Fact Live: Petbrick

For the latest in our series of live sessions filmed at 180 The Strand, we invited duo Petbrick to perform a set of noise and metal-influenced electronics. A collaborative project between Big Lad’s Wayne Adams and Iggor Cavalera of Sepultura and Mixhell, Petbrick upend the conventions of metal and hardcore to create what they call “horrible noises”. “Usually, I and Wayne get together in the studio (fuelled by lots of coffee) and we lay our ideas on synths, and we add live drums to it,” Cavalera says of the duo’s process. “We keep going back and forth, chopping the drums and synths until they become actual tunes.” Petbrick’s 30-minute performance offers a taste of the duo’s touring set, as well as two tracks that never before played live from their Deafbrick collaboration with Brazilian acid punks Deafkids, as well a guest vocal from Paranoid London’s Mutado Pintado on the track ‘Gringolicker’. Visuals are by Cavalera’s partner Laima Leyton. The duo make use of a range of electronic and acoustic gear in the