“Prophecy” by Soulfly

"Prophecy" opens Soulfly's fourth album, also called Prophecy, and it was the only single pulled from it, recorded in 2003 and released on February 14, 2004 through Roadrunner. Max Cavalera wrote the music and the words, and he builds the song on a half-tribal pulse and guitars tuned way down, roaring over riffs that climb and drop before a fast, thrashing finish. Megadeth's David Ellefson sits in on bass for the whole ride.

The lyric is a vision: tribes laying waste to desert cities by the Red Sea, then marching on toward the mountains of Zion, with a blind sheep, a crown of thorns and the flag of the conquering lion along the way, and it ends on tribal war in a new millennium. John Gray engineered and recorded it. The video puts the band up on a rock pillar in Monument Valley, on the Navajo Nation.

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