| Blunt Force Trauma | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Cavalera Conspiracy |
| Cover: | Blunt Force Trauma.jpg |
| Recorded: | January - May 2010 at The Liar, Los Angeles, California |
| Genre: | Thrash metal, groove metal, |
| Length: | 34:05 |
| Label: | Roadrunner |
| Producer: | Max Cavalera, Logan Mader |
| Prev Title: | Inflikted |
| Prev Year: | 2008 |
| Next Title: | Pandemonium |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
Blunt Force Trauma is the second studio album by American Brazilian metal band Cavalera Conspiracy. The album was released on March 29, 2011 through Roadrunner Records.[1]
Max Cavalera has this to say about the second Cavalera Conspiracy album on blabbermouth.net:
"Yeah, (we) just got done (in May), so I just got back from the studio. It's finished. We recorded 15 songs, 13 being originals for the album, and then we did a Black Sabbath cover, 'Electric Funeral', that's gonna come out on a Metal Hammer compilation in Europe. And we did a Black Flag cover, a song called 'Six Pack'. We also had a collaboration with Roger from Agnostic Front — he sings on a song called 'Lynch Mob' that we did together in the studio in L.A.; he flew to L.A. to do this collaboration. I was really proud because, to me, Roger is like the godfather of New York hardcore; Agnostic Front is one of the pioneer bands of the whole New York hardcore scene, so it was like recording with a legend of hardcore. The Cavalera album is really intense; that's all I can say about it. It makes the first album sound like pop music."[2]
Regarding the songwriting and recording process for the new Cavalera Conspiracy album, Max said,
"I wrote a lot of the stuff and I sent it to Brazil to (Igor) in the form of a CD — like four tracks of the riffs — so that he would be familiarized with the songs by the time I got to the studio. And then I brought another CD with me, which was, like, newer songs I had just got done (writing) for the album. And everything else we did in the studio together — me and him there on the spot. I told him the idea of making a very intense album with some songs being only a minute and a half, so it's a cross (between) Minor Threat and Slayer and Cavalera Conspiracy. So the idea was really cool — Igor really liked that — and from that point on, the album just grew and song after song, every day a new song came in. And I'm really happy with it. I think people are gonna be blown away when they hear it. I think it's a pretty cool album."[2]
Cavalera Conspiracy
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| Peak chart positions | Sales | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPN [3] | UK [4] | FIN [5] | GER [6] | AUT [7] | SWI [8] | AUS [9] | NLD [10] | FRA [11] | USA [12] | ||||||
| 99 | 99 | 35 | 45 | 46 | 59 | 31 | 74 | 92 | 123 |
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| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | |||||||||||||||