Roadrunner
2002
3
About This Album
After nearly two decades of making progressively experimental and powerful heavy metal, singer/songwriter Max Cavalera finds himself at a bizarre point in his career on 3. Where almost every album he has released unveiled a new and exciting direction for Cavalera's unique artistic voice, 3 is one of the first to not really have any place to go. Cavalera is left trying to continue making new music without a specific direction to move into, so he tries a little bit of everything, from the keyboard-laced instrumental "Soulfly III" to the percussion showcase "Zumbi." But little of it sticks, instead sounding like a retread of previous ideas, with his increasingly simplistic lyrics becoming a burden to the music. What does work is simply awesome, which also helps frustrate the listener further. A five-track stretch in the middle is spellbinding in its creativity and power, putting everything before and after it on the album to shame, and essentially bringing this from being a poor album into a passable release. Starting with the incredible "Brasil," Cavalera angrily shouts in his native Brazilian while the chugging bass of Marcello D. Rapp and the thick percussion of Roy Mayorga and Meia Noite drive the song into the stratosphere.
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