Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Blood Fire War Hate
2. Unleash
3. Paranoia
4. Warmageddon
5. Enemy Ghost
6. Rough
7. Fall Of The Sycophants
8. Doom
9. For Those About To Rot
10. Touching The Void
11. Soulfly VI
12. Mypath
13. Sailing On
14. Beautiful People

Disc 2:

1. Prophecy
2. Downstroy
3. Seek 'n' Strike
4. No Hope = No Fear
5. Jumpdafuckup/Bring It
6. Living Sacrifice
7. Mars
8. Brasil
9. No
10. LOTM
11. Porrada
12. Drums
13. Moses - Soulfly & Coyote
14. Frontlines
15. Back To The Primitive
16. Eye For An Eye

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41363 in Music
• Released on: 2008-07-28
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Special Edition, Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics, Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .27 pounds

CD Description
After nearly twenty-five years in the music business, Max Cavalera - formerly of underground metal titans Sepultura - shows no signs of slowing down. Following the reunion with his brother Igor on the Cavalera Conspiracy album earlier in 2008, his main concern Soulfly return with this, their sixth album and follow-up to 2005's 'Dark Ages'. Sounding, if possible, even more crushing and brutal than ever before, it sticks to the band's familiar template of thick, downtuned nu-metal riffs with a patina of ethnic percussion.

Customer Reviews

Great album let down by the usual problems
Soulfly has come a long, LONG way from the early days of over-simplified nu-metal, guest-crowded and contrived albums Soulfly, Primitive and 3. With Prophecy came a new line-up which has since proven stable, Conquer being the third outing for this particular band, after the critically praised return-to-thrash that was Dark Ages. Conquer definitely follows the Dark Ages mold, with most of the songs being out and out thrash numbers, with the exception of the clearly Sabbath-inspired "Touching The Void" and the surprisingly restrained and straight-up-rocky "Soulfly VI". Amidst ridiculous titles like "For Those About To Rot" and "Warmageddon" you'll find plenty of insane riffing, drumming, and illogical lyric-shouting. Keeping this line-up of the band around has proved a smart move, with Joe Nunez's drumming on top form as always (is there anything he can't play?) and guitar maestro Marc Rizzo adding plenty of layers to each and every song.

The reason is the best Soulfly album? Well, it isn't stuffed to the gills with unnecessary 'guest performers'. For Conquer, Max decided two would be enough, so a menacing Dave Vincent and an indistinguishable-from-Max Dave Peters do well to actually enhance the tracks they appear on. As far as musical interpolation goes, there are a few baffling reggae moments here and there, but they are few and far between and are mostly tagged onto the end of other songs. The album ends with the quite nice 'Soulfly VI', the end of which in particular is a great way to end an album, fading serenely away. As always the production and artwork (in particular) are top notch.

The only problem with the album is the same problem that has plagued previous Soulfly special editions. The bloody bonus tracks are awful. The excruciatingly titled "Mypath" feels like an insult after the beauty of the album's closer, and the Bad Brains and Marilyn Manson covers are interesting but hardly essential listening. Roadrunner would have been better off leaving the bonus tracks on the DVD, as they did with Opeth earlier this year (a fantastic idea). As for the DVD, the concert is excellent, well recorded and expertly filmed. As such, it is the first release-worthy full Soulfly show. As a freebie with an album, I feared the quality would be low, as with Cannibal Corpse's Kill DVD, but instead we are treated to an energetic set, well shot and well mixed. The only let down is that its from the Prophecy tour, and as such focuses on the band's first four albums, missing out on all but one Dark Ages tracks and crucially, no Conquer material.

So in all, it's hands down the most restrained Soulfly album, and their best for it. While the album is let down by Max's crap lyrics and the overall package by shoddy bonus tracks and an out of date concert, it's still worth picking up. A great album for summer headbanging sessions the world over. Oh, and it's better than Inflikted, too.

He never went away
The new album from soulfly is exactly what i expected from Max an album full of metal that most new bands would kill to be half as good as.

This follows the Dark Age blueprint more than any other album he has released since sepultura, it's heavy dark and does not feature to may guests the first guest features on the first track Dave Vincent of morbid angel and this track starts you in the right way all you want to do is head bang the next 6 tracks follow with brutality then you hit doom which is one of Max's more experimental songs the albums the next two songs kick ass and the last song is the now familiar self titled instumental.

the three bouns tracks are good the first two being a mellow vibe the last being the marilyn manson cover which is a more raw version of the song not as studio polished as the original. and you get a good live concert.

What you all want to know is if i liked sepultura will i like this well the answer is YES IT IS THRASHY AND HEAVY BUY IT.

All hail the king
All hail the king, baby. Max is back. When people thought this album's predecessor 'Dark Ages' was a return to form since their self titled debut, they were wrong. This is definitely the new king of the hill as far as Soulfly albums go. With less experimental breaks and more heavy, thrash and a bit more heavy, this is a must!!

Stand out tracks are 'Conquer', 'For Those About to Rot' and opener 'Blood Fire War Hate' it is relentless, classic Soulfly from start to finish.

Bring on their Bloodstock and mini tour next week, I sure as hell can't wait.