- Born
- Birth nameMassimiliano Antonio Cavalera
- Height5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
- Max Cavalera was born in Belo Horizonte to a Brazillian mother and his father was an Italian ambassador. Along with his brother Igor Cavalera he formed the death metal band Sepultura. The band was very popular and released several albums, with "Roots" and "Chaos A.D" both receiving critical praise. He also worked with Fudge Tunnel lead singer Alex Newport forming a side project known as "Nailbomb", with one of their tracks used for the Gus Van Sant film, _To Die for (1995)_ (that song being "Wasting Away"). There was somewhat of a shuffel near 1995, and Max Cavalera left Sepultura to form "Soulfly". Again he was the lead vocalist and played guitar, and with the new band released two albums, "Soulfly" and "Primitive".
This year (2002) sees Cavalera's band release a third album in June. Max Cavalera also provided the more deeper screams for Dwayne Johnson's (WWE's "The Rock") Scorpion King character in The Mummy Returns (2001).
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseGloria Cavalera (4 children)
- Soft, slightly gravelly speaking voice and dark, gruff screaming singing voice.
- Is the uncredited yelling voice of the Scorpion King (The Rock) in The Mummy Returns (2001)
- Left Sepultura in 1996 due a dispute with guitarist Andreas Kisser over the handling of Cavalera's stepson's funeral as well as Kisser's attempts to rid Cavalera's wife as the band's manager. Although Cavalera insisted he regretted the events leading to his departure from Sepultura, he also stated a reunion was unlikely due to the lingering disagreements between him and Kisser.
- Brother of Sepultura drummer Igor Cavalera.
- The name Soulfly came from a Deftones song.
- Has 4 children with wife Gloria; Zyon, Igor, Richie, and Roxanne.
- I do hate a lot of 'religion' but people like Christ - yeah they inspire me. I mean if you look at Christ, He was hanging around with the lowlifes, prostitutes and the losers you know, not going around with those high society motherfuckers you see trying to sell Jesus today!
- Well, this sounds a little bit crazy, but I kind of think all of my albums have colors. Soulfly 1 was green; Primitive was yellow or red; Three was like earth - brown; and Prophecy was gold. Dark Ages is black, you know - it's the dark one.
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