Sepultura has released 12 studio albums so far, the latest being Kairos (2011). Their most successful records are Arise (1991), Chaos A.D. (1993), and Roots (1996). Sepultura has sold over 3 million units in the USA and almost 20 million worldwide, gaining multiple gold and platinum records across the globe, including in countries as diverse as France, Australia, Indonesia, United States, Cyprus and their native Brazil.
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SEPULTURA Roots (1996 UK 15-track CD album featuring their sixth studio album and the last album to feature founding member & vocalist Max Cavalera including the singles Roots Bloody Roots Attitude and Ratamahatta picture / lyric booklet insert! RR8900-2)
In December 2004, writing for the fifth Soulfly album just began when two of Max Cavalera's kins died. On December 8, his close friend Dimebag Darrell was shot to death while performing live onstage for Damageplan in Columbus, Ohio by a raged fan. Two days later, his 8-month old grandson Moses died of health complications. These two tragedies lead him to write dark lyrics for their next album instead, hence the title Dark Ages.
All of the band members from the previous album Prophecy, except for David Ellefson (but he appeared on one song of this album), returned to help produce this dark-laden album. They are Marc Rizzo on lead guitar, Bobby Burns on bass guitar, Joe Nuñez on drums, and frontman Max Cavalera on lead vocals and rhythm guitar.
Dark Ages was released via Roadrunner on October 4, 2005, five weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, LA, thus leaving city and the people in the state of darkness. Though the album was released in UK a day earlier. The album was going to be released on September 13.
The album has the lowest peak on the US US Billboard 200 of any Soulfly album at the time and since, peaking at #155, possibly due to a lot of fans being disappointed for having different flavors of sounds. The highest peak of any country for Dark Ages is Austria, which peaked at #19 on the top 75 chart while charted for five weeks, the most of any chart. Four cities were charted for four weeks while four were charted for one week, including US. The Netherlands (Dutch) is the only chart where it spends the number of weeks other than one, four and five.
Dark Ages is the title of the fifth Soulfly album for a good reason according to Max, "I think one of the reasons it's called Dark Ages is it's also somehow personal dark ages...at the end of December [2004] when we were making the record, with losing Moses and Dimebag, it was a very dark month - it was a dark way to end the year."
The album cover shows what appears to be a feathered knight sporting tusks riding on a wolf-like creature with antlers. The only difference between standard and limited edition covers is that the colors are opposite.
The cover art is based from the ancient demon Choronzon (Pazuzu to Thelemites and Aleister Crowley). The artwork creator Michael Whelan has graced many Cavalera albums including Sepultura's Beneath the Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D. and Roots. A variation of this artwork was created by S. MacKay-Smith as a promo poster for The Mars Volta, more specifically for their full-album concert of their album Octahedron on August 30, 2009.
Hence the album title, Dark Ages explores aggression and dark themes to mourn two deaths ten months before it was released. Cavalera praised this album by calling it "unorthodox metal." The album is criticized for containing a lot of Sepultura influences, making it heavier and likened to thrash metal than any Soulfly album before it. This album has musical elements similar to Sepultura album Arise. In addition to thrash metal, groove metal, and a little death metal, there are some tribal, acoustic, industrial metal especially on the track "Riotstarter", ambient, and new age especially on the track "Soulfly V". Echoes, captured in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, is a common sound effect on this album, such as heard at the end of the track "Bleak".
Several songs on this album have lyrics about war and apocalypse, ushering the world into "dark ages" to go along with the title of the album. Couple of songs have lyrics about the possession of soul as well.
The album opens with dark ambient intro "The Dark Ages", which continues into "Babylon", having lyrics about the apocalypse. "I and I" is a homophone of the debut album track "Eye for an Eye". "Carved Inside" has old-school thrashy tunes that is about finding a soul inside one's self. "Arise Again" features both Metallica-like riffs and Sepultura-like echoes.
"Molotov" has lyrics in Russian, Portuguese, and English. The performance of Billy Milano, one of two guests for "Molotov", was recorded over the phone by Max. "Frontlines" is a fast song that features Slayer guitarist Kerry King. "Innerspirit" blends clean and melodic vocals by guest Hornsman Coyote, who also guests on the track "Moses" of the last album Prophecy, and the roars by Cavalera.
The album comes with three additional tracks on Japanese and limited editions and four additional on digital special edition. All of these editions include "Salmo-91" as the first bonus track, which has monotonous lyrics in Portuguese taken from Psalm 91 of the New International Version of the Christian Bible Psalm 91. All other bonus tracks on Japanese/limited editions are live tracks from Metalmania Festival in 2004 while all others on the special edition are live tracks from 2001, including the Sepultura cover "Spit".
The song "Obliteration" was tentatively going to be included as the fifth track of this album, but Max decided to replace that with "Arise Again". The then-untitled 14th track on the tentative tracklist following "Soulfly V" is "Salmo-91" and was originally going to be included on the standard edition.
Murder of the Universe is the tenth studio album by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. It was released on 23 June 2017 by Flightless in Australia,[4] ATO Records in the United States, and Heavenly Recordings in the United Kingdom. It is the second of five albums released by the band in 2017.[5]
The album was nominated for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2017, despite controversy over the band's win the previous year with Nonagon Infinity.[6] The band lost the award to Northlane for Mesmer.
Murder of the Universe is a concept album split into three separate stories, each containing elements of spoken word to carry a narrative.[7] The first two chapters feature Leah Senior's narration,[2] while NaturalReader's "UK, Charles" text-to-speech application narrates the final chapter.[8]
Murder of the Universe received positive reviews from music critics. On Metacritic, the album holds an average critic score of 73/100, based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[9]
AllMusic's Tim Sendra wrote in his review for the album that "King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's second album of 2017 is a rampaging, feverish blast of sci-fi prog punctuated by whizzing synths and robotic voice-overs."[10]
Exclaim!'s Cosette Schulz commented that "The 21-track album is certainly the strangest and most draining release that King Gizzard have made to date; not as ambitious as the seamlessly looping Nonagon Infinity, or this year's earlier release Flying Microtonal Banana, but a feat nonetheless."[13] 2ff7e9595c
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