HARD NOISE: SOULFLY // Return To The Studio, And Roots (Kinda)

Brazilian metal titans Soulfly are returning to the studio next January, hinting they may return to a Latin tribal “Roots” style concept.

The album will follow-up 2015’s Archangel and be slated for release some time in 2018 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment.

Frontman Max Cavalera has selected Josh Wilbur as producer, working with him on 2014’s Killer Be Killed supergroup album.

In an interview with Backstage Axxess, Cavalera says: “I’m actually writing right now. I’m collecting the riffs right now and getting the ideas.” He went on: “I’m excited, because I think the album will have a little bit of a return to some tribal sounds that I haven’t done since Prophecy. So that’ll be cool, to return to some of that. And then the rest of the album will be a continuation of Archangel; a lot of people like Archangel. And, of course, I think that it will be also somehow influenced by Psychosis, ’cause Psychosis was such a cool record that I’m sure that somewhere in the Soulfly record we’ll have the influence of that on top of it too. So it’ll be a really cool record to work on.”

In another interview with the No Limits Music Show, Max also says the new album will be “deeply tribal, very spiritual. There’s a concept. I cannot tell you much about it, ’cause it’s kind of a surprise. But there is a concept behind the record, and I have not done a record with a concept like this since Roots. So this one has got the same kind of feeling that Roots has.”

Max and brother Iggor (Sepultura) were in Australia the past October celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Roots album, billed as Return to Roots.

The pair are touring Europe through December with Overkill, Insomnium, and Deserted Fear.