Soulfly
Album: Omen
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Label: Roadrunner Records

Track Listing
01. Bloodbath & Beyond
02. Rise of the Fallen (featuring Greg Puciato of The Dillinger Escape Plan)
03. Great Depression
04. Lethal Injection (featuring Tommy Victor of Prong)
05. Kingdom
06. Jeffery Dahmer
07. Off With Their Heads
08. Vulture Culture
09. Mega-Doom
10. Counter Sabotage
11. Soulfly VII

Reviewer: Eric

Oh boy Soulfly has taken something old and turned it into garbage. I hate the new album from Max Cavalera and Soulfly bandmates. How the fuck can you take something that is good and ruin in? Is it because the album is entitled Omen? Wow that would be a bad excuse. I think the reason this album stinks so much is the fact you can hear some nu-metal inside, a genre that never really worked too well when placed on a Soulfly album.

Last album Soulfly tried to use the whole nu-metal thing was 2000s Primitive. I will admit that was the album where I started to get into the band and it wasn’t for the sound, Roadrunner Records just shoved that thing down metal fans throats so bad you were gagging up Primitive chunks for weeks. That album was everything Cavalera wasn’t, at least I thought. I mean shit on a bear’s lunch, that album featured nearly the entire Roadrunner rooster on it in some shape or form. And now we have to be remembered of that shit, but this time we have Cavelera to thank and no one else.

Omen is what seventh album? Already? Wow time sure does fly when you have a new Soulfly album nearly every other year. Max Cavalera just sounds tired on this whole album. His vocals seem too bland, he isn’t going above and beyond like he normally does and the tracks are just down right boring after the first minute or so. Omen is a disaster and I think it stands out as the worst release from Soulfly.

I really don’t know why Tommy Victor of Prong and Greg Puciato of The Dillinger Escape Plan made appearances on this record. Maybe it was to get the message across that Max Cavalera is still pissed about something, even after making the super dark Dar Ages album in 2005. That has got to be it…it has to be.

On the bright side Marc Rizzo has some pretty brilliant guitar parts on this album. That is one thing you know you’ll be getting from a Soulfly album when Rizzo is around. His technique is really good for metal music and even when the paper says to play shitty nu-metal Rizzo still finds away to make some of the songs sound good. Thank you Marc Rizzo, you are the shinning all-star on Omen.

Final Verdict
The seventh album from Soulfly is proof that some bands need to be taken to the back and put down. I know Max Cavelera can do better; maybe a bigger break in-between albums would help. Until that happens though try to remember the good times Soulfly has had and that means staying away from Omen.

Rating
6 out of 10

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