Blunt Force Trauma (album)
2011 studio album by Cavalera Conspiracy
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Blunt Force Trauma is the second studio album by American Brazilian metal band Cavalera Conspiracy. The album was released on March 29, 2011 through Roadrunner Records.[5]
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| Released | March 29, 2011 | |||
| Recorded | January–May 2010 at The Liar, Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Thrash metal, groove metal, death metal | |||
| Length | 34:05 | |||
| Label | Roadrunner | |||
| Producer | Max Cavalera, Logan Mader | |||
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Album information
Max Cavalera has this to say about the second Cavalera Conspiracy album on blabbermouth.net:
"Yeah, (we) just got done (in May), so I just got back from the studio. It's finished. We recorded 15 songs, 13 being originals for the album, and then we did a Black Sabbath cover, 'Electric Funeral', that's gonna come out on a Metal Hammer compilation in Europe. And we did a Black Flag cover, a song called 'Six Pack'. We also had a collaboration with Roger from Agnostic Front — he sings on a song called 'Lynch Mob' that we did together in the studio in L.A.; he flew to L.A. to do this collaboration. I was really proud because, to me, Roger is like the godfather of New York hardcore; Agnostic Front is one of the pioneer bands of the whole New York hardcore scene, so it was like recording with a legend of hardcore. The Cavalera album is really intense; that's all I can say about it. It makes the first album sound like pop music."[6]
Regarding the songwriting and recording process for the new Cavalera Conspiracy album, Max said,
"I wrote a lot of the stuff and I sent it to Brazil to (Igor) in the form of a CD — like four tracks of the riffs — so that he would be familiarized with the songs by the time I got to the studio. And then I brought another CD with me, which was, like, newer songs I had just got done (writing) for the album. And everything else we did in the studio together — me and him there on the spot. I told him the idea of making a very intense album with some songs being only a minute and a half, so it's a cross (between) Minor Threat and Slayer and Cavalera Conspiracy. So the idea was really cool — Igor really liked that — and from that point on, the album just grew and song after song, every day a new song came in. And I'm really happy with it. I think people are gonna be blown away when they hear it. I think it's a pretty cool album."[6]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Max Cavalera, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Warlord" | 3:05 |
| 2. | "Torture" | 1:51 |
| 3. | "Lynch Mob" (Featuring Roger Miret of Agnostic Front) (Cavalera, Miret) | 2:31 |
| 4. | "Killing Inside" | 3:28 |
| 5. | "Thrasher" | 2:49 |
| 6. | "I Speak Hate" | 3:10 |
| 7. | "Target" | 2:36 |
| 8. | "Genghis Khan" | 4:23 |
| 9. | "Burn Waco" | 2:52 |
| 10. | "Rasputin" | 3:22 |
| 11. | "Blunt Force Trauma" | 3:58 |
| Total length: | 34:05 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 12. | "Psychosomatic" | 3:09 |
| 13. | "Jihad Joe" | 3:31 |
| 14. | "Electric Funeral" (Black Sabbath cover) | 5:41 |
| Total length: | 46:26 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 15. | "Six Pack" (Black Flag cover) | 1:51 |
| Total length: | 48:17 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Inflikted" | |
| 2. | "Sanctuary" | |
| 3. | "Territory" (Sepultura cover) | |
| 4. | "Terrorize" | |
| 5. | "The Doom of All Fires" | |
| 6. | "Inner Self/Nevertrust" (Sepultura cover/original song) | |
| 7. | "Arise/Dead Embryonic Cells" (Sepultura cover) | |
| 8. | "Desperate Cry/Propaganda" (Sepultura cover) | |
| 9. | "Wasting Away" (Nailbomb cover) | |
| 10. | "Black Ark" (featuring Richie Cavalera of Incite) | |
| 11. | "Holiday in Cambodia/Biotech Is Godzilla" (Dead Kennedys/Sepultura cover) | |
| 12. | "Hearts of Darkness" | |
| 13. | "Refuse/Resist" (Sepultura cover) | |
| 14. | "Troops of Doom" (featuring Igor Cavalera, Jr. on drums) (Sepultura cover) | |
| 15. | "Must Kill" | |
| 16. | "Roots Bloody Roots" (Sepultura cover) | |
| 17. | "Sanctuary" (music video) |
Personnel
Cavalera Conspiracy
- Max Cavalera – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
- Igor Cavalera – drums, percussion
- Marc Rizzo – lead guitar
- Johny Chow – bass
Additional personnel
- Guest vocals on "Lynch Mob" by Roger Miret (from Agnostic Front)
- Produced by Max Cavalera
- Co-produced by Logan Mader for Dirty Icon Productions
- Recorded, mixed and mastered by Logan Mader at Undercity Studios, North Hollywood, California
DVD Credits
- Max Cavalera - vocals, rhythm guitar
- Igor Cavalera - drums, percussion
- Marc Rizzo - lead guitar
- Johny Chow - bass
- Richie Cavalera - guest vocals on "Black Ark"
- Igor Cavalera, Jr. - guest drums on "Troops of Doom"
- Joe Duplantier - bass in "Sanctuary" music video