Artist: SOULFLY
Album: PRIMITIVE (CD)

Release date: 2000
Media type: CD

Rolling Stone (9/28/00, pp.53-4) - 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."

Q magazine (11/00, pp.114-6) - 3 stars out of 5 - "While [their] percussive, ethnic grooves certainly make an impact, it's only when Cavalera allows his formula to be altered by others that sparks truly fly."

Alternative Press (11/00, p.128) - 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."

CMJ (8/28/00, p.32) - "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."

Melody Maker (10/10/00, p.50) - 4 stars out of 5 - "The metal album of the year so far....An incendiary blend of nu metal, reggae and Brazilain rhythms."

NME (11/4/00, p.46) - 7 out of 10 - "Draws on Max's political rage at colonial history and crimes of the conquistadors....the heavy metal Bob Marley..."

All songs written by Max Cavalera except where noted.

TRACKLIST:

"Back to the Primitive" – 4:20
"Pain" (Grady Avenell and Chino Moreno) (Avenell, Cavalera, Moreno) – 3:40
"Bring It" – 3:22
"Jumpdafuckup" (Corey Taylor) (Cavalera, Taylor) – 5:11
"Mulambo" (with The Mulambo Tribe) – 4:19
"Son Song" (Sean Lennon) (Cavalera, Lennon) – 4:17
"Boom" – 4:56
"Terrorist" (Tom Araya) (Araya, Cavalera) – 3:46
"The Prophet" – 2:57
"Soulfly II" (Cavalera, Perry) – 6:04
"In Memory of..." (with B. Rabouin, D. Perry and J. Olbert) (Cavalera, Olbert, Perry) – 4:36
"Flyhigh" (with Asha Rabouin) (Cavalera, Olbert) – 4:48

LINE-UP:

Max Cavalera – Producer, Guitar, Berimbau, Bass, Vocals
Corey Taylor – Vocals (on "Jumpdafuckup")
Chino Moreno – Vocals (on "Pain")
Grady Avenell – Vocals (on "Pain")
Tom Araya – Vocals and Bass (on "Terrorist")
Cutthroat Logic – Rapping (on "In Memory Of")
Marcello D. Rapp – Bass, Percussion
Joel Nunez – Percussion, Drums
Meia Noite – Percussion
Larry McDonald – Percussion
Sean Lennon – Producer, Vocals