Watch: SOULFLY Performs New Music ‘Favela Dystopia’ From Upcoming Album

SOULFLY performed a brand new music known as “Favela Dystopia” stay for the primary time on July 8 at Maimunarnika in Sofia, Bulgaria and once more on July 10 at Dorćol Platz in Belgrade, Serbia. Fan-filmed video of the Belgrade efficiency of the observe might be seen beneath.

“Favela Dystopia” is anticipated to seem on SOULFLY‘s upcoming follow-up to 2022’s “Totem” album, tentatively due in late 2025 or early 2026.

In a latest interview with MetalUnderground.com, SOULFLY frontman Max Cavalera spoke about his plans for the band’s subsequent LP. He mentioned: “We’re engaged on the brand new report proper now. It is going good, man. We’re taking our time to do it proper. We’re within the strategy of ending the recordings proper now, after which we’re gonna begin getting stuff combined and discovering the songs which might be gonna go on all of the socials, Spotify and all that jive. However, yeah, I am very pleased with the report.”

Relating to the musical path of the brand new SOULFLY materials, Max mentioned: “The report, it is cool. It feels to me [like it] has the adventurous spirit of the primary report [1998’s ‘Soulfly’]. Sonically, it is fairly completely different from the primary report — it is extra intricate and possibly even heavier, heavier grooves. However when it comes to spirit and angle, it is much like the primary report, which I feel is cool that I received to determine a approach to put my thoughts again at the moment and what made me create that report and use it once more on a brand new report. It is fairly enjoyable. It is form of laborious to do, however I feel it was an thrilling factor to deal with. It was form of, like, ‘Let’s strive to do that. Let’s examine if you need to use your first album as in some way some form of inspiration on your thirteenth report. [Laughs] And that was nice, man. I like that. I like that form of vibe that the report has.”

Cavalera continued: “That is the cool factor about this report. It is form of, in a approach, a return to what me and followers of SOULFLY fell in love with SOULFLY for. After which all through the years, most of the different information had a whole lot of completely different vibes in it. A few of them went extra thrashy with stuff like ‘Darkish Ages’ [2005], ‘Omen’ [2010], ‘Conquer’ [2008]. So, to me, making a report that sonically is impressed by the very first thing that you just did as a band, it was a problem — there is a problem in that — ‘trigger it is simpler mentioned than executed. As a result of I do not wanna simply copy that first report both. There isn’t any level in doing that. I am simply utilizing it as inspiration. It is actually simply full on for steel inspiration. The songs [themselves], they’re gonna have their very own persona and their very own vibe. However, yeah, it is popping out fairly attention-grabbing. I am excited to listen to what the followers are gonna take into consideration this one.”

Requested a couple of potential launch date for the brand new SOULFLY album, Max mentioned: “Proper now I feel we’re taking a look at October. That is they’re speaking about. And we do have a European tour that begins in June. It goes from June to late July. We’re gonna be taking part in one or two songs of the brand new report on that tour, which I feel is nice. Anytime I had an opportunity to do this, it has been nice. I keep in mind taking part in ‘Primitive’ [the title track of SOULFLY‘s second album, which came out in 2000] on the primary report tour, as a result of I wrote ‘Primitive’ on the identical time I wrote the primary SOULFLY report. I simply could not slot in. There was too many songs, and I used to be, like, ‘All proper. Fuck it. I do not want one other music on this report.’ However then we went on tour, and I received an opportunity to play the music ‘Primitive’ stay earlier than the ‘Primitive’ report got here out, so that individuals received a style of the second report developing. So it is form of related form of factor — folks get a style of this album a little bit bit earlier than. Particularly this point in time with the Web, folks gonna get it on YouTube, they’re gonna watch it, they usually’re gonna really feel the report earlier than October, at the least.”

This previous Could, SOULFLY recruited Chase Bryant (WARBRINGER) to play bass on the band’s European tour, which kicked off on June 7 on the South Of Heaven pageant in Maastricht, Netherlands.

A month earlier, SOULFLY parted methods with the band’s longtime bassist Mike Leon.

Leon, previously of HAVOK, joined SOULFLY in September 2015 because the alternative for STATIC-X bassist Tony Campos, who left SOULFLY in Could of that yr.

“Totem” got here out in August 2022 through Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to 2018’s “Ritual” was recorded at Platinum Underground in Mesa, Arizona by John Aquilino and Arthur Rizk with help from John Powers. Produced by Max Cavalera alongside Arthur Rizk (KREATOR, MUNICIPAL WASTE, CODE ORANGE),the LP boasts visitor appearances from John Powers (ETERNAL CHAMPION),Chris Ulsh (POWER TRIP),and John Tardy (OBITUARY). Rizk was additionally chargeable for taking part in lead guitar on the report. The paintings for the album was created by James Bousema.

In August 2021, SOULFLY parted methods with longtime guitarist Marc Rizzo as a consequence of private variations. FEAR FACTORY‘s Dino Cazares performed guitar for SOULFLY on the band’s 2021 and 2022 run of reveals.

Guitarist Mike DeLeon has been touring with SOULFLY for greater than two years. Previous to hooking up with SOULFLY, DeLeon had been a member of PANTERA singer Philip Anselmo‘s solo band PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS, which he joined in 2015 because the alternative for Marzi Montazeri. Extra not too long ago, Mike crammed in for Zakk Wylde on the first rehearsal for the autumn 2022 PANTERA reveals.

In a November 2024 interview with Dave Rumbler of Metallic-Roos, Max, who turned 55 years outdated in August 2024, mentioned that he has no plans of slowing down within the coming years. “I used to be placed on this planet to do that, and that is all I wanna do,” he mentioned. “It is all I understand how to do and it is all I wanna do… After all, we alter as folks as we grow old, however I feel there’s some issues in me, they’re the identical as they had been once I was 15 years outdated — my ardour for steel, how I really feel about happening the stage and the goosebumps, the thrill is sort of a drug. You may’t actually get that wherever else besides on the stage. And people issues do not change. And I like that.

“To me, I am at all times wanting ahead to no matter tour we’re doing, no matter album we’re making,” he continued. “There are challenges, however on the identical time, they’re nice life alternatives. And I stay life for the second. I am not a kind of guys that — I do not stay considering 10 years from now. I stay for proper now for this, ‘trigger I do not know what’s 10 years from now. I stay the second, and within the second, that is what is going on on proper now. I seize it with each fingers, man, and revel in. And I attempt to educate that to my children — benefit from the second. It is an awesome factor. It is good to be alive. It is good to share this sense with folks round you. It is unimaginable. It is an unimaginable factor.”