Album Review: Conquer (Soulfly)

 is the sixth Soulfly album released during the 10-year anniversary of their. Soulfly had released their darkest album at the time — . Conquer showcases that Soulfly brings re-enlightenment, albeit slightly.

"" is repetitive both musically and lyrically, especially with title chanted over and over. Though it is not a bad song as repetitive songs don't bother me. The music will be unleashed in "", which has Pantera-like riffs and spacey experimental section. "" has a weird buzzing sound in the beginning then the song gets paranoid with 'paranoia' repeated eight times in a row. "" has enticing choruses and similar makeup as "" by Sepultura. "" has one of the better verses on this album with -like speed, and the end has interestingly -like tones. "" has a good mix of melody, thrash, and rhythm. The song references City of the Dead, nickname for Cairo, Egypt. Wait, a portion of this song was even recorded in the City of the Dead, as heard in the end with tribal drums and flute-like instrument called kora. Scream, were doom, because "" came on. The beginning is a copy of the beginning of Metallica song "", before getting to forceful and sweary lyrics. Soulfly has only a few doom metal songs, and some bands have a lot of them, such as and. For Soulfly, "" is just one of them. The title is inspired from the Black Sabbath song "". It is one of the slowest songs by Soulfly. Then we go into the light and feel the breeze in "". This song was actually recorded from a swamp in Florida, which is a kind of an environment. The song gives me and many other listeners a feeling of being in a pleasant nature under daylight with sun in the sky. Oh, there is slight tinge of metal in this instrumental. Rather than tribally like in earlier instrumentals, "Soulfly VI" has elements resembling modern rock (alternative of the 90s and early 2000s). Then we get to three bonus tracks. "", which is plain metal carving the path into "", which has acoustic after 90 seconds of heaviness. Then there's "", which is Marilyn Manson cover with few differences. Of the two, I like Marilyn Manson version better.

Conquer is an album that touches on certain aspects of music, like instrumentation, genres not commonly used in Soulfly such as doom in "Touching the Void", and progressive/alternative rock in "Soulfly VI", and makeup. The kind of music you hear is Conquer and your brain interprets it.

6.9/10