MAX CAVALERA (Sepultura, Soulfly)

Most Can’t-Play-Solos Guitarist

FACTOID! His father was a diplomat.

Max Cavalera would have earned himself a place much higher up my list if he’d ever bothered to learn to play lead. Admitting that his strengths lie elsewhere, the sometime Sepultura frontman has made a career-long point of removing the top E and B strings from his guitars, focusing on rhythm parts and experimental sounds with a range of effects. A highly acrimonious split in 1996 led to Cavalera founding Soulfly and spending some years in the nu-metal doldrums before rediscovering his passion for extremity and taking that band back to fast, violent territory.

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