"Back to the Primitive" | |
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1st track of Primitive | |
Sung by | Max Cavalera, Mikey Doling |
Duration | 4:21 |
Genre(s) | Nu metal |
Written by | Max Cavalera |
Produced by | Toby Wright, Max Cavalera |
Released in | 2000 |
Alternate title | "Primitive" |
Next track "Pain" | |
Single | |
Released on | December 4, 2000 |
Record label | Roadrunner |
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"Back to the Primitive" is the lead track of the second album Primitive, released in 2000. Max Cavalera performs a berimbau before the song really begins, but in the music video, the intro is Cavalera alternating with crowds chanting 'Soulfly' over tribal drumming. Then downtuned guitars would arrive, playing all the way till the end, blending in with tribal drumming and blabbering. This song is about dissolving the state into the local society of tribes.
"Back to the Primitive" was first of three singles released from Primitive, more than two months after the album itself came out. "Back to the Primitive" was played live nearly 400 times, the most of any Soulfly song.
Lyrics[]
Um dois treis quatro
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
We got our life to live
The way we want to be
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
Who feels it knows it
And God will guide me
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your bullshit
We're back to set it free
Confronting the negative
Back to the primitive
Fuck all you wannabes
You don't mean shit to me
Let it bleed
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
We got our life to live
The way we want to be
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
How it used to be
Check your reality
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
Fuck all you wannabes
Yeah
Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
Forever we will be
What we want to be
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
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Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Primitive
Personnel[]
Band performers
- Max Cavalera – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, berimbau
- Mikey Doling – lead guitar, backing vocals
- Marcelo Dias – bass guitar, percussion
- Joe Nuñez – drums, percussion
Session performers
- Meia Noite – Brazilian percussion
- Toby Wright – keyboards
Songwriter
- Max Cavalera – lyrics, music
Engineers and producers
- Toby Wright – engineering, recording, drum programming, digital editing, production
- Steve Sisco – mix engineering
- Lance Dean – additional and assistant engineering
- John Watkinson Gray – assistant engineering
- Andy Wallace – mixing
- George Marino – mastering
- Max Cavalera – co-production, mastermind supervisor
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Live-only songs on various albums
"Spit" • "Beneath the Remains/Dead Embryonic Cells" • "Roots Bloody Roots" • "Attitude" • "Sanctuary" • "Polícia"