Here it is: number three. I could stop right there. Soulfly 3 is just that good. But it is not just an album with more songs from Soulfly, it is new and improved. Whether it is better than the previous albums has to be seen, I can’t say anything on that yet, we’ll just have to see. It does have potential, though. And the second you put on this album, you’ll know. Right from the start, it punches out so much power, if this doesn’t get to you, you would have to be in a coma at least. Guess they had to prove a point or something. Later on through the album gets a bit more mellow sometimes, but only now and then, making the album very diverse. According to the press info, a lot of thought has gone into the album. About the choice of songs, about the order of the songs, and of course, about the guests playing along on the album. Like “One” for instance, with guest vocals of Christian from Ill Nino. However, there are much less guest artists on this album, making it (according to Max) “more Soulfly”. Naturally, the more you play by yourself, the more something becomes your own. A nice other thing is “Tree Of Pain”. This over eight minutes long epic is a clear example of the effort put into the album.

Max Cavalera and his men are constantly improving on themselves and trying out new things, some of which are quite surprising actually. Like the last song, which only remotely sounds like the stuff we know (like the use of some tribal sounds in the background), but the rest of the song is actually very relaxed, just a tune for background listening. Really, this is not a joke. But it does show how Soulfly are experimenting along the way and are not too afraid to put new things on record. Same can be said about the track “9-11-01”, which is, you guessed it, a dedication to the disaster in New York. It is not a song, it is silence, according to Max the purest form of respect. You have to be quite certain of yourself to out a minute of nothing on your album so respect for that, but whether he should have done this at all is, to me, questionable. Do we want to be reminded of this, and especially, every time we put on the CD? Maybe a line in the book would have been enough. Sorry about that, it just bothered me. The rest of the album is just what you’d expect, over fifty minutes of earshattering mayhem. From the first second to the last (of track 13), this is the new Soulfly. Get it. Now.