A new record of Soulfly. When this cd fell on my mat I wasn’t exactly like I was about to party and throw some balloons in the air. Why not? Well, Soulfly is Soulfly and will probably always remain Soulfly.

What I mean is, you know what you can expect from Soulfly. Another Thrash album with some ethnic influences. Every CD has a guest artist, and this time it’s an R&B Singer (just like on Primitive)and some serbian influences.
To gain some inspiration, Max has made a journey for this CD. He went to England And Serbia. There he met some musicians with whom he collaborated on this album. If you don’t know this information, you wonder, would it make a difference? Well, Prophecy sounds more open and there are some Serbian guests on ‘Moses’. The whole album breathes a sort of ethnic and open minded atmosphere.
What I have to say is that this CD sounds like their most complex work to date. And with the complexity, it still is brutal.

I think that is the progression Soulfly made with this album. And maybe it’s a good thing: making progression within their limited sound.

Max does not have an wide reach with his vocal capabilities. If he needed melody he always invited an other singer. But he’s honest about that. Songs like ‘Prophecy’ and ‘Execution Style‘ are true, unmistakable Soulfly songs: powerful, angry and heavy. The tribal influences. A song like ‘Mars’ is pretty cool, it begins like an aggressive hardcore/thrash song and ends with some tribal rhythms.
With ‘Wings’ he delivers a ballad with a female vocalist (Asha Rabouin) and ‘In the Meantime’ has a crushing Groove.

The songs are good. It’s better than the nu-metal wannabe record ‘Primitive’, and it’s better than the straight ‘3’ record. Soulfly will go on for years and years I think and well, I will follow them (and I finally want to hear some clean vocals of Max!).