Soulfly (Album)
Occupation
- Max Cavalera - vocals, guitar, berimbau
- Jackson Bandeira - Guitar
- Marcello Dias - Bass
- Roy Mayorga - drums, percussion
Soulfly is the debut album by the metal band Soulfly. It was released in April 1998 on Roadrunner Records.
Formation and style
After the separation of Sepultura it was Max Cavalera, who published with Soulfly, first, a new album. His rival former bandmates moved to with Against the fall of 1998. The album Soulfly emerged in the Indigo Ranch Studios, Malibu, California, producer Ross Robinson was. Cavalera was able to gather a large number of guest musicians: In addition to Deftones singer Chino Moreno was involved almost the entire band Fear Factory, also are Fred Durst and DJ Lethal of Limp Bizkit and some other guests to hear. Not least, Limp Bizkit and Moreno made for some influences from the Nu Metal. Otherwise, the disk is heavily influenced by the album Roots by Sepultura: " Who would not like Roots, this disc does not even listen ," said Cavalera to album
Reception
January Jaedike rated Soulflys debut in the magazine Rock Hard with 7.5 out of ten and called the album good, but it is not a " high flyer ", " girlfriends that last Sepultura outputs are to Soulfly but their real pleasure. It creaks, dröhnschrammelt and tribalt that each traditional Thrasher drop the last hair from the bulb in frustration. But as I said, are not the target audience here anyway. "