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Soulfly is the metal (music)| metal band started
by Max Cavalera in 1997 after his decision to
leave Sepultura. The band has released four
albums, Soulfly (album)|Soulfly, Primitive
(album)|Primitive,  Soulfly 3|3 and Prophecy
(album)|Prophecy.

==Soulfly to 3 - earlier lineups==

Brazilian heavy metal (music)|heavy metal singer
Max Cavalera formed Soulfly after leaving
Sepultura in 1997. He recruited a lineup of Roy
Mayorga on drums (formerly of Thorn), Jackson
Bandeira on guitar (formerly of Chico Science) and
former Sepultura roadie Marcello D. Rapp on bass
with Cavalera on guitar and vocals.

On the band's website, Max Cavalera said that he
founded the band "with the idea of combined sounds
and spiritual beliefs." As well as leaving one of
the world's most popular heavy metal bands, he had
to deal with the unsolved murder of his stepson
and best friend Dana Wells. The first self-titled
album was released in 1998 and reached number 82
on the Billboard 200.

Max Cavalera featured on the Deftones album Around
The Fur in 1996 on a song called "Headup" about
Wells death. The influence of nu-metal appeared on
the Primitive album of 2000 which did not please
all of the bands fans. However, Primitive was the
most successful album by the band in the US
reaching number 32 on the Billboard 200 and number
11 on the US independent charts. Joe Nunez
replaced Roy Mayorga on drums for the Primitive
album. Max Cavalera produced the third album 3
released in 2002 which reached number 46 on the
Billboard 200 in that year. Mayorga was back
behind the drumkit for the 3 album.

==Prophecy - new lineup==

Cavalera recruited a whole new lineup for the
Prophecy album. Joe Nunez was back behind the
drumkit with Marc Rizzo formerly of Ill Niño on
guitar. There are two bassists playing as members
of Soulfly on Prophecy - David Ellefson formerly
of Megadeth and Bobby Burns of Primer 55. Cavalera
took this decision to have a mixture of old school
metal and nu-metal on the album.

Max Cavalera explains on the bands website that he
wants to use different musicians as part of the
group for each album. "This is an approach that
I've wanted to do for a while. I never wanted
Soulfly to be a band like Metallica, with the same
four guys. On every Soulfly album, we've changed
the line up and it will probably continue that
way. In order to do that, I had to start from the
inside out and bring in people who caught my
attention, that I had never played with before,
and create this."

In Sepultura, Cavalera had shown an interest in
world music as shown in the Roots (album)
featuring elements of the music of Brazil's
indigenous peoples. This approach continues on the
Prophecy album with Cavalera travelling to Serbia
to record with traditional musicians. On the track
"Moses", an explicit statement of his religious
beliefs he works with Serbian band Eyesburn
featuring reggae influences from one of his heroes
Bob Marley. Other tracks on the album feature
instruments from the Middle Ages, sheepskin
bagpipes and Serbian gypsies.

Prophecy was released on March 30, 2004 and as at
April of that year had reached a peak of number 82
on the Billboard 200 although it has reached the
top 50 of the Australian album charts.

==Band members==

As of 2004, the current lineup of Soulfly is

* Max Cavalera (guitar and vocals)
* Marc Rizzo (guitar)
* Joe Nunez (drums - also on Primitive)
* Dave Ellefson (bass)
* Bobby Burns (bass)

Former members of the group include:

* Roy Mayorga (drums - Soulfly and III)
* Jackson Bandeira (guitar - first three albums)
* Marcello D. Rapp (bass - first three albums)
* Mikey Doling (guitar - Primitive and 3)

==Discography==

* Soulfly (album)|SoulFly (1998)
* Primitive (album)|Primitive (2000)
* Soulfly 3|3 (2002)
* Prophecy (album)|Prophecy (2004)
* Dark Ages (album)|Dark Ages (to be released
September 13, 2005)

==Hit singles==

* 1998 "Umbabarauma"
* 1998 "Bleed (song)|Bleed"
* 2004 "Prophecy (song)|Prophecy"
* 2005 "Roots Bloody Roots"

==Cover songs==

* "Smoke On The Water", originally by Deep Purple
* "Roots Bloody Roots", originally by Sepultura

==Links==

* http://www.soulfly.com/ Official Web Site
*
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDMI
SS70311071654390588&sql=B2le67uy080jj/ All Music
Guide Soulfly page
*
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/artists/Soulfly/
Roadrunner artist page
* http://www.soulflyweb.tk/ Soulfly fan site

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