 Upon his exit from Sepultura in late 1996, singer/guitarist/songwriter Max Cavalera almost immediately set out to form his next musical endeavor, the band described as one of the few bands both heavy and globally aware, Soulfly. Besides leaving one of the most popular trash metal bands in the world, which he co-founded in the early '80s, he also had to deal with the unsolved murder of his stepson, as well as best friend, Dana Wells.
Using music as therapy to overcome his depression, Cavalera put together a band that included Roy Mayorga (ex-Thorn, Nausea, Crisis, Medication, and Shelter) on drums, Jackson Bandeira on second guitar (ex-Chico Science and current Nacao Zumbi), while former Sepultura lightman Marcelo Dias (ex-The Mist, XXX, Slaughter, and Mayhem) rounded out the quartet on bass.
Their self-titled debut album was released in the spring of 1998. After the release of that album Jackson left the band to be replaced by Logan Mader (ex-Machine Head) who continued to tour with Soulfly.
Besides fronting Soulfly, Cavalera has branched out into other areas usually not associated with heavy metal musicians. He became a much-sought-after speaker at music conventions, as evidenced by his appearances at CMJ's New Music Marathon in New York and Holland's Crossing Boarder Festival. He also guested on the Deftones' breakthrough sophmore album, '[album]Around the Fur[/album]', and signed on to sing a TV commercial for Sprite in his native land of Brasil.
Soulfly's second album, Primitive, was released in the fall of 2000 and was also available in a digipak, like their 1998 release (re-released in digipak in 1999). However, the new album did not feature the sounds of Mayorga on drums or Mader on guitar. Logan left in December of 1999 to form L.A. based band Medication, and he was joined by Roy in July of 1999. Instead Mikey Doling (ex-Snot) joined the then pair to play guitar along with Joe Nunez (ex-Fleshold, Stripping the Pistol), who was recommended by Kerry King of Slayer himself, on drums to make it a foursome once again. All four continued to tour together in support of Primitive.
In October of 2001 at the beginning of writing for the third album, after an over two year stay with the Soulfly, Joe left the band to pursue other musical interests. Within a month after Joe was gone, Soulfly lured Roy back. After a 2 1/2 year stay with his band, Medication, he rejoined the band just before the recording began for their 3rd effort.
The new album, titled 3, went to stores on June 25th, 2002. After more than a year of road support for 3, Soulfly had a major lineup shift going into the recording process for the third album. Guitarist Mikey Doling (ex-snot), bassist Marcelo Dias, and drummer Roy Mayorga all left the band with little notice. Max soon replaced them with Marc Rizzo (ex-Ill Niño) on guitar and Bobby Burns (ex-Primer 55) on bass, and had former Soulfly drummer, Joe Nunez, come back to help with the fourth record.
Upon the release of Prophecy in March of 2004, the band resumed their hectic touring schedule and are currently still making stops throughout the world in support of the album. Besides releasing their first DVD ever in 2005, entitled The Song Remains Insane.
On October 4, 2005, Dark Ages was released. Many critics have described Dark Ages as a return to Cavalera's thrash and death metal roots of the early Sepultura days, however the world metal influence found on the first four Soulfly albums is definitely present. In fact, this time, Cavalera traveled to five different countries - Serbia, Turkey, Russia, France, and the United States - in order to record all the sounds that he desired to have on the new album.
The core band on Dark Ages was still comprised by Max Cavalera, Marc Rizzo, Joe Nunez, and Bobby Burns, but on this album, Dave Ellefson came back to lend his talents to a couple tracks, Eyesburn vocalist Coyote sang on "Innerspirit", S.O.D. vocalist Billy Milano and Russian singer Paul Fillipenko of FAQ screamed on the hardcore influenced "Molotov", and Max's stepson, Ritchie Cavalera of Phoenix based Incite, sang on "Stay Strong".
Soulfly is currently supporting Dark Ages on a world tour and will be soon going to Europe with Skindred in the spring of 2006.
Current members
* Max Cavalera (guitar and vocals)
* Marc Rizzo (guitar)
* Bobby Burns (bass)
* Joe Nunez (drums)Links Soulfly, muslib.ru (рус.)Version Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:05:49 +0300
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