The long-gestating and as-yet unnamed supergroup featuring Soulfly‘s Max Cavalera, The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s Greg Puciato, Mastodon‘s Troy Sanders and former The Mars Volta drummer Dave Elitch have found a new label home with Nuclear Blast.
Producer Josh Wilbur (Lamb Of God, Gojira) oversaw the initial recording sessions for the bands debut this past September. According to Cavalera—who recently broke the news to Metalkaoz.com—the bulk of the recording is done with around half of Puciato‘s vocal contributions remaining to be tracked.
Cavalera went on to describe the album as sounding as a mix between the heaviness of Soulfly and the melody of Mastodon. It is due to feature twelve songs in total and will arrive mid-2014.
Cavalera also addressed some of his other happenings in the interview, including his book, Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy. In regards to his brother Iggor‘s comments about their next effort being “a metal version of The White Stripes“, Cavalera stated that the project would be a new EP and not the groups next full-length release.
Cavalera also addressed his increased vocabulary on Soulfly‘s new album, offering:
“This record I tried to find different words so I don’t repeat the same words a lot of times. So I was looking for very unusual words and I found a couple there’s some very… ‘swallow’s ostentation’, skullduggery, you know, like weird, weird, dictionary…. find weird words that nobody is using, put them in there, you know, try to find something different.”
