ESP Technical House custom Warlock
I guess it's hard if you're not at least a certain age nowadays to understand just how big Sepultura was in the 90s. Due to the fact that neither post-Max Sepultura nor Soulfly have done very well, the memory of their past glory gets dimmer and dimmer with time. I came to this sad realization looking at Youtube footage of tiny crowds at the Cavalera 'Beneath Arise' shows. But in the 90s on the back of those game-changing classic albums including Chaos AD, they were everywhere. This is a band that played Donington twice, in 94 and 96! Max also introduced the metal world to camo cutoff shorts. Then he decided he wanted to be like Korn with Roots and then it all started to go downhill. If we're to be honest Roots was a mediocre nu-metal album that didn't get better with time. Nu metal sucked then and still sucks now. Unbelievably it was a Yoko Ono-type situation that finally broke them up. It's really a pity the band never recovered. Though both sides seem content doing what they do now- who knows what other greatness lay in store had they ever managed to overcome their differences.
Here is a beautiful custom Warlock from the ESP Technical House, inspired by Max Cavalera. Not that there is anybody else more famous for using a Warlock, is there? It also has a single pickup and Kahler, duh. Anyway, we know that Max was exceedingly loyal to the BC Rich Warlock in the Sepultura days and used them almost exclusively. He even did ads for them. It would seem he had at least a couple of dozen different ones, always 6-inline headstock and usually modified to a single pickup with Schaller or Kahler bridge (probably much to the relief of his guitar tech, as can you imagine the nightmare of having just 4 strings on a Floyd Rose).
Now this is a serious guitar because as you know, the Technical House doesn't just make any old hat. It has a brilliant metallic flake orange with black satin stripe for a more modern metal circa-Roots era look, rather than attempting his grungy, punk sticker and slogan- filled guitars.
Here is a beautiful custom Warlock from the ESP Technical House, inspired by Max Cavalera. Not that there is anybody else more famous for using a Warlock, is there? It also has a single pickup and Kahler, duh. Anyway, we know that Max was exceedingly loyal to the BC Rich Warlock in the Sepultura days and used them almost exclusively. He even did ads for them. It would seem he had at least a couple of dozen different ones, always 6-inline headstock and usually modified to a single pickup with Schaller or Kahler bridge (probably much to the relief of his guitar tech, as can you imagine the nightmare of having just 4 strings on a Floyd Rose).
Now this is a serious guitar because as you know, the Technical House doesn't just make any old hat. It has a brilliant metallic flake orange with black satin stripe for a more modern metal circa-Roots era look, rather than attempting his grungy, punk sticker and slogan- filled guitars.
ESP Max Cavalera Viper
This is a pretty cool Max Cavalera Viper that appears to be a one-off. Though Max used a Camo Viper quite extensively onstage in around 2006-2008 with both Soulfly & Cavalera Conspiracy, the camo colour scheme doesn't actually appear in the ESP catalog for sale. I'm not sure that the Brazilian flag one really caught on with the guitar-buying fans. And this has 3 pickups activated by a coil tap whereas Max himself is known to favour single pickup guitars. Tellingly, this axe has a T-serial number, which stands for the Custom Shop in Tokyo, usually reserved for making artist order guitars, exhibition guitars and special one-offs.
