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 motherf**kers you see trying to sell Jesus today!"Īlthough Max is particular in clarifying that he doesn't subscribe to a particular established "religious" tradition, he still holds key philosophical concepts close to his heart: "At the same time though, I got really frustrated with people trying to connect me to religion, especially in America where they tried to stereotype me as this 'Christian' guy, and I'm like: 'What?! Are you f**king crazy?!' I do hate a lot of 'religion' but people like Christ - yeah they inspire me. It's really easy to be all like, 'Oooh I'm evil' with an inverted cross and all - anybody can say that. So, to dedicate the SOULFLY albums to God - in my eyes that's a punk thing to do 'coz nobody else is doing it. I think it's a very punk thing to not do clichés and what is expected. "I find passages of the Psalms as well as many other parts of the Bible to be really apocalyptic and exciting. On making space for positivity on his albums - most notably in the recital of Psalm 91 in his native Portuguese: A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: Tom Day of recently conducted an interview with SOULFLY/ex- SEPULTURA frontman Max Cavalera.
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