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On march 12 2012 the new by entitled Enslaved saw the light of day world- wide, it is the eighth studio album by Soulfly and it also marks the fifteenth anniversary of the band. Hallowed was given the privilege to speak with a living metal legend but also the main man of the band Soulfly. Hallowed PDF-article Hallowed PDF-article Design by Daniel Källmalm Design by Daniel Källmalm http://www.soulfly.com

written by daniel källmalm Max it is another step in the ca- extreme. The single like and helps Slavery & Aggression taken. In Max’s words it might be photos: soulfly press reer of Soulfly and a great album was a good introduction as to to create this more extreme sound In the chapter before we were something of a commercial sui- published on 21/3-2012 for them to have out, although for how the album would sound ex- and he also points out that these looking at excited remarks and cide on one hand but on the other some this newfound aggression plains Max and he also explains guys are the perfect members to such but what about the feedback hand it takes the band in a new, A lot has happened over the and brutality might come as a bit that the album is getting a good have in the band at the moment. from the world outside the band, more extreme direction. years with Soulfly but lets first fo- of a surprise. buzz around the internet and A famous quote is from one of how has the feedback been from - I really don’t give a shit about cus on the newest addition to the - I think it’s quite unexpected Max thinks that even with this these new guys, David Kinkade those who have heard anything getting the big radio song or some history of this band, the album for I think not many people did new and brutalised sound the is that ”Enslaved” is like ”Arise” from the album? big hit song, that stuff I don’t care called ”Enslaved” which seems expect our eight album to be so fans are going to like the album. on Crack which is a quote that - It’s been great man, the World for, to me it is better to be extreme to have the headlines aggressive aggressive and so extreme, it co- - Yeah, the new musicians are has been circulating the web for Scum video came out on the inter- and go into a more extreme mode and more extreme if we are to mes with many real killer death awesome because they give new some time now and it is a quote net and many people saw it and and enjoy the music. I love the trust Max Cavalera. metal influences and it’s so- blood to the band, we needed a Max does not completely agree liked it, it is a pretty crazy video fire of the music and the aggres- - It is a really exciting record, mething I have wanted to do for change and I didn’t want to make with as he thinks ”Enslaved” is like a little movie with none of sion and the extremity of it, I feel it is more extreme than the other a long time. another record like ”Omen” its own album just like ”Arise” is. the band members on the video, great when I play the stuff from records, it got more death me- Much of this aggressive sound because it was already done, I - I think ”Enslaved” is it’s own it was like a little short film with Enslaved and it is going to be a tal sound in the production, it is is down to the introduction of the wanted something different and record, it does not sound like this guy in jail and all these crazy great live performance for us to more brutal and aggressive and new musicians in David Kinkade ”Enslaved” is totally different ”Arise”, I think it is more death things happening to the world play it live. I’m very excited. and on drums and from ”Omen” as it is much more metal than ”Arise”, it’s got more like JFK, Auschwitz and the final And this newfound aggression It is an album with cool guests bass. David Kinkade’s more ex- extreme and much more death roots. It is maybe battle between antichrist and Je- lends itself well to the concept like from DevilDri- treme drumming with blastbeats metal sounding. more extreme than ”Arise” even, sus and all these really cool hard- of the album which is slavery in ver and Travis Ryan from Cattle and all the cool drum stuff that More extreme seems to be the he really likes the record and I core scenes on the video. most of its form, new and old. Decapitation that does vocals, he can do has made it possible word of the day during this in- think that it was an excited com- They have also gotten a lot of Already the cover artwork with Max also worked with his kids for Max to create ”Enslaved” the terview, I think that it would not ment that he made when we were good feedback according to Max a guy in a torture mask used in on one of the tracks, the ending way he envisioned it along with be any chance of missing that and making the record. and many seems to like the new the days of slavery bear witness Revengeance which we will get the more extreme bass of Campos Max adds that thanks to the new direction into the more aggressi- of this theme, the mask is a metal back to later on. According to it has gone more aggressive and members’ backgrounds in bands ve and extreme that the band has box that encapsulates the bearers

Hallowed PDF-article 3 4 Hallowed PDF-article Design by Daniel Källmalm Design by Daniel Källmalm lends itself to finding heavier world it would seem. murdered in 1996, Max and his ways to express oneself. - I think that’s cool because it three sons wrote their own parts - I thought it would be very gre- keeps the record original and dif- of the song and Max, Ritchie and at and original to touch on that ferent from everything else out Igor sung on this track which has subject. It is also very hardcore, there. a raw, almost live kind of sound. you can really play heavy music And speaking of original, that - recorded everybody live around this subject because it’s is something that Max enjoys and so it is like everybody is play- really a kind of heavy subject. being and he is also proud to be ing together like we were playing Slavery is something heavy that touching upon a subject that not live and that gave the song some happened, that still happens in many have touched in the musi- really raw feeling to it and when the world right now and you can cal world before. I heard it back I really liked and I do some really heavy riffs and - I think creativity is important decided to make the song be the political lyrics about slavery. in a musician’s life and if you get last song on the record. I am very - I thought it would be very gre- stuck doing the same thing over proud that I got to work with my at and original to touch on that and over you get boring and kids, having the Cavalera family subject. It is also very hardcore, don’t go further in pursuing your in the studio doing the song with you can really play heavy music career and I think in order to sur- me was a great moment in my life head completely and according the Roman empire and slavery in about slavery while the other around this subject because it’s vive you have to let your creativi- and I really enjoy that, so it was a to Max it is aggressive and crazy the Roman Empire and then you half subsequently is not and that really a kind of heavy subject. ty take over and try to be original great day in the studio. looking. have Treachery, American Steel is something that creates a dyna- Slavery is something heavy that as much as you can. It was a difficult album Max ex- - The lyrics in the songs are dif- which are really not much about mic feel to the album, It’s kind of happened, that still happens in plains but it was worth it and he ferent from each others, we have slavery but goes a bit off the to- cool to have these different vibes the world right now and you can Family affairs is proud of the album which he Resistance, the first one, the intro, pic of slavery and Plata O Plomo is going on in the same record, says do some really heavy riffs and The ending song Revengeance is thinks has songs that will stand a poem from a slave that I found about Pablo Escobar which con- Max. political lyrics about slavery. a song where Max worked along the test of time, World Scum, Gla- in a slavery book then we move nects to slavery of all the people Not many metal bands, if any, Max also says that it surprised with his sons, a song about venge- diator and Redemption of Man by into World Scum which is about a working for him doing his drugs touches upon the subject of sla- him that not many other bands ance, about justice, and it is a re- God are the tracks that Max men- hundred years of fucked up shit and were like slaves of Pablo Es- very and that is something that has done on the concept ally heavy tune that Max thinks tions as being tracks that will we’ve done to the world. Then we cobar. appealed to Max along with the of Slavery, maybe some blues turned out great. It is a song for stand strong even in the face of have Gladiator and Legions about About half of the album is heavy nature of the subject which bands has but none in the metal their brother Dana Wells who was time.

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- So it was difficult to make but the strongest lineups in their ca- This time has yielded eight stu- where they can take their music joy going and meeting the fans and all of that he explains that he worth it now that it is finally done reer so far. dio albums, all of which has char- to their fans, something that Max and playing live, it is all part of it. is a bit of an old-school kind of and finished I feel very proud of - It has been great man, it’s been ted in the US and also in many says he enjoys and he also says He does however not use any guy and new technologies does it and really can’t wait for the great fifteen years in metal and other nations, they have one gold that he interacts quite a bit with of the new technologies like face- interest him a bit even though he fans to hear it and to get the feed- Soulfly and putting Soulfly on certification in the US and ten the fans as well, signing stuff, book and explains that he is a bit doesn’t really get caught up in back from them because they are the map in the metal world and members have been part of the participating in photos and all of of a cave man but the other guys them. Which is why you faceboo- who I play the music for anyway. sharing that with the fans. We lineup and added to that there that. in the band are more into this kers who reads our stuff should And even if Max doesn’t know did some great stuff with musi- are countless guests and a few - We really enjoy the time with kind of thing. not be that surprised not to find if ”Enslaved” is their best work to cians, friends of ours, some stuff touring members. And it is a time them so it is great to see them and - David, Tony and Mark all got Max Cavalera amongst the ranks date he holds it as one of the five with of and that Max is as he states both ho- it is really, really cool that such their facebooks and whatnot and of potential friends for your face- best albums of his career which Cory from Slipknot and many noured and proud of. an amount of people around the all those things that they do, go book profile. His focus is on the would say quite a lot about the al- other great musicians that have world like Soulfly and I feel very on to see the comments and talk music and be sure to check out bum for those knowing him and collaborated with Soulfly making Tour & Ending happy about this and if I can give to people, not sure exactly what the band’s website to know when his career. And as already said Soulfly’s career into what it is. I The band is going on tour now some minutes of my time to them they are but I see them on the they are coming to a place near earlier in the text it is an album also feel that it has been a great for a while, starting in Mexico it is really great and for them it is computer all the time. you. Their album ”Enslaved” is that marks the fifteenth annivers- journey with different musici- then touring the North Americas cool that they get to meet me and Max himself does not own a out now, it is more extreme and ary of the band, and about those ans, a lot of different people have before heading over to Europe I get to sign their stuff and take a computer and neither does he more aggressive than anything years there is a lot to say with played in Soulfly, have created for both a European tour and also picture with them it is no big deal have a cellphone but he does have you have heard from Soulfly be- many collaborations with known this music with me and I feel very some summer festivals during at all and it means so much for a CD-player where he plays his fore, be sure to check it out and musicians, but there is also the honoured to have played with their European stay. It is going to them so it is great that we have compact discs which he enjoys in check our review which we will present where Soulfly has one of them. be a year of touring for the band this relationship and I really en- full, with the booklet, the pictures publish within the next few days.

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