Chama, Soulfly's thirteenth album, came out October 24, 2025 on Nuclear Blast. It's the Brazilian word for flame, Max Cavalera explained, and it also means "a calling." Drummer Zyon Cavalera co-produced it with Arthur Rizk, handling a good share of the production himself for the first time; Igor Amadeus Cavalera played bass, Mike De Leon played guitar, and Fear Factory's Dino Cazares turns up on one track. They cut it at Platinum Underground in Mesa, Arizona, with John Aquilino engineering. Max's pitch was short: "This record is the sound of Soulfly's fire!"
He started the band after leaving Sepultura, the Brazilian band he fronted, in 1996, and the self-titled debut came out in April 1998, dedicated to his stepson Dana Wells, who died that same year as Max left. Nuclear Blast still sells them as coming "straight from the deep jungles of Brazil to the arid expanses of Arizona," and the tribal percussion that line hints at has stayed in the sound across thirteen records. Nailbomb, Max's 1990s side project, is also on this Sonic Temple lineup.