Asking touring musicians about their favorite new music sometimes feels like pulling teeth — often, the artists are too busy with their own work, or actively avoiding outside influence.

Not so with Max Cavalera, who didn’t need to be prompted before proselytizing about his favorite new metal bands during a recent conversation with GO! Magazine. The Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy guitarist, vocalist and songwriter bubbled over with enthusiasm as he name-dropped bands, sounding for all the world like the metalhead teenager he was when he founded seminal thrash/groove band Sepultura with brother Iggor Cavalera in Brazil in 1984.

“There’s so many great metal (bands) right now — I’ve been listening to, just nonstop, the new Harm’s Way, the new Genocide Pact,” he said from his home in Phoenix, Arizona. “I cannot stop listening to it, man. … A lot of underground stuff like Void Terror and Gruesome. I love a lot of metal; I listen to metal all day long, which is like an obsession. For me, it’s cool that I get to listen to those bands and sometimes go on tour with them, like with Suffocation and Soulfly (in 2016), and Return to Roots and Immolation and Full of Hell. Those are all bands that I really, really like, and I get to play with them.”

Anyone who has followed Cavalera’s career — including Sepultura, which he split from in 1996; subsequent group Soulfly; and his later reunion with Iggor in Cavalera Conspiracy (not to mention numerous side projects over the years) — won’t find this too surprising. Cavalera has constantly drawn influence from new sounds and generations — from Soulfly’s early, nu-metal-inspired albums, to the groundbreaking Brazilian influences found on Sepultura’s “Chaos A.D.” (1992) and especially its follow-up, 1996’s “Roots,” which was played in its entirety by Max and Iggor on the Return to Roots tour in 2016.

Cavalera looked to his past again for the Soulfly as Nailbomb tour, which hits the Domino Room on Tuesday. The shows feature Soulfly, augmented by Cavalera’s son Igor Jr. on keyboards, performing the sole album from Cavalera’s side project with Alex Newport of England sludge metal band Fudge Tunnel, 1994’s “Point Blank.”

The band is purposefully playing smaller venues like the Domino Room on this tour, as opposed to the larger venues Cavalera Conspiracy played on the Return to Roots tour. Whereas “Roots” was a touchstone album for Sepultura and is still its highest-charting record to date according to Billboard 200, Nailbomb’s “Point Blank” was a “cult record,” as Cavalera put it.

“It’s a very special record — a lot of fans really like it and always wanted me to do another Nailbomb album and all that,” he said. “Unfortunately that’s not gonna happen, but we do get to play this live. I think we get a lot of fans that like — they’re pretty much Soulfly fans, Cavalera fans and fans of my stuff in general. But yeah, sometimes, you get somebody that didn’t know about Nailbomb, and discover it and love it and really, really thought it was cool. Because it is kind of a strange record — it was me and Alex’s take on industrial metal.”

Newport, who has worked as a producer since the late ’90s with groups such as At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie and Frank Turner, is not part of the tour, but did give his blessing. He actually contacted Cavalera’s wife, Gloria, before the tour and helped the band obtain the original samples used on the album, Cavalera said.

When “Point Blank” was released, Nailbomb only played one show at the 1995 Dynamo Open Air Festival in the Netherlands, a recording of which was released as “Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide” that same year. Because of that, Soulfly has more room to stretch out on the material, according to Cavalera.

“The idea was to have Soulfly playing ‘Point Blank.’ We add the Soulfly power behind (it),” he said.

Soulfly is putting the final touches on its still-untitled 11th studio album, which will be released in the summer ahead of a tour with Nile, Cavalera said. Cavalera Conspiracy, which saw the Cavalera brothers reunite in 2006 after a decade of animosity stemming from the Sepultura split, released its fourth album “Psychosis,” a bracing return to the siblings’ early thrash roots (no pun intended), late last year.

“The Cavalera record came out of the ‘Roots’ tour, and even though the Cavalera album does not sound nothing like ‘Roots,’ but has the energy,” Cavalera said. “I think we brought that feeling of the energy that we got from the crowd to the studio with us, and I think that’s really cool. And then, similar to Soulfly, but I think what’s cool about the Soulfly record is it’s a little bit different. There’s some percussion stuff, there’s some groove stuff. There’s some songs that are completely — I don’t even think I’ve done stuff like that ever, so it’s new for me.”

Max left Sepultura when the band tried to fire his wife, Gloria, as manager, shortly after the death of Gloria’s son (and Max’s stepson) Dana Wells. (There’s a convoluted local connection here: The name Soulfly first popped up when Max sang it on Deftones song “Head Up” in 1997; Deftones frontman Chino Moreno lives in Bend.) He has expressed interest in a reunion in past interviews, though for now, fans will have to make due with the Cavaleras’ reunion.

These days, the whole Cavalera family is in the metal game: Max’s son Zyon has played drums with Soulfly since 2012, and his other son Igor Jr. is part of the band for the Nailbomb shows. They also have their own group, Lody Kong, which will open on this tour.

“When they were born, I always wished that that could happen,” Max said. “I would just dream about it, and then (it) actually is happening right now. I’m really enjoying it. You’ve gotta really enjoy those things, because you don’t know if you’ll ever get to do them again.”