Primitive (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Primitive
Type = Album
Artist = Soulfly


Released = September 26, 2000
Recorded = The Saltmine Studio Oasis in Mesa, Arizona
Genre = Alternative metal, nu metal
Length = 52:16
Label = Roadrunner
Producer = Toby Wright Max Cavalera Sean Lennon
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:71jqoaualijv link]
*"Rolling Stone" rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/soulfly/albums/album/303005/review/6068340/primitive link]
*Metal Reviews 78 / 100 [http://www.metalreviews.com/reviews/detail.php3?id=265 link]
*Blabbermouth.net rating|8|10 [http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/showreview.aspx?reviewID=37 link]
Last album = "Soulfly" (1998)
This album = "Primitive" (2000)
Next album = "3" (2002)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate Cover
Type = studio

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Lower caption = Re-issued Digipak cover

"Primitive" is the second LP by the metal band Soulfly released in 2000 through Roadrunner Records.

Reception

"Primitive" has sold over 226,569 copies. [ [http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=3145] Retrieved on August 20, 2008]

"Professional reviews":
*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 (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..."

Track listing

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

Limited Edition Digipak and Japanese Edition bonus tracks:
#"Eye For An Eye" (Live) – 3:50
#"Tribe" (Live) – 6:24
#"Soulfire" – 5:14
#"Soulfly" (Universal Spirit Mix) – 6:08

Personnel

*Toby Wright – Producer
*Max Cavalera – Producer, Guitar, Berimbau, Bass, Vocals
*Sean Lennon – Producer, Vocals
*Corey Taylor – Vocals (on "Jumpdafuckup")
*Chino Moreno – Vocals (on "Pain")
*Grady Avenell – Vocals (on "Pain")
*Tom Araya – Vocals (on "Terrorist")
*Cutthroat Logic – Rapping (on "In Memory Of")
*Marcello D. Rapp – Bass, Percussion
*Joel Nunez – Percussion, Drums
*Meia Noite – Percussion
*Larry McDonald – Percussion
*Neville Garrick – Cover Art, Photography, Package Design
*Andy Wallace – Mixing
*Steve Sisco – Mixing Engineer
*Leo Zulueta – Logo
*Mike Doling – guitar
*Jackson Bandeira – Group Member
*George Marino – Mastering
*Glen LaFerman – Photography
*Toby Wright appears on tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 12

Chart positions

Album - Billboard (North America)