Max Cavalera says the debut album by his new band Go Ahead And Die stopped him losing his mind over the last 12 month. “Everybody was going crazy because of the pandemic,” he says. “There was a black cloud around, and nobody had anything to do. So making this record, I had a reason to get out of bed and do something with my life. It saved my sanity.”There’s another reason it means a lot to him. It marks the first time the current Soulfly/former Sepultura frontman teamed up with his son, Igor Amadeus Cavalera. “I always had a great metal connection with Igor since he was little,“ says Max. “‘I showed him a lot of stuff from my era, like Celtic Frost and Discharge, and he’s showed me some newer stuff like Full Of Hell and Genocide Pact.”The self-titled album wears its love of 80s underground metal, crust-punk and grindcore on its unwashed sleeve, right down to enlisting Carcass frontman Jeff Walker to design the logo. “Both my bands and my father’s bands are way more into groove and sludgy riffs,” says Igor, who fronts stoner-doom outfit Healing Magic. “We definitely wanted to go for an old school vibe with this.”But if Go Ahead And Die’s sound is pure 1980s noise, the topics they’re tackling couldn’t be more 2021. Lead-off single Truckload Full Of Bodies was directly inspired by the pandemic, while the likes of I.C.E. Cage, Toxic Freedom and Worth Less Than Piss aim their fury at all-too-apparent political institutions. We caught up with Max and Igor in Arizona and Florida respectively to get the lowdown on why the world needs Go Ahead And Die and their father-and-son “caveman metal” in 2021.