"I've fought my hardest for 'my dream' in music over the past 10 years and failed. [Relocating to] Norway [to join Borknagar] was the pinnacle of mistakes and I'll never let myself off the hook for it. I moved across the world for music, spent hundreds of thousands of $$$ and in the end I ended up digging myself into a deeper hole than before. I'm still trying to recover from that fuck-up. The only bit of light that my career ever saw was in the end, I was able to make a record and play some huge shows with [Max Cavalera] whose music I grew up idolizing. Thats good enough for me."

David joined Soulfly just before the recording sessions for the band's eighth album, 'Enslaved', which was released in March 2012 via Roadrunner Records.