News & Updates

The 14th Annual D-Low Memorial Show is set to take place on August 28, 2010 at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, AZ. The show will feature performances from Soulfly, Incite, Howitzer, 49 Til Midnight, and North Of Nowhere. Purchase tickets for the show here!

As was announced by Roadrunner Records, Soulfly have indeed parted ways with bassist Bobby Burns. The split was completely amicable and there was no animosity on either side.

Earlier yesterday, Bobby posted the following message on his Twitter page in regards to the decision: "To all the fans... Soulfly and I have decided to part ways. Stay tuned for my next projects already in the works. Thanks 4 ur support!!!"

Johny Chow, who plays with Max and Marc in Cavalera Conspiracy (and is also a member of Fireball Ministry), will be loaning his skills to upcoming Soulfly tours for the immediate future until the position is filled. Fans will be able to check out this lineup of the band out on the second leg of the Omen tour beginning at the end of July. Check out the tour date section here for all the date/city/venue info.

'Discography' is a series originating at Roadrunner UK that interviews an artist going album-by-album through their catalog. While Soulfly were in the UK at the start of their 9-week touring assault throughout Europe, RR UK caught up with frontman Max Cavalera to talk about the band's discography.

In this 4th part of our 5-part Discography series with Soulfly's mainman, Cavalera walks us through the making of these two albums before bringing us full circle to the band's current release Omen tomorrow. Read his insights below and be sure to check back for the final installment tomorrow!

"Dark Ages was a complete departure from anything commercial. We went heavy all the way. It’s a black album cover, it’s a dark album with songs like ‘Frontlines’, ‘Carved Inside’, ‘Babylon’ and ‘I and I’.

"It’s a return to the thrash metal feeling from the Sepultura days, I rewrote a lot of riffs that had been inside me for a long time.

"It was a dark time too- we had the death of Dimebag in the same month we were in the studio, and my first grandson also died. That’s where the name Dark Ages came from."



"Conquer was recorded in Orlando in a house. One of Bobby’s (Burns, bassist) friends, Tim, had a studio, he’s a metalhead with Slayer posters all over the wall. It was cool. It was like a friend that you had 20 years ago, and you go stay in his house. He was totally into the music, and he helped me produce and engineer the record.

"Conquer got really amazing reviews. A lot of people really like it. It came out of Dark Ages which people thought was our best album, but people thought this was even better."

Click here to continue reading Max's entire reflection...

'Discography' is a series originating at Roadrunner UK that interviews an artist going album-by-album through their catalog. While Soulfly were in the UK at the start of their 9-week touring assault throughout Europe, RR UK caught up with frontman Max Cavalera to talk about the band's discography.

In this brutally honest part 3 of our Discography series with Soulfly, Max Cavalera discusses his own disappointment in the band's third album 3 and his joy in the writing and recording of the bands 2004 follow-up to that Prophecy. For those who missed yesterday's discussion of Primitive or Monday's discussion of the band's self-titled debut, click here for part 1 and click here for part 2.

"3 for me is the weakest Soulfly album. It's an uninspired name, I don't know what the fuck I was thinking. The original name was Downstroy, but I think out of laziness I changed it.

"Out of that album, two things came out good. 'Seek and Strike', which we still play live and which has a great bouncy riff, and 'Last of the Mohicans' (called'L.O.T.M.' on the album itself). Everything else on that record is really not that good. I think it was a little bit rushed, and I wasn't very inspired."



"Prophecy came out like a big revelation for everybody, it was a great album. I was back, my creative shit was back again, and it turned out to be a great record with songs like 'Prophecy', 'Living Sacrifice', and 'Mars' with the flamenco jam that Marc does every night.

"I went to Serbia to record with Eyesburn, where we did one of the first metal/dub/reggae songs, called 'Moses'. There's a professor of music who played bagpipes and all these weird instruments which I think was really cool, and Dave Ellefson from Megadeth played bass on three tracks.



"In the end, I think that's where you can hear the first signs that we're going heavier. There was a 'the heavier the better' attitude and that was the case."

Click here to continue reading Max's entire reflection...

AUSTRALIA!!!!!

Soulfly will team up with City of Fire and Incite for an Australian tour starting September 7th.

Soulfly will share top billing with Vancouver five piece, City of Fire, featuring members from Fear Factory and Strapping Young Lad – Burton C Bell, Byron Stroud and Jed Simon. The tour will feature support from Phoenix natives, Incite (fronted by Richie Cavalera).

Dates are:

Tuesday 7th September - Hi Fi - Brisbane QLD

Wednesday 8th September - Palace Theatre - Melbourne VIC

Thursday 9th September - UNSW Roundhouse - Sydney NSW

Friday 10th September - Panthers Newcastle - Newcastle NSW
Saturday 11th September - ANU BAR - Canberra ACT
Sunday 12th September - HQ Complex- Adelaide SA
Tuesday 14th September - Club Capitol - Perth WA

TICKETS ON SALE THURSDAY 1ST JULY 9AM FROM ALL USUAL OUTLETS

See you motherfuckers in the pit!!!

'Discography' is a series originating at Roadrunner UK that interviews an artist going album-by-album through their catalog. While Soulfly were in the UK at the start of their 9-week touring assault throughout Europe, RR UK caught up with frontman Max Cavalera to talk about the band's discography.

Yesterday we posted Max's account of Soulfly's 1998 self-titled debut, and today we've got Cavalera discussing the band's sophomore album, Primitive:

"Primitive was a guest album! I still don’t know how I pulled all these people together. We had so many people on that one album, and they all flew in for it.



"Sean Lennon stayed at my house for five days to record one song. We went out to the desert – he’d never been in the desert before – and went off-road driving with him. We wrote the beginning of the song (‘Son Song’) in the middle of the desert with acoustic guitars, his part was more like a rock part. We did our parts in the studio.

"The album was recorded in Mesa, which is a fucked-up suburb of Phoenix. It’s a ‘white-power’ place, everyone is either a redneck or a recovering drug addict- that’s the vibe of the place. We had a motorhome parked in front of the studio, that was where we hung out the whole time.



"On the song ‘Mulambo’ – which has about a hundred people singing the chorus – we had so many friends come down we had to record in a parking lot behind the studio!"

Click here to continue reading Max's entire reflection on Soulfly's Primitive release...

'Discography' is a series originating at Roadrunner UK that interviews an artist going album-by-album through their notable catalog. While Soulfly were in the UK at the start of their 9-week touring assault throughout Europe, RR UK caught up with frontman Max Cavalera to talk about the band's lengthy discography.

Starting with the Soulfly's 1998 self-titled debut, Max pontificates on the making of the album and how he feels about it looking back after all these years:

" ...The musicians were Lucio (Maia), a great Brazilian guitar player who plays bossanova-style Brazilian guitar mixed with Jimi Hendrix, really tasty guitar playing – he did a lot of cool stuff on the record. We had Roy (Mayorga – drums) and Marcello (D. Rapp – bass) in the band too. Roy’s an amazing drummer, he still kicks ass today. He made great beats for the record, I love the beats he did on ‘Eye For An Eye’ – he wrote it on a drum machine but translated it to a live set, with the same energy. Marcello’s a really good bass player too- he was a Sepultura roadie for many years so we were friends from when we were teenagers. He started playing bass and got really good at it, so I invited him to be part of Soulfly from the beginning.



"[Recording with new people after Sepultura] was scary, I didn’t know if I could trust these guys with the burden of coming from albums like Roots and Chaos AD, it was a huge space to fill, but they did great. The album sounds amazing, really powerful. It’s a lot of people’s favourite Soulfly album.

"To me, there’s a lot of pride involved because it was my first American Gold album, before Sepultura achieved that. It’s on my wall, it has huge value to me. It was also Gold in Australia..."

Click here to continue reading Max's entire reflection on Soulfly's eponymous release...

Soulfly are coming back to Ireland this summer.

August 1 - Dublin, Ireland @ The Academy (tickets)
August 2 - Belfast, Ireland @ Spring and Airbrake (tickets)

Photo courtesy of Zeltia Fernandez via Facebook

Exactly what the headline says. 4 shows added. 1 show postponed. Check below for the details...



June 14 - Fontaine - Liepaja, Latvia - BUY TICKETS
June 15 - Rock Café - Tallin, Estonia - BUY TICKETS
June 17 - Tavastia - Helsinki, Finland - BUY TICKETS
July 31 - Sonisphere Festival UK - Knebworth, UK - BUY TICKETS

Unfortunately, Soulfly has been forced to postpone the band's previously scheduled gig at Rockhal in Luxembourg that was planned to take place next week on June 6. The show will be rescheduled as part of the second leg on the Euro tour. We're expecting a date in August, but are still waiting for a confirmation.

CLICK HERE FOR THE COMPLETE EUROPEAN TOUR DATE LIST (..so far)

Thanks to everyone who has come to the shows so far! Omen is in stores NOW!!!

Main photo courtesy of Stéphane Harnisch via Facebook. Thumbnail photo courtesy of Phil Mowbray via Facebook.

OMEN is now in stores everywhere! Pick it up. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your co-workers. Soulfly is coming for you all on tour!!!

Fellow metalheads, THE day has nearly arrived (that's right, in most parts of the world, Soulfly's next album Omen hits the streets in less than a week)! With the band on tour in Europe and the release date of (what seems to be) our most anticipated album so close, the web is abuzz with Soulfly press like never before! In fact, we're having a hard time keeping up with it all; however, this post is an attempt for your resident web-host to try to synthesize the collective thoughts of the internet metal community from the past week into a concise recap. Read below and click the links to read, watch, and listen to the latest about the tribe!

Album Stream:
OMEN (the full album is streaming RIGHT NOW at Blabbermouth.net)

Interviews:
Max Cavalera, Metal Hammer UK, "Soulfly’s Max Cavalera’s Top Five Tours!"
Max Cavalera, Kerrang! UK, "Kerrang! Podcast: Soulfly"
Max Cavalera, I Heart Guitar, "Interview: Soulfly's Max Cavalera"

Live Photos:
14/5 @ Long 'I' Rock in Longirod, Switzerland - Manu Froelicher (MCD Photos)
14/5 @ Long 'I' Rock in Longirod, Switzerland - Long 'I' Rock (official website)
14/5 @ Long 'I' Rock in Longirod, Switzerland - Sébastian Anex (blog.sebanex.com)
16/5 @ Brook in Southampton, UK - Benji Walker (JSN Photography)
17/5 @ O2 Islington Academy in London, UK - Eduardo DK (personal Flickr)
18/5 @ 53 Degrees in Preston, UK - Joni Andrews (personal Flickr)

Live Video:
YouTube (search "Soulfly", recent videos, etc.)

Reviews:
OMEN, Sphere Magazine, (4/5)
-"...fast, hard and brutal fucking metal from one of the most iconic alternative bands of the last decade. Celebrate the return of Soulfly with this immense recording."
OMEN, Hook in Mouth: Extremely Lazy Review, (9/10)
-"Crunchy, slightly thrashy, and melodic at times make Omen very enjoyable for multiple listens, especially for Sepultura fans of old."
OMEN, Release List: First Impressions, (4/5)
-"...sounds like a sure-fire classic [in] the Soulfly catalog!"
OMEN, Pitriff, (8/10)
-"...listening to songs like “Great Depression”, you remember the past rage so vividly. There's no denying that the same guy that wrote songs like “Dictatorshit” or “Dead Embryonic Cells” wrote this song."
"Rise of the Fallen", Gears of Rock: Single Review, (5/5)
-"...balls out brutal! Brazilian metal deity Max Cavalera has dropped another huge atomic hit on the scene."

Out next Tuesday, May 25th, Soulfly's seventh studio album Omenis streaming in it's entirety for a special 24 hour sneak peak on Blabbermouth.net starting RIGHT NOW!
Various Soulfly traditions remain upheld over the course of the album's 11 tracks: Bobby Burns' bass rumbles and roars on teeth-gnashing opener "Bloodbath and Beyond", as Joe Nunez commences pure percussive pummeling. Marc Rizzo tears through throat-slitting leads, while still making room to groove on the likes of "Lethal Injection". Max's unmistakable vocals and riffs work in tandem for the ultimate aural assault. Listen for yourself here!
If you like what you hear, pre-order the album right now and get an instant MP3 or go to your local retailer next Tuesday to pick it up!