Enslaved

Anyone even vaguely familiar with Soulfly will probably know the drill by this point in the band's career, and indeed, those who have been following along over the years will be glad to know that the main ingredients remain on their eighth full-length: textbook nu-metal riffs, furiously stringent drumming and lyrical themes addressing spirituality, war, and other well-worn topics – all accompanied by ex-Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera's notoriously throaty roar, of course.

All these years later and SOULFY still brings it proper with the kind of tribal-infused thrashing aggression and groove that could only be connected to one man, guitarist/vocalist Max Cavalera. He wasn't the only reason SEPULTURA blazed trails, as evidenced by the more than respectable catalogue of...

Soulfly has been Max Cavalera's bully pulpit for 15 years now, and with very few exceptions, he hasn't wasted it.