I really don't hear much old Sep in Soulfly. It sounds mostly like the Nu-Metalish Roots album. Loved them on their first US tour though since half the stuff they played was Sepultura.
I have been a Sepultura fan since Beneath The Remains came out when i was in High School. I was pissed when Chaos AD came out at the time because it was not extreme thrash metal like their previous albums. It was going in a new direction. I hated the Roots album with a passion, made Chaos AD seem like hardcore thrash. Then Max quit and started Soulfly. When I first heard their debut album I wasn't sure about it. There was even a song with Fred Durst rapping on it. I certainly wasn't down for that. But then I went to see Iron Maiden play in 2000, the first show they played with Bruce Dickinson back on vocals. Soulfly opened up. They were a newer band and played most of that first Soulfly album. I was able to see that Max was really into it and the tribal vibe was actually pretty cool. I bought the album and it slowly started to creep up on me. There was a lot of tribal influence but it was more aggressive and unique than the over produced Roots album. After all was said and done I was a huge fan of this first album and still am just had to open up and let it in.
Then Prophecy came out.. TERRIBLE album. This was the "nu metal' influence album. I still can only listen to a few songs off of it without wanting to change them. The song Terrorist with Tom Araya from Slayer is pretty good. But other than that a total flop.
Soulfly III came out and started getting heavyer, less nu metal influence. Definitely a step in the right direction.
Prophecy came out and had some awesome songs on it. The song Prophcy is great as well as about 1/2 of the songs on the album.
Then comes Dark Ages which was like Arise Sepultura. For all the poeople that think of Soulfly as this "Nu Metal" band go listen to Dark Ages. Frontlines sounds like Arise. This album is heavy, fast and brutal. ZERO Nu Metal influence on this album.
Conquer comes out and is the heaviest album they have done, again brutally heavy and not one ounce of Nu Metal influence,
Now comes their latest album OMEN. This album is borderline Death Metal. Not sure how anyone could possibly confuse any of these songs as Nu Metal. I am not a huge fan of it, but it is definetley NOT Nu metal or even close to it. I would rather them go back and do something more like their first album.
SO to people who say Soulfy is "NU Metal" that tells me that they actually really never have even listened to them outside of maybe the first and second album.
Tell me this is Nu Metal or doesn't sound anything like old Seputlura:
None the less not trying to make you like them at all. Just trying to defend them a bit as I have had the good fortune of becoming friends with these guys on a personal level and know they have zero nu metal in mind when making music these days
