He said, very straight to us, ‘Dude, you guys are Sepultura! Not Pink Floyd! Don’t do 12-minute songs and concepts,’ because we were coming from that world. For us, it was eye-opening.

This past weekend in Las Vegas, NV, Steve Vai and Sepultura jammed together onstage at the Rock in Rio USA fest for the band’s 30th anniversary, and the results were unsurprisingly very cool. It’s an ...