Cavalera Conspiracy

Explore the band's historical lineups, musicians, and studio albums.

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Formation chronology

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Formation 5 of 5

By 2022 Return Beneath Arise, the live guitar was Daniel Gonzalez and the bass was Mike Leon. Important bridge. Not another Cavalera Conspiracy card.
Iggor put it simply: Cavalera Conspiracy is new songs. CAVALERA is the re-recordings and playing that early material. Same soul, different faces — and it can confuse people who only read the spines.
On the 2023 Bestial Devastation and Morbid Visions re-records, Igor Amadeus played bass and Daniel Gonzalez played lead. The Morbid Devastation tour that followed put Travis Stone on guitar instead. Studio and road are not the same quartet.
Schizophrenia was re-recorded with Travis Stone and Igor Amadeus, mixed by Arthur Rizk — and still billed CAVALERA. The operating quartet's first night is 29 August 2023 at Revel in Albuquerque, not the April signing announcement.
Into 2026 they are still selling Chaos A.D. nights as Cavalera Conspiracy — festivals, clubs, Download, Hellfest. The name is not retired just because the last physical re-records say CAVALERA.

Formation 4 of 5

Arthur Rizk produced Psychosis and also played the studio bass and synth. He is on the tape. He is not a Cavalera Conspiracy member.
By May 2017 the brothers were already in the Phoenix room with Rizk. Psychosis was finished months before its November street date.
In 2019 the brothers took Beneath the Remains and Arise back on the road. Marc Rizzo still played lead. Mike Leon played bass. Andreas and Paulo were not invited — this was not a Sepultura reunion.
That Rizzo-era lineup was still the one announced for London, Birmingham and Manchester in December 2019.
In 2016 they had already played Roots in full under the banner Max & Iggor Cavalera Return to Roots — a nostalgia run, not a fifth original Cavalera Conspiracy studio era.

Formation 3 of 5

On 31 December 2013 Max told the press Converge's Nate Newton was the new Cavalera Conspiracy bassist for the next record.
Nate posted the next day: yes, bass on the new record. No, he was not leaving Converge.
When the brothers went quiet between records, live bass rotated — Campos filling in, Chow returning for some runs. That rotation is not three extra formations.

Formation 2 of 5

Johny Chow of Fireball Ministry took the vacant bass and played his first Cavalera Conspiracy show on 30 May 2008 at Electric Weekend in Spain.
The touring bassist stayed long enough to record the second album. Joe was busy with Gojira. Chow put the bass on Blunt Force Trauma.
In July 2010 Soulfly said Johny Chow — already playing with Max and Marc in Cavalera Conspiracy — would be loaned in until they found a permanent bassist. The loan did not take him off this band.

Formation 1 of 5

After ten silent years, Igor rang Max out of the blue on a Soulfly tour and said he wanted to patch things up.
Igor's wife Laima Leyton pushed him to pick up the phone. The brothers' freeze had lasted since the Sepultura split.
Max and Gloria met Igor at Phoenix airport with flowers. The hug was family, not a contract signing.
On 17 August 2006 at the D-Low Memorial in Tempe, Igor walked on with Soulfly and played Attitude and Roots Bloody Roots. He was a guest that night — not a Soulfly member, and not yet Cavalera Conspiracy.
After that jam Max hatched a new record — then admitted he had lied and said a pile of songs were already written. He had to go write them.
Inflikted had been sitting in Max's Soulfly pile. He wanted that riff with his brother. Gloria's idea: bring in Joe Duplantier from Gojira.
They called the band Inflikted until 22 August 2007, when other bands already using the name forced Cavalera Conspiracy. The D-Low show nine days later was still billed Inflikted.
Max said the new name barely had a deep meaning at first — a conspiracy against industry politics, two brothers playing like they were thirteen again.
In July 2007 at Undercity in Los Angeles they tracked the debut with Logan Mader: Max, Igor, Marc Rizzo, Joe — and Rex Brown dropping in on Ultra-Violent.
Joe really played the record. He could not play the 2008 Infliktour — Gojira needed him in the studio — so the road needed someone else.