Several former members of Sepultura recently got together for a quarantined performance of the “Bestial Devastation” track, “Antichrist“. Taking part in the remotely recorded cover were the Cavalera brothers, Max (vocals/guitar) and Iggor (drums) while early guitarist Jairo Guedz also joined in.
Iggor commented:
“‘Antichrist‘ is probably one of the first tracks that I ever wrote something on the drums. And as far as I remember, we wrote [it], me and Max, in our bedroom. And we were very influenced by a lot of really cool bands back in ’84, ’85, and those bands were Venom [and] Hellhammer, and then some German bands later, like Kreator and Destruction. So, ‘Antichrist‘, it was one of those tunes where we had an idea of what we wanted to do — very influenced by black and death metal.
Back in 1984, my drum set was not really a drum set; it was just some pieces of percussion that I collected at the time that my parents gave me. So I had a snare and a floor tom. So, our rehearsals back then, I didn’t have kick drums at the time, so I was only playing with my hands, doing all the beats between the two instruments, and then a crash, which was attached to a broom stick with a nail on it.
So it was very primitive. And I remember by the time we went into the studio to record ‘Bestial Devastation‘, I had to adapt some of those beats to a proper drum set, with kick drums, with toms and things like that, even a hi-hat. But then ‘Antichrist‘ is one of those tracks where I still remained some of the very primal way of playing it, with just a floor tom and a snare, so it’s almost like a pre-blast-beat version that I was doing.”
[via Blabbermouth.net]
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