Igor Cavalera

Cavalera started playing drums around seven years old. He was into samba music as a child but, after seeing Queen live in 1981 along with his older brother Max, he started listening to rock music.{{cite web|last=Pertout |first=Andrián |url=http://www.pertout.com/Sepultura2.htm |title=Sepultura: Igor Cavalera |publisher=pertout.com |access-date=12 January 2014}} When Sepultura was formed, Cavalera was the youngest member at the age of 13, his brother Max was 14 at the time. Sepultura was a big success and gave Cavalera an early start. On 21 April 1984, Cavalera played, for the first time, on a real drum kit, which was borrowed from Helinho of the band Overdose, that also played that night.

After the band split with his brother Max (lead vocals/rhythm guitar) in 1997, their relationship underwent a crisis. In recent times their relationship has improved. Cavalera joined Max's current band Soulfly on stage at the 2006 tenth annual D-Low Memorial Show, to play the Sepultura songs "Roots Bloody Roots" and "Attitude". It was the first time the brothers had played together in ten years.

Cavalera is credited as having made a guest appearance on Biohazard's 2001 release Uncivilization on the track "Gone". He also served as a live musician for parodic heavy metal band Massacration under the pseudonym "El Covero" throughout 2004.{{cite web|url=https://www.wikimetal.com.br/iggor-cavalera-baterista-massacration-temos-odio-metaleiros-idiotas/|title=Quando Iggor Cavalera foi baterista do Massacration: 'Temos ódio dos metaleiros idiotas'|author=Larissa Catharine Oliveira|work=Wikimetal|date=June 24, 2021|access-date=November 6, 2021|language=Portuguese}}

In 2006, with the release of Dante XXI, he began spelling his name "Iggor", preferring the way it looks. On 13 January 2006, it was announced that he was taking a break from the band due to the birth of his fourth child, initially leaving Sepultura temporarily. He later announced that he was quitting Sepultura due to "artistic incompatibility". Sepultura replaced him with Jean Dolabella.

Cavalera was scheduled to collaborate with underground hip hop artist Necro on a project described by Necro as in the style of "old-school '80s thrash/death metal".{{cite web |url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=53776 |title=Ex-SEPULTURA Drummer IGOR Joins Forces With 'Death Rapper' NECRO in New Project |publisher=Roadrunnerrecords.com |access-date=9 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021154034/http://roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=53776 |archive-date=21 October 2007 }} However, Necro mentioned later that the project will not go ahead.

In 2008 Cavalera released the album Inflikted together with his brother Max in a project named Cavalera Conspiracy.

In 2012, Cavalera performed drums for the entire Strife album Witness a Rebirth, released via 6131 Records. In 2017, he played drums for Soulwax on their album From Deewee and in their live tour, along with two other live drummers.

In 2018, he formed the noise music duo Pet Brick with Wayne Adams of Big Lad and Death Pedals.

File:Iggor Cavalera in Sao Paulo, 2006.jpg

Cavalera cites drummers Roger Taylor, Bill Ward, Dave Lombardo, Stewart Copeland and Mike Bordin among his major influences.{{cite web|url=http://www.bloomriot.org/47/sepultura-in-concerto-al-bloom-intervista.html |title=Igo Cavalera interview |publisher=bloomriot.org |language= it|access-date=12 January 2014}}

In the early Sepultura albums his drumming was loud and fast, following the thrash metal style of the 1980s. He mastered this style by 1987–1991 (with Schizophrenia, Beneath the Remains and Arise). His innovative style in the album Chaos A.D. brought tribal elements into the songs. One example of his contribution is the introduction of the song "Territory" (1993, Chaos A.D.). He further developed this style in the 1996 Roots album, adding more tribal elements to Sepultura's music.

Throughout his career, Cavalera has been widely recognized as a hard-hitting drummer (acknowledged by producer Scott Burns during the recording of Beneath the Remains). In later years, Cavalera adopted a drumset conformation with upright toms and fewer cymbals, as seen in Live in São Paulo. In reference to his work on the Sepultura album Nation, AllMusic wrote "Drummer Igor Cavalera's timing and tempo couldn't be more perfect as the adrenaline heightens until the album's intensity burns right through the speakers."{{cite web|last=Smith |first=Kerry L. |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/nation-r523198/review |title=Nation – Sepultura |publisher=AllMusic |date=20 March 2001 |access-date=9 October 2011}}

Cavalera has four children, born in 1996, 2000, 2002 and 2006. He has lived in London since 2013.{{cite web|url=http://www.cavalera.com.br |title=Cavalera Inverno 2011 |publisher=cavalera.com.br |access-date=9 October 2011}}

Cavalera collects toys and football shirts and has many hobbies, including Brazilian jiu-jitsu, kickboxing, snowboarding, surfing, drawing and supporting Brazilian football club Palmeiras. He admires his father Graziano Cavalera as his role model. In 1996, he started the fashion label "Cavalera". His fashion label has faced controversy of its use of the Albanian flag as its logo. In 2020, a petition called for "Cavalera" to change it.

On July 5, 2023, Cavalera’s brother Max announced that their mother Vania had died.{{cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/max-iggor-cavalera-mother-death/#:~:text=Max%20%2B%20Iggor%20Cavalera%20Mourn%20the%20Death%20of%20Their%20Mother%2C%20Vania%20Cavalera&text=This%20week%2C%20the%20prolific%20heavy,She%20was%2080.|title=Max and Igor Cavalera mourn their 80 Year old Mother|website=Loudwire |date=6 July 2023 }}

{{main|Sepultura discography}}

• Bestial Devastation (1985)
• Morbid Visions (1986)
• Schizophrenia (1987)
• Beneath the Remains (1989)
• Arise (1991)
• Chaos A.D. (1993)
• Roots (1996)
• Against (1998)
• Nation (2001)
• Roorback (2003)
• Dante XXI (2006)

{{main|Cavalera Conspiracy#Discography}}

• Inflikted (2008)
• Blunt Force Trauma (2011)
• Pandemonium (2014)
• Psychosis (2017)
• Bestial Devastation (Re-Recorded) EP (2023)
• Morbid Visions (Re-Recorded) (2023)
• Schizophrenia (Re-Recorded) (2024)

• Plague God (2022)

• I (2019)
• I Remixes (2020)
• Deafbrick (collaborative album with Deafkids) (2020)
• Liminal (2022)

• From Deewee (2017)

• Titãs – Domingo on "Brasileiro" (1995)
• Pavilhão 9 – Cadeia Nacional on "Mandando Bronca" (1997)
• Soulwax – Belgica soundtrack - drums with Burning Phlegm (2016)
• Ladytron – Ladytron (2019){{cite web |title="Ladytron" Album Title, Front Cover, Track Listing & Release Date |url=https://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/ladytron/updates/101021 |website=pledgemusic.com |language=en}}
• Pig Destroyer – The Octagonal Stairway (2020){{cite web |title=Pig Destroyer Bandcamp |url=https://pigdestroyer.bandcamp.com/album/the-octagonal-stairway |language=en}}
• Crizin da Z.O. - "O Fim Um" (2024)[https://qtvlabel.bandcamp.com/album/qtv065-acelero QTV065 - ACELERO]

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