Soulfly Share 360 Degree Video For Title Track Of New Album 'Ritual'
Friday, 31 August 2018
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Char Tupper
Soulfly have shared a 360 degree video for the title track of their new album.
'Ritual' is due out on October 19 through Nuclear Blast and features guest appearances from Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe and Immolation’s Ross Dolan. It follows up 2015's 'Archangel'.
Vocalist and guitarist Max Cavalera said:
"This song took a long time and almost didn't make the record. We recorded it as an instrumental and ran out of time in the studio. We ended up having to fly Josh Wilbur (producer) out to my house to finish the vocals. He kept on telling me he wanted ‘more of that tribal shit', like some of the stuff on our first record and 'Primitive'. We ended up creating the chorus on the spot and layering something like 12 or 16 tracks of chanting for it. After we heard it and were listening back, we got really excited and were high-fiving each other. Josh just turned to me and said that that was what he wanted to hear as a fan, and he was really happy to get that out of me. We both knew it was a new SOULFLY classic for the ages and had to be the album opener. I'm really proud of this song and I think old-school fans of my work are going to love it."
Head below to listen to the tribal cut, which is face meltingly heavy, and, as Cavalera explains above, recalls their earlier releases.
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