SOULFLY - 3

August 8, 2002, 21 years ago

(Roadrunner)

Martin Popoff

Rating: 8.0

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SOULFLY - 3

Ah yes, Max is up to his old tricks, fighting the power, running words together, uniting the World Cup nations under one God... But the thing we all can appreciate most is that he's rocking out, somewhere between the four guiding light principles of Chaos A.D.-to-Roots-era Seps, to Soulfly, to metalized hardcore circa Hatebreed, to a chicken and egg sort of nu-metal, Max and Ross and Korn being the three-egg omelette that started it all on the first plate. Max produces the album himself, and the result is a dry-lung no-nonsense metal slam, percussively propelled by a returning Roy Mayorga, also an innovator in the way nu-metal drumming has evolved, one crash cymbal under groove. Dope-smoked out in the jungle moments kick us back every once in a while, but the lasting impression is one of vicious hollering and world-beating hardcore riffs, 3 being a call to arms with tons of mashing metal, steamrolling beats and frankly, dozens of Sepultura postures, which is just fine by me. The soundtrack to a sound thrashing at the hands of rural Mexican police, 3 will leave your body looking like a black and blue map of the third world.



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