CAVALERA : CHAOS A.D. 2025 TOUR with FEAR FACTORY, GENOCIDE PACT and THROWN INTO EXILE at HOB LV

Photos Harold Mountain, Words Jo Anna Jackson/Harold Mounatin
Oct 13
3 min read

This was a show for the old time metal fans, with two iconic metal musicians together on one stage, brothers Max and Igor Cavalera. Both have been members of CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, SOULFLY, and SEPULTURA with Max on guitar and vocals and Igor on drums, and tonight they would bring the Chaos A.D.2025 Tour to House of Blues in Las Vegas. Also on the bill was one of my all time fav industrial metal bands FEAR FACTORY, and support from death metal band GENOCIDE PACT along with THROWN INTO EXILE.

Kicking off the show was the band Thrown Into Exile, a five piece American metal band from Los Angeles. On this night they were fronted by guest vocalist Hannah Rebel from Disruptive Euphoria (filling in for returned vocalist Evan Seidlitz who was sick) who rocked the set, and they set a brutal tone for the rest of the night.

TIE is out with a new single “Eternal Nothingness” on Nuclear Blast Records, check it out below, and more on the band HERE. Great start to a long night of metal.

Next was the death metal band GENOCIDE PACT formed in Washington D.C. back in 2013, whose sound was the hardest and heaviest of the night. Tim Mullaney who plays guitar and does vocals told the crowd “I want to see everyone from front to back, side to side bang your heads”. And it was so.

This band is hard and fierce, and has three records out - hear more on this up and coming band HERE.

FEAR FACTORY was formed back in 1989, and the big news is that they are releasing a new11th CD in 2026, the first with vocalist Milo Silvestro. Milo is fantastic and really sings all the older Fear factory songs as savage as you need them, and has fit the band well in the last couple years on vocals.

Guitarist Dino Cazares sounded amazing and it was really noticeable on the opening of "Demanufacture" - the band is celebrating 30 years of album Demanufacture, and the first half of their set was dedicated to sings from the record, before adding in standbys "Shock" and "Martyr" before closing their set with "Linchpin" which you can catch right here. We look forward to new music, and keep up on the FF news HERE.

Anytime you have a band with Max and Igor Cavalera on stage you know its going to be a hell of a night. These two legends of the metal world have played in a few of the hardest and most influential bands of the last 30 years. With bassist Igor Amadeus Cavalera, who never stopped moving and jumping about the entire show, and guitarist Travis Stone who murdered the solos the night was destined for metal greatness with a tour celebrating 32 years of SEPULTURA's Chaos A.D., and playing the record in entirety for the fans.

The show started with a video of other musicians talking about the influence of Max and Igor, and how their album Chaos A. D. has had such and influence their career - with some calling Chaos A. D. the greatest album ever made. The set started with "Refuse/Resist" and chaos indeed did reign as the floor became a moshing blur.

The band's song "Kaiowas" has a very tribal sound and featured Travis on the acoustic guitar and Igor driving that tribal beat. For me a highlight of the evening was when the band paid homage to Black Sabbath and Ozzy Ozbourne by playing a killer version of "Symptom of the Universe", which got a huge crowd reaction of the night. Before the band closed out their set they asked the crowd to split down the middle and prepare for the Wall of Death - which came en force as the band ripped into the revamped redux of "Refuse / Resist", and bodies were flying everywhere as a frenzy erupted on the HOB main floor.

When you get a chance to see legendary musicians play an iconic album you have to go and witness history all over again. Chaos A.D. is that album for fans of hard and heavy metal. Those who were there got their money's worth, and these four bands gave us fans one of the best shows of 2025. You can catch everything Cavalara HERE

Cavalera photos Harold Mountain / JustAFanPhotos