Records in Europe. That LP marked LAMB OF GOD’s first recordings with Art Cruz, who joined the band in July 2019 as the replacement for the group’s founding drummer, Chris Adler.

“Lamb Of God” was recorded with Wilbur and included special guest appearances by Jamey Jasta (HATEBREED) and Chuck Billy (TESTAMENT).

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