Soulfly
Metaldays - 2018
Text: Tobias Nilsson Photo: Lunah Lauridsen
After the extraordinarily good experience Soulfly had treated us to at Copenhell earlier in the summer, we were more than pleased to go see them again, now that they visited Metaldays.
“Let me see your hands of fire!”
- Max Cavalera (vocals/guitar)
This was in fact announced to be Soulfly’s final show of the tour, and so we could probably expect a little extra from their side, as is the custom of last shows.
Or not. Max Cavalera couldn’t keep up with the energy level he had set at Copenhell - maybe he was getting worn out from the tour. Still, it wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t as good as it had been at the previous show. He still had an intense spark, he just wasn’t moving as much.
This couldn’t be said for the rest of the band though, they were still on fire. I keep being impressed by Marc Rizzo and his energy, but this night really belonged to Zyon Cavalera - he was whipping up a storm behind the drums, and it laid the foundation for the entire gig.
Rizzo also delivered a real crowd-pleaser of a guitar solo, which incorporated snippets of Slayer classics like Raining Blood, Seasons In The Abyss, and more, in addition to his own shredding skill, and the fans ate it up!
“Are you having fun yet? Give it up for all the bands playing here!”
- Max Cavalera (vocals/guitar)
Little by little, the show managed to warm up Max Cavalera as well, and he showed that he had a good handle on the audience. What had started out as a good sized moshpit at the beginning of the show, grew with one wish into a much larger and wilder circlepit, and this was still happening in the span of the first couple of songs!
This trick was repeated several more times through the show, and after being left alone on stage, and playing a small part of Black Sabbath’s Iron Man, Max Cavalera invited the crowd to get their arms in the air and shout with him - a request that got a tremendous response from the Metaldays fans!
A show this wild, and again the final show of the tour, would not go quietly into the night, no, quite the contrary in fact. So for the great finale with Eye For An Eye, Max Cavalera bade us all sit down for the start of the song, and then collectively jump at a given cue. I saw this sort of thing from Slipknot first, but other bands have begun incorporating it into their own shows, and it’s still an impressive vision to behold a festival crowd of 10+K size do this - not to mention feeling the shaking ground that comes as an inevitable consequence!
Soulfly didn’t quite live up to the standard they themselves had set at the start of the summer, but they delivered a rocking show nonetheless, and we were well pleased with what they had to give.
Setlist (incomplete):
Prophecy
Fire
Porrade
Blood Fire War Hate
The Summoning
Solo (Rizzo)
Bleed
Babylon
Back To The Primitive
No
Eye For An Eye
“Let me see your hands of fire!”
- Max Cavalera (vocals/guitar)
This was in fact announced to be Soulfly’s final show of the tour, and so we could probably expect a little extra from their side, as is the custom of last shows.
Or not. Max Cavalera couldn’t keep up with the energy level he had set at Copenhell - maybe he was getting worn out from the tour. Still, it wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t as good as it had been at the previous show. He still had an intense spark, he just wasn’t moving as much.
This couldn’t be said for the rest of the band though, they were still on fire. I keep being impressed by Marc Rizzo and his energy, but this night really belonged to Zyon Cavalera - he was whipping up a storm behind the drums, and it laid the foundation for the entire gig.
Rizzo also delivered a real crowd-pleaser of a guitar solo, which incorporated snippets of Slayer classics like Raining Blood, Seasons In The Abyss, and more, in addition to his own shredding skill, and the fans ate it up!
“Are you having fun yet? Give it up for all the bands playing here!”
- Max Cavalera (vocals/guitar)
Little by little, the show managed to warm up Max Cavalera as well, and he showed that he had a good handle on the audience. What had started out as a good sized moshpit at the beginning of the show, grew with one wish into a much larger and wilder circlepit, and this was still happening in the span of the first couple of songs!
This trick was repeated several more times through the show, and after being left alone on stage, and playing a small part of Black Sabbath’s Iron Man, Max Cavalera invited the crowd to get their arms in the air and shout with him - a request that got a tremendous response from the Metaldays fans!
A show this wild, and again the final show of the tour, would not go quietly into the night, no, quite the contrary in fact. So for the great finale with Eye For An Eye, Max Cavalera bade us all sit down for the start of the song, and then collectively jump at a given cue. I saw this sort of thing from Slipknot first, but other bands have begun incorporating it into their own shows, and it’s still an impressive vision to behold a festival crowd of 10+K size do this - not to mention feeling the shaking ground that comes as an inevitable consequence!
Soulfly didn’t quite live up to the standard they themselves had set at the start of the summer, but they delivered a rocking show nonetheless, and we were well pleased with what they had to give.
Setlist (incomplete):
Prophecy
Fire
Porrade
Blood Fire War Hate
The Summoning
Solo (Rizzo)
Bleed
Babylon
Back To The Primitive
No
Eye For An Eye
Soulfly
