Track Listing
1. Back to the Primitive - (Portuguese)
2. Pain
3. Bring It
4. J***********
5. Mulambo - (Portuguese)
6. Son Song
7. Boom
8. Terrorist
9. Prophet, The
10. Soulfly II
11. In Memory of...
12. Flyhigh
13. Eye For an Eye - (live)
14. Tribe - (live)
15. Soulfire
16. Soulfly - (Universal Spirit mix)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Sean Lennon | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Soulfly: Max Cavalera (vocals, 4-string guitar); Mikey Doling (guitar); Marcelo D. Rapp (bass, percussion); Joe Nunez (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel includes: Sean Lennon (vocals, guitar); Toby Wright (vocals, clarinet, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, programming); Larry McDonald, Meia Noite (percussion); Deonte Perry (programming); Tom Araya, Grady, Chino, Corey.
Producers: Toby Wright, Max Cavalera, Sean Lennon.
Recorded at The Saltmine, Mesa, Arizonia.
To say that Sepultura fans were saddened by the departure of Max Cavalera would be a gross understatement. Max's loyal following skeptically received Soulfly's debut while remaining Sepultura members forged ahead with a replacement vocalist. With PRIMITIVE, it's apparent that Cavalera's "new tribe" isn't a rebound side project.
Max and company continue the brutal groovecore assault and stretch even further into experimental realms. The reggae-soaked breakdown in "Bring It" and bittersweet vocal harmonies in "Son Song" (featuring Sean Lennon) are surprises you'd be hard pressed to find on a Sepultura album. Fitting guest vocalists including Slipknot's Corey/#8 and Slayer's Tom Araya, who bring challenging contrasts to PRIMITIVE.
Editorial Reviews
3.5 stars out of 5 - ...Old-school...Primitive is deeper...in the sound of [ex-Sepultura frontman] Max Cavalera's lived-in growl, the churning effect of a 4-string guitar and his concerns...
Rolling Stone (09/28/2000)
3 stars out of 5 - ...While [their] percussive, ethnic grooves certainlymake an impact, it's only when Cavalera allows his formula to be altered by others that sparks truly fly...
Q (11/01/2000)
3 out of 5 - ...With pre-millennial speed metal rubbing elbows with hip-hop, excursions into ambient instrumentals and acerbic soul, and a host of guests...PRIMITIVE is certainly a record [with] breadth...
Alternative Press (11/01/2000)
4 stars out of 5 - ...The metal album of the year so far....An incendiary blend of nu-metal, reggae and Brazilain rhythms...
Melody Maker (10/10/2000)
7 out of 10 - ...Draws on Max's political rage at colonial history and crimes of the conquistadors....the heavy metal Bob Marley...
NME (11/04/2000)
...More relaxed than their debut, the low-end slaughterhouse riffs are still embellished with Cavalera's beloved tribal percussion....[It] locks its teeth into the jugular...
CMJ (08/28/2000)
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