SOULFLY bassist Bobby Burns recently spoke with Andy Whittle at UK-based Noise Addiction. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

Q: Do you have much creative input in the writing process yourself, or is it something that's mainly left to Max (Cavalera)?

Bobby: "Yes. We'll always meet up at the studio with Max. We never practice or jam or anything; we fly out to Europe or America or wherever and start to tour. We make a record the same way. We meet up at the studio, Max will come in with about 4-5 CDs of jams and rough demos of songs and we'll go through them and be like, 'Yeah, that one's cool, this one's cool, we'll do that there,' and we all just start jamming in a room. We all have the freedom to do our own thing; Marc (Rizzo) gets to play his guitar parts, I get to play my bass parts.

Q: How do you describe the sound of the new album? Is it a natural progression from previous material or is it completely different?

Bobby: "It's definitely a natural thing. It blows my mind, I think 'us' as a band finally came into form on the Dark Ages record, because at the end of Prophecy we were touring a lot and still getting to know each other. When we went in to do the Dark Ages record, we kind of took off with songs like 'Frontlines' with some faster and heavier and grooves with less experimental bongo playing and shit. I think over the years that we've played together; it's now just one of those things where we nod at each other and just 'get it.'"

Q: Who would you say the main influences of the Soulfly sound are?

Bobby: "Shit. That’s where it comes down to those four individual people thing, everybody would have SUCH a crazy answer, me, Mark, Max and Joe. It’s hard to tell what the fuck those guys would say."

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In the clip below, SOULFLY guitarist Marc Rizzo talks about recording his 4th studio album with the band - and 5th with frontman Max Cavalera.

Marc says, "I grew up listening to SEPULTURA and Soulfly, I just love his style of writing and I've been a huge fan of his ever since I was a little kid, so it's a trip to be in a band with him and be part of making the records I've been part of with him."

See what else he had to say about the making of Omen, the band's extensive European tour and much more. And also check out the band's official video for lead single 'Rise Of The Fallen' featuring THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN's Greg Puciato trading vocals with Max, also below.