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Soulfly – Conquer - added - August 6th, 2008
Reviewer: Ruben Mosqueda


5/5

 

Who would have thought that by the end of summer of 2008 we’d have not one but two Max Cavalera recordings. Of course the first being the album Inflikted with his brother Iggor and the Cavalera Conspiracy and the hot off the presses Soulfly’s Conquer. As expected, like with previous Soulfly efforts there are guests featured on Conquer. Max brought in Morbid Angel singer and bassist David Vincent and Throwdown’s David Peters in to provide additional vocals. Max has been known to take a voyages across different parts of the world for inspiration and the bulk of the material featured on this recording have been inspired by his trip to Egypt. Like past Soulfly albums Conquer is an eclectic mix of thrash metal, massive tribal rhythms, sinister and angst ridden songs. While I haven’t been a huge fan of Soulfly in the past but I felt that on Dark Ages Max had righted the ship. Conquer is on par with Dark Ages and with his Cavalera Conspiracy album Inflikted.  Conquer could be album of the year as far as I’m concerned but we’ll have to wait to see what’s yet to come. The standout tracks (and it was hard picking just two) are the one, two punch of the album’s opening tracks; “Blood Fire War Hate” and “Unleash.” Lightning has struck twice for Max in 2008 I’ll look back at this year and have fond memories of the great metal that he’s given us.

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