In spite of Soulfly's strong start early on, their follow-up releases have only been sparsely checkered with quality songs; yet with Omen, it's almost as though a younger, more crazed Max Cavalera slept like Rip Van Winkle and woke from his slumber to find himself playing with the modern/tribal influenced metal entity that is Soulfly. Indeed, it's surprising as hell, but he has finally returned to his roots (bloody roots) and released an ass-kicking, raging, thrashing album.
"Great Depression" kicks off with a blistering thrash riff that steamrolls forward like a train flying off the tracks before abruptly slowing down for a crunchy Hellhammer-esque riff during the chorus (but one of many of Omen's anthemic, fist-pumping, head-banging choruses, as with "Jeffrey Dahmer" and "Kingdom").
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(CD cover courtesy Roadrunner Records)
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