Soulfly Release Title-Track From New Album Ritual

Soulfly have dropped a brand-new single, Ritual, ahead of the release of the album of the same name.

"This song took a long time and almost didn't make the record," explains frontman Max Cavalera. "We recorded it as an instrumental and ran out of time in the studio. We ended up having to fly Josh Wilbur [producer] out to my house to finish the vocals. He kept on telling me he wanted ‘more of that tribal shit', like some of the stuff on our first record and Primitive. We ended up creating the chorus on the spot and layering something like 12 or 16 tracks of chanting for it. After we heard it and were listening back, we got really excited and were high-fiving each other. Josh just turned to me and said that that was what he wanted to hear as a fan, and he was really happy to get that out of me. We both knew it was a new Soulfly classic for the ages and had to be the album opener. I'm really proud of this song and I think old-school fans of my work are going to love it."

The band's forthcoming full-length will drop on October 19 via Nuclear Blast. Check out Ritual below:

The tracklist for Ritual is as follows:

1. Ritual
2. Dead Behind The Eyes (feat. Randy Blythe)
3. The Summoning
4. Evil Empowered
5. Under Rapture (feat. Ross Dolan)
6. Demonized
7. Blood On The Street
8. Bite The Bullet
9. Feedback!
10. Soulfly XI