Within the new problem of Metallic Hammer, we spoke to Soulfly mastermind Max Cavalera and Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor to get the story behind Soulfly’s nu steel anthem Jumpdafuckup.
Recorded for Soulfly’s second file Primitive, launched in September 2000, Jumpdafuckup noticed the long-lasting steel frontmen be part of forces. Cavalera admits he was impressed by the tendency in 90s hip-hop for visitor spots on tracks, telling Hammer, “I believed, ‘why cannot we try this with steel? That might be cool!'”
Taylor was simply one of many friends featured on the file, alongside Slayer frontman Tom Araya, Deftones’ Chino Moreno and Sean Lennon, son of Beatles legend John. Cavalera was already a fan of Slipknot after listening to Wait And Bleed, so reached out to Taylor to see if he would have an interest.
“Max’s individuals hit me up like, ‘do you wanna do a tune with Max?'” Taylor recollects. “In fact I do! What are you, fucking nuts?”
Though captivated with their collaboration, Cavalera admits there have been a couple of teething points on the day of the recording. “Corey was enjoying in Arizona the week we had been within the studio,” Max advised Hammer. “Me and my pal drove to the venue and so they’re nearly to soundcheck and I shout, ‘Hey Corey, what’s up! We’ve to go to the studio and file!'”
“We just about kidnapped him,” Cavalera says with a chuckle. “‘Fuck your sound test!’ We put him on this piece-of-shit automobile within the desert.”
Taylor would not appear to thoughts a lot nonetheless. “We received around the mic and sang [Jumpdafuckup] collectively,” Taylor says. “Dude, it was among the best experiences of my life! It was my first actual style of doing one thing with a peer… Nicely, not even a peer, however a hero! It was fucking Max Cavalera!”
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