Soulfly is about to launch their new document Chama on October 24 by way of Nuclear Blast, which you will get slightly broken by proper now due to “Nihility” that includes Todd Jones of Nails. Predictably it is a friggin’ rager.
“Chama is the Brazilian phrase for flame. It additionally means a ‘calling,'” stated Soulfly mastermind Max Cavalera explains. The symbolism feels apt: the album harks again to the tribal heaviness and non secular ferocity that made Soulfly a family title in excessive metallic, whereas nonetheless carrying a up to date chunk, sculpted partially by producer Arthur Rizk (Energy Journey, Code Orange) and drummer-turned-co-producer Zyon Cavalera.
On the one itself, Cavalera added: “My lyrics are impressed by LG of Entombed and Nihilist. He left this earth in 2021 and he was at all times a giant affect on me. This is without doubt one of the heaviest songs on the document and I like the truth that we went to Bulgaria to make the video. Todd Jones is the particular visitor on the track, delivering the toughest line on the document. ‘I don’t imagine in something!'”
Max‘s son Igor Amadeus Cavalera (Go Forward & Die, Therapeutic Magic) holds down bass duties, whereas longtime guitarist Mike De Leon delivers sharp-edged riffing. Even Worry Manufacturing facility‘s Dino Cazares exhibits up for a visitor spot, solidifying the album’s credentials.
Zyon displays: “With every Soulfly document I’ve performed on, I can really feel my evolution taking place in actual time. This one was no totally different — I acquired to push the band into new locations. It was a blast.”
Recorded at Mesa’s Platinum Underground Studio, with art work by Carletta Parrish, Chama is being touted as a non secular and musical homecoming. Followers of early data like Primitive and Prophecy will discover a lot to like right here, although it is filtered via a long time of expertise, experimentation, and survival.
Max Cavalera, unsurprisingly, sums it up greatest: “This document is the sound of Soulfly‘s hearth. I can’t wait to play these songs dwell for the Tribe!”
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