Soulfly - Soulfly

..its a Cavalera conspiracy..

Celebrating ten years with this bad boy made me realize how any piece of music with the name CAVALERA on it gleams with quality. The opening track 'eye for an eye' has Burton and Dino from Fear Factory, I love how the song knocks you on your a$$ after 0:13 of silence. I don't care about the god infused lyrics keep in mind Max and Iggor started SEPULTURA an originally satanic band. Fred Durst being on 'bleed' is fine, good song. Worth it for lyrics like "no motherf××king hootie and the blowfish!" March 22, 2008

Love it

This is the best Soulfly album ever!! June 20, 2007

2 1/2 Stars

I won't go into all of the Sepultura/Max Cavalera history in this review, as most of the other reviews have that well covered.

This album was rushed to make it out to the stores before Sepultura (Mark II) could put something out first, and the haste shows. Many of the songs are repetitious and devolve into (half baked) World music jams. When listening to more recent Soulfly albums and Sepultura's Roots, it is obvious how slap dash this record is. Especially with "The Song Remains Insane" which is a sloppy and horrible retread of Sepultura's "Attitude" from the Roots album.

There are some saving graces though, as "Eye For and Eye" and "No Hope No Fear" are solid efforts, and the superb drumming of Roy Mayorga (Most recently filling behind drums for Sepultura and currently behind the kit for Stone Sour) hold a few of these songs together.

When compared to Soulfly's (Most recent) "Dark Ages", and Sepultura's "Dante XXI" this album falls flat. February 25, 2007

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this cd is terrible there are 2 songs that i will actually listen to again first commandment and eye for an eye besides those this album is terrible. Max is a great lead singer but hes to involved w/ that tribal garbage and he cant write a good song. most of the music in general is terrible. the musicians he plays w/ are crap. Max could be better February 5, 2006

Hmmmmm...

This isn't a terrible album, but when you look at the work of Max's work with Sepultura, this just doesn't really hit a nerve. There are some very good tracks here, but some of the tracks are just plain awful, and Bleed would have been so much better without Fred Durst (hey I don't hate Limp Biskit, I do like a handful of songs, but Fred just doesn't belong with Soulfly) but there things do get better for Soulfly as their music gets better as the albums go on... December 29, 2005

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