The tour with Metallica began in July ’92. With hindsight, this set the tone for the next two years, which became a rollercoaster of cancelled gigs, onstage tantrums and preposterous showbiz excess. A riot broke out, leading to more than 50 people being injured and assault charges for the volatile frontman. Louis, Missouri, Axl took exception to someone taking photographs from the crowd, leaping into the throng and physically attacking the culprit. Guns N’ Roses’ Use Your Illusion tour had started a year earlier, seven months prior to the albums’ release. As a result, when the two bands announced a co-headlining tour for the summer of 1992, it could hardly have been a bigger deal. By the time they released their two-album Use Your Illusion splurge in September 1991, Axl Rose and his comrades were simply the biggest heavy rock band on the planet, with only Metallica registering as credible rivals. Guns N’ Roses: Use Your Illusion, 1992Īlthough they were collectively off-the-rails as a matter of course, Guns N’ Roses had been an unstoppable force for the first few years of their worldwide fame. To this day, fans still hold out hope of a reunion.Ĥ. Sepultura carried on with new vocalist Derrick Green, while Max went on to form Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy. It was the end of the classic Sepultura line-up and the beginning of a decade-long feud with his own brother, Iggor. “And I told Max, ‘You’re welcome to stay with them. I finished my contract and I walked,” she told us last year. Gloria denies she was dismissed, saying the business relationship had come to a natural end. “It’s as if they said, ‘We’re sorry about Dana, but business is business.’” “The situation was coldly calculated,” Max told us. Back on the road, emotions were running high.Īndreas, Paulo and Iggor made the decision to fire Gloria and get a bigger manager, and confronted her after their final show at London’s Brixton Academy on December 16. Max and Gloria flew home, and the band played as a trio. In August, Sepultura arrived in the UK to play Monsters Of Rock, and received the tragic news that Gloria’s son, Dana Wells, had been killed in a car accident. But the band was slowly splitting into two camps: roaring frontman Max Cavalera and his wife Gloria (Sepultura’s manager) versus guitarist Andreas Kisser, bassist Paulo Jr. Roots Bloody Roots was a mega hit, and the record reached No.4 in the UK charts and No.27 in the US. In February, they released their ambitious sixth album, Roots, produced by rising producer Ross Robinson and not only featuring recordings with the indigenous Brazilian Xavante tribe, but guest appearances from heavyweights Jonathan Davis and Mike Patton. Sepultura should have been enjoying a golden year in 1996. Sepultura: Tribalism Across The World, 1996 However, in a typically resolute gesture to not be fucked with, New York natives Biohazard did make it over to play. Pantera pulled out, but Slayer bravely fought on and headlined the three shows.Īlthough, due to a patched-up bill that promised heavyweights such as Static-X and Sepultura, yet had to make do with UK underground newbies Defenestration, refunds, poor attendance and a general sense of distraction by current affairs made it a bit of a non-event. Unfortunately, just two days before things were to kick off in Dublin, the 9/11 terror attacks threw the whole world into chaos, leaving bands stranded all over the world and unable or unwilling to travel. With a line-up that brought both Pantera and Slayer together to tour the UK, alongside a veritable who’s who of the most inspiring metal bands of the time, Tattoo The Planet could have been one of the all-time great gatherings. Slayer/Biohazard and more: Tattoo The Planet, 2001
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