Their Roadrunner-issued self-titled debut album was released in the spring of 1998, and eventually went gold. Using music as therapy to overcome his depression, Cavalera put together a band that included Roy "Rata" Mayorga on drums (ex-Thorn) and Jackson Bandeira on second guitar (ex-Chico Science), while former Sepultura roadie Marcello D. Besides leaving one of the most popular heavy metal bands in the world, which he'd co-founded in the early '80s, he also had to deal with the death of his best friend and stepson Dana Wells. Upon his exit from Sepultura in late 1996, Cavalera almost automatically set out to form his next musical endeavor. Throughout the group's two decade run, there have been multiple personnel shifts, with Cavalera being the only constant member. The band's eponymous 1998 debut was certified gold, and paved the way for subsequent high-end offerings like Prophecy (2004), Conquer (2008), and Archangel (2015), all of which garnered both critical and commercial acclaim.
Emerging in the late '90s, Soulfly's sonic attack is built on a foundation of multiple subgenres of metal and worldbeat, drawing heavily from groove, thrash and nu-metal, and Brazilian tribal music. Max Cavalera has been delivering punishing, neck-snapping riffs since the 1980s, first as a founding member of influential Brazilian thrash legends Sepultura, and later as the ringleader for the more cerebral, yet similarly punitive Soulfly.
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