SOULFLY has set “Ritual” as the title of its new album, tentatively due in October via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to 2015’s “Archangel” was recorded with producer Josh Wilbur, who has previously worked with LAMB OF GOD, GOJIRA and ALL THAT REMAINS, among others.
Fan-filmed video footage of SOULFLY performing a new song called “The Summoning”, which will appear on “Ritual”, on June 28 in Zwolle, Netherlands can be seen below. Also available is a new video interview with SOULFLY leader Max Cavalera, conducted by Agoraphobic News on July 4 in Novi Sad, Serbia.
Max recently told PureGrainAudio about “Ritual”: “I know musicians [always] say their new record is their favorite, but [this new] SOULFLY
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Max told Jack Antonio that the new SOULFLY album would include “a song about a Navajo murder that happened on a Navajo reservation — the police killed this young girl and I was really intrigued with the whole story and we made a song out of it,” he said.
As for the disc’s musical direction, Max said that it has “a little bit of a ‘Chaos A.D.’ [SEPULTURA] kind of feeling to it — that kind of groove, but also [with elements of] thrash. It’s a contemporary record — it feels like it’s done right now. I’m really stoked on it. I think it does kind of have that classic ‘Chaos A.D.’ feeling to it, which is great; I think it’s really cool to have that kind of feeling on the record.”
Max also praised his SOULFLY bandmates’ contributions to the new album, saying: “Marc Rizzo [SOULFLY guitarist] is doing some amazing guitar stuff. All the players — Zyon [Cavalera, Max‘s son and SOULFLY drummer] did a great job on the drums. I tried really hard to have different topics and different lyrics, so my vocals are a bit different and I’m touching different subjects on the album. So all that together makes it into something special.”
Fonte: Blabbermouth.net