Dark Ages [Import]

Dark Ages [Import]

Track Listings

1. Dark Ages

2. Babylon

3. I And I

4. Carved Inside

5. Arise Again

6. Molotov

7. Frontlines

8. Innerspirit

9. Corrosion Creeps

10. Riotstarter

11. Bleak

12. March

13. Fuel The Hate

14. Staystrong

15. Soulfly V

16. Salmo-91 (Bonus Track)

17. Prophecy (Live In P0land)

18. Seek 'N' Strike (Live In Poland)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese pressing is the follow up to the 2004 album Prophecy. Dark Ages was produced by Soulfly main man Max Cavalera and was mixed by Terry Date, who has previously worked with Pantera and Deftones, among others. Features 13 tracks plus an exclusive bonus track. Road Runner. 2005.

Dark Ages,Soulfly,Roadrunner Int'l,Alternative Metal,Brazil,Heavy Metal,Pop,Rock

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Darker days ahead ?

The Bab E Lon!

Very Current, and Very Acurate With the Mood of the Real Minds of Today

This Age is not too Dark

Max Found Himself Once Again

Dark Ages
Soulfly
Manufacturer: Roadrunner Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AA4MBI
Release Date: 2005-10-04

Tracks:

The Dark Ages
Babylon
I And I
Carved Inside
Arise Again
Molotov
Frontlines
Inner Spirit
Corrosion Creeps
Riotstarter
Bleak
(The) March
Fuel the Hate
Staystrong
Soulfly V

Customer Reviews:

Darker days ahead ?.......2007-05-01

From the moment Max Cavalera was out from the band he fronted for more than 10 years (Sepultura, of course...), he was facing the dilemma that pursues anyone who steps aside from an established act. He could stick to the proven formula (after all he was the principal songwriter of the band) and continue working in his familiar style. Otherwise, he could build his new band from scratch. He chose another part - taking the modus operandi of the last Sepultura albums Chaos A.D. and Roots - he broadened and expanded it, further establishing the tribe-metal style. However the first lineup of this outfit lacked the crucial ingredients for further buildup. The major drawback was absence of a stable lead guitarist. The only constant bandmember these years was the bass player Marcello Diaz (former Sepultura roadie).
Prior to the recording of the Prophecy album Max came with the inevitable change. Entered ex-Ill Nino flamenco-shredder Marc Rizzo. For me he is complimenting Max the Riffmeister much better than Sepultura axeman Andreas Kisser. Their teamwork proved itself well in the band's two last outputs.
Dark Ages is the most recent Soulfly record, released in 2005. The overall vibe is very much Sepultura-like, pushing forward thrashing riffs instead of decorating with them fusion experiments that were prominent on previous releases. Outstanding songs for me would be I and I that fuses Max's trademark diesel riffs with a nice mellow passage, solid thrashers Babylon, Carved Inside, and Arise Again (a nod to the Sepultura glory days?). Several misses I found here are: the stupid singing in Russian on Molotov song (F^&*k the war, maneuvers are the main thing -?!!!!) that is pretty lame anyway, the familiar tribal drumming and chanting about Zumbi the hero - we've been in this movie already. Finally, the too long instrumental Soulfly V. In general, this is the finest Soulfly album (apart from its predecessor maybe - the excellent Prophecy). Hopefully this lineup of the band will produce more great music!!!

The Bab E Lon!.......2006-11-22

This CD is easily the most accessible effort since the 2nd of the Soulfly discography, and what I found most interesting is how he incorporates some old-school metal devices in these songs to create something fresh... or am I the only one who noticed how Maiden-like some of the guitar choruses sounded, or the double-bass backbeats of late 80s rockers Testament?

Nah, no way. Fans of old-school and 90s metal need to have this album right now. If you thought Max lost his way in prior works, shake it off and check this out. It's surprisingly heavy, heavier than Slayer's Christ Illusion or Meshuggah's first album. Those who know, will recognize how truly metal that really is.

-Fred

Very Current, and Very Acurate With the Mood of the Real Minds of Today.......2006-10-14

I was, and still am addicted to the first Soulfly release. Primitive came out, and pissed me off. I grabbed a few tracks off of 3 that drove me nuts, and totally abandoned Prophecy. Only after searching for hard heavy metal music I decided to give an old band a visit thanks to related links, and I guess growing up a metal head it was before my time?

Well here I am now a total of 7 years later and I got all 5 albums in the front of my 'bible' of an album book. Got em all at once, and you can read my reviews on each one with Prophecy rating all four.

This album is dark. The vibe this album carries is jaw dropping. Having known Max for being hurt over his son's death, and then patriotic with 9/11, then just jamming hard and worshipping god and faith, this album is like a damn therapy album for him. It has to be...

From the very beginning this disc starts off with the Arabian instrumentation that I know nothing of, but love and then it roars with a memorable drum roll kicking off the second track. From then on it gets harder and harder. I'm pretty sure the line up on this album was the same guys from disc one? If not then shoot me, but it's got at least a couple...

Most of the reviews say it goes back to Sepultura's roots, which personally I was never a big fan of cuz I can only take so much thrashing, and repetitiveness. The instrumentation and prodduction provided a good change with classic to modern - with solos being thrown in and sounding accurate. Max's vocals seem to have lol finally developed and sounded at their best. He's got this grind in his throat that doesn't sound overdone, and he's deeper in tone, but not throat clearing you know?

The lyrics and the PULSE of each song is what totally won me over. It's dark, simply put. It's like being in the head of a soldier, or philosophical thought of an anti war person who knows from being there what the feeling is. Hatred, violence, death, murder, suicide, regret, and prayer. It seems as if after all his patriotism towards the war and god being on his side, he feels robbed. He's angry. He's confused, and he's very pissed off.

This is definately an album to look into more than just good hard rocking music because his lyrics actually have heart in them, more than before and he's crying out/admitting mistakes. The war politcally and medialy has turned sour, and he knows it. We're getting more bodies shipped with freight than 9/11 victims' identifable body parts. It's by no means a political record, but to me it seems that he too is just fed up with everything in life, the government and right now Dana's justice being served is kinda secondary, also considering the feds have never closed the case..

I could explain this album so much why it's definately my top 3 right now, but the editors won't take it. vIf you've read my reviews and they've helped you buy, this will sell too. This album is a change of style, this album actually sounds like a BAND rather than random tracks thrown onto a disc. This album has a flow, even a marching song before a battle!! It's got the same breaks of tribal elements down tuned beaten with upside down drumsticks and not just palmed bongos.. The disc is black, the art is black and white, skulls and bones, the whole gothic symbol of oh s--- this isn't good. Buy it, and it'll be hardest if not the best Soulfly album yet. I promise mo fo's...

This Age is not too Dark.......2006-07-13

Dark Ages is Soulfly's Fifth album. Most people have labeled it as Max's heaviest album since Arise. This is sadly not true. Though the cover art comes from the same artist who drew the cover art for Beneath the Remains, Arise and Chaos A.D., Dark Ages is not all it's been hyped up to be. It has its heavy moments in the beginning, but as you progress through it, the flaws become apparent and Dark Ages becomes difficult to listen to from start to finish. There are a lot of things wrong with this album, which I shall list now.

1. Special Guests: yet again, Max Brings in 3 vocalists who are below average. The worst is his stepson Ritchie Cavalera, who makes me want to rip my ears off in a horrible and twisted rage from his inability to sing.
2. The Zumbi chant and Berimbau: Max needs to get a new chant. One every single Soulfly album he uses the same thing over and over again. This time he uses them on the song Riotstarter, which has got to be one of the worst songs on the album. You would think that his interest in tribes would allow him to use another one.
3. References to previous songs: Arise Again... Let's just say that the song Arise is better than this whole album. Same goes for Innerspirit (Inner Self).
4. Soulfly (Insert Roman Numeral Here) Instrumental: while this instrumental isn't that bad, it's rather boring.
5. Poor lyrics: The lyrics become pretty bad and annoying at a few points.
6. Lyrics about Dana's Death: I understand that Max was really attached to his Stepson, but it's been 10 years since his death. Do you think that if Dana were alive that he would want Max and his family to be grieving over his death until the end of time? I wouldn't.
7. Christian lyrics: These are the things that bother me the most. I'm an Atheist and I respect the beliefs of most people, but Pro God lyrics just don't work in Metal. I'm surprised that touring with MORBID ANGEL didn't change this. Remember songs like Necromancer? Antichrist? Crucifixion? Doe anyone remember?
8. Max actually mispronounces Babylon which kills the song for me and just makes me laugh at times.
9. (The) March: It's like Prodigy got involved with Soulfly, fortunately it only lasts 1:18.

With that all said and done, now we can talk about the good things found on this album. There are actually a lot of good songs found on the album. Had it been cut down to ten songs, this album would be significantly better. This is the first Soulfly album to not have a lineup change and actually allow the band to strengthen together and create some really good songs. But who knows how long it will last before Max kicks someone out. If you want to find out what Max is up to then I would definitely recommend picking this up, but only in the used bin. If you are a huge Soulfly fan then you'll go nuts over this but the moment you listen to the early Sepultura album, you may lose interest in this one.

Now that was the review for Dark Ages. This section is my comment on Soulfly and where they are with Sepultura. Though not really a review, I felt that I needed to say this and compare Dark Ages to Sepultura's Dante XXI as I am sure some readers are interested to know who is outdoing the other.

What's the current situation with Sepultura and Soulfly? Which outdoes the original? Many people would probably yell at me by saying "Those are two DIFFERENT bands!" but admit it. Everyone wants to know which is currently doing better. Which of their new albums are better? Is it Dark Ages or Dante XXI? So here is my opinion. Dark ages has a few good songs which bring back some hope that Max still has it in him. However, the album is plagued by special guests (fewer this time), clichés, Christianity to the point of annoyance, and features a few songs that should never have been recorded. Dante XXI on the other hand, I can listen to from start to end, features better solos and though it has a few soft spots, is a solid record and filled with mystery as it is a very interesting concept album. In the long run, Dante XXI is a much better album than Dark Ages by comparison. However the question of which is a better band may go to Soulfly as Igor Cavalera has officially decided to leave Sepultura, leaving Paulo as the only remaining original member. Now two of the things I loved about Sepultura are gone; Max's awesome Vocals and Igor's unique drumming with only thing saving the band being Andreas. Derrick may make a good vocalist but Max was just better in comparison hands down. The future of Sepultura is at stake where as Soulfly is actually becoming stable with Dark Ages being the first album without a lineup change. Who knows what will happen in the future as it looks like it's up in the air. Hoped this review and comparison helped, I apologize for its length.

Max Found Himself Once Again.......2006-06-20

Soulfly steers away from the defunct nu-metal bandwagon and proves that Max didn't sell out with "Dark Ages". This brings back the days of older Sepultura and, once again, no help from any musicians for the 3rd time. Marc Rizzo is a hell of an amazing guitarist and can shred really great. There's less tribal influence on this one, but if you're a fan of modern thrash/groove metal, pick this up. You will be blown away.

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Fury and Restraint

Dark Ages
Bedhead
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Release Date: 1996-02-20

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Customer Reviews:

Fury and Restraint.......2000-03-30

Bedhead's Dark Ages EP may be one of the choicest recordings of the late great Texas quintet (though anyone should get everything they've put out). Unlike some of the other records you can really hear the lyrics, which is one of Bedhead's strongest qualities. But hell, everything about this band was unique and dignified. Fans will find the rare instumental, Inhume a truly glorious experience. those who say this band was quiet don't understand the subtle fury of a slow build.

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Good, sullen background music
Fantastic
Doom at it's absolute finest

Cloaked by Ages, Crowned in Earth
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Good, sullen background music.......2004-09-29

Very dark, very moody, very long. 8 tracks that clock in over an hour. My Dying Bride type misery. The listener is hung upon passages that sway in a hypnotic lull, or crawl along with a sludgy slow metallic crunch. Vocals toggle between a deep smooth vampire-like caress and a demonic belch of torn vocal chords. The band first made their mark with a few releases on Relapse, but some member changes and a hiatus to restructure has found this release on Dark Symphonies. The ebb and flow of this darkened yet melodic creation is quite emotional in structure and delivery. Indulge only if you have the stamina to wade through a couple of 9+ minute tracks. Since it gets lost in itself often, the listener's attention can wander. This makes good, sullen background music to set a dim mood.

Fantastic.......2004-07-12

Morgion continues to make brilliant music, and this is a worthy follow up to the godlike Solinari.

Doom at it's absolute finest.......2004-05-04

Let me just start this off by saying, this is the first time I have been so floored by an album that I absolutely had to share my experience by reviewing it. The moment I received my package from amazon, I took out this cd, turned out the lights and shut the blinds, put it in the dvd player (can't go wrong with home theatre sound), lied down, hit play, and shut my eyes. I was expecting something powerful, something beautiful and moving in a dark, deep way, and that's exactly what I got.
The songs flow together, in fact, I didn't realize the first track was over until I looked up and saw I was halfway through the third song. Not to say that it's too repetitive, or that all the songs sound the same, because it's not and they don't. It's just one of those cds that's infinately better when absorbed as a whole. Excellent production, the various elements are blended perfectly. The addition of clean vocals has been done very well, also.
By the end of my listening session, I regretted having to return to reality. This music transported me, it lifted me and tore me down, it flew me through dark forests and giant chasms, flowing water and pounding beasts. Very rarely do I get such a first impression and I highly, highly recommend this to anyone that can appreciate the beauty of darkness. This is not background music, this is not music that you play while distracted by other things... this is real, origional, and powerful.

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Excellent recording quality and music with mediocre lyrics
Great New Orleans Blues/Rock Band Sound
The Rads best studio album.

New Dark Ages
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Excellent recording quality and music with mediocre lyrics.......1999-05-14

Rads fans need every recording they put out, and this one fit's nicely in the set. Ed Volkers Platonic lyrics sounded better with the hard driving sounds of Law of the Fish behind them rather than the bluesy R&B this CD offers.

Great New Orleans Blues/Rock Band Sound.......1999-01-16

The Radiators have been around the music scene for quite a few years, but this collection of very energetic R&B tunes is very fresh and upbeat. It has that crisp driving sound that draws the listener to meditate on the lyrics and appriciate the rhythmic instrumental solos. If you are a fan of "southern blues", you need to give this album a listen!

The Rads best studio album........1998-07-17

This is the best studio album from the Rads in their 20 year history. They continue to write and play the best music of our time.

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The Black Anger
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Catchy electronics, electric guitars and inspiring vocals.......2007-01-29

Catchy electronics, electric guitars and inspiring
vocals make up this two-disk compilation release of
the German band The Fair Sex, released by the American
label Van Richter. This most recent release came after
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well-known songs of the band, taken from the
out-of-print recordings The House of Unkinds, Demented
Forms, Oddities and Bite Release Bite. This anthology
also features two completely new songs, "Children of
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One"; these tracks don't even appear on the track
listing, but are still very good, nonetheless.
Powerful and aggressive, in the style of The Fair Sex.
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electronic beats combined with the electric guitar,
accompanying the vocals of singer Myk Jung. It is
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this band was producing this kind of revolutionary
music. The first disk never loses the fast pace set by
Divine Service. The second disk continues the pace.
The Fair Sex doesn't use any samples and hence their
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Fair Sex 2005 2CD comp info Van Richter.......2005-06-06

The Fair Sex: The Dark Ages 2CD info
-US released May 2005, Van Richter records (LA/Palm Springs) industrial label run by Paul Abramson, catalog VR1019, www.vanrichter.net
-The band: Myk Jung: vocals, Rascal Nokiv: bass & programming, Blonder: guitar. Moses W: guitar. Formed c. 1985 Essen, Germany
-This is their first 2CD retrospective compilation culled from out-of-print releases on defunct Last Chance Recs from recorded 1987-1991: Divine Service 12" (1987), Bushman 12" (1987), The House of Unkinds (1988), Demented Forms (1989), Oddities (1991), and Bite Release Bite (1991) + 2 unlisted new songs 'Children of the Revolution' (T-Rex cover) on CD1 & 'Beautiful Nightmare:the number one' on CD2
-band has 3 other CDs and a tshirt available on Van Richter, a video clip on the VR video VHS, and 4 other Van Richter CDs under their other side-project named Testify, a harder band that combines guitar & electro.
-LIYL: Ministry, NIN, mind in a box
-compiled by Myk Jung
-this album is very good.

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Great Album !!
Los Angeles Black metal
awesome

Embracer of Dark Ages
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Great Album !!.......2004-03-03

This album really kicks ass. This band takes you back when Metal was great and these guys make it better, they deserve alot of credit; they are the next big thing in BlackMetal. Everyone who is doubtfull should not fear because this band does not dissapoint !!!

Los Angeles Black metal.......2003-10-01

Great american blackmetal!! the drummer is the best in l.a. county

awesome.......2002-02-07

This is an awesome cd.great underground black/death metal band.if you wanna hear more of them check out there tributes on the Dwell records cds, the ones theyre featured on are : Hell Rules vol.2 A Trib to black sabbath, Gateway To Hell vol.2 a tribute to slayer, Devilswork trib to ministry, under the guillitine(or however u spell it) trib to kreator, In The Sign of the horns, a trib to venom. anywayz, time to review

These songs are all excellent my favorite being Forced Into Abbatoirs or Nothing (quite an epic)
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anyone that likes extreme black metal should love this album unless your a metal poser. buy it now

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New Dark Ages
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Dark Ages
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Dark treasure

The Dark Ages
Andrea Parker
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Release Date: 2001-04-23

Customer Reviews:

Dark treasure.......2002-12-18

The part of the music buying public that does know Andrea Parker knows her through her "Kiss my arp" full length LP or the remix album by DJ Kicks. What a rather unlikely offer then "Dark ages" is. Gone are the cold cut narrations of "Kiss my arp" and in are 5 super doomy and futuristic tracks .
The title of this EP is very accurate in what's in store here. If you were going to experience the end of the world while being in a club then this gem would serve you more than good.
A pulsating bass dominant almost throughout the 5 trax and and an undelying evilness leave you begging for more. This is easily Andrea Parker's most intimidating outing and i was left wondering why she didn't work this into a full blown LP rather than leaving it to an EP.
If, on the other hand, this is an indicator of things to come from her, then we are in for a massive treat.
This EP qualifies hands down as a gem that must be discovered. Buy it, listen to it, and spread the Dark Ages about. Incredible.

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It's not so Dark in this Age
heavier than before

Dark Ages
Soulfly
Manufacturer: Roadrunner
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ASIN: B000AR7FV0
Release Date: 2005-11-07

Tracks:

Dark Ages
Babylon
I and I
Carved Inside
Arise Again
Molotov
Frontlines
Innerspirit
Corrosion Creeps
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Bleak
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Fuel the Hate
Staystrong
Soulfly V
Salmo-91 [*]
Prophecy [Live][*]
Seek 'N' Strike [Live][*]

Album Description

Brand new studio album from Max Cavalera and his band of merry men.Limited edition version will be a digipack edition with 3 exclusive bonus tracks. This will be available for pre order only! roadrunner.2006

Album Details

The Fifth Album by Former Sepultura Founder Max Cavalera Switched the Lineup of the Band for this Outing with Bobby Burns on Bass, Marc Rizzo (Ex-ill Nino) on Guitar and Joe Nunez on Drums, who was also in the Lineup and the Group's Second Album "Primitive". This Edition Includes Three Bonus Tracks: "Salmo-91" and Two Tracks Recorded Live in Poland, "Prophecy" and "Seek and Strike".

Customer Reviews:

It's not so Dark in this Age.......2006-07-13

Dark Ages is Soulfly's Fifth album. Most people have labeled it as Max's heaviest album since Arise. This is sadly not true. Though the cover art comes from the same artist who drew the cover art for Beneath the Remains, Arise and Chaos A.D., Dark Ages is not all it's been hyped up to be. It has its heavy moments in the beginning, but as you progress through it, the flaws become apparent and Dark Ages becomes difficult to listen to from start to finish. There are a lot of things wrong with this album, which I shall list now.

1. Special Guests: yet again, Max Brings in 3 vocalists who are below average. The worst is his stepson Ritchie Cavalera, who makes me want to rip my ears off in a horrible and twisted rage from his inability to sing.
2. The Zumbi chant and Berimbau: Max needs to get a new chant. One every single Soulfly album he uses the same thing over and over again. This time he uses them on the song Riotstarter, which has got to be one of the worst songs on the album. You would think that his interest in tribes would allow him to use another one.
3. References to previous songs: Arise Again... Let's just say that the song Arise is better than this whole album. Same goes for Innerspirit (Inner Self).
4. Soulfly (Insert Roman Numeral Here) Instrumental: while this instrumental isn't that bad, it's rather boring.
5. Poor lyrics: The lyrics become pretty bad and annoying at a few points.
6. Lyrics about Dana's Death: I understand that Max was really attached to his Stepson, but it's been 10 years since his death. Do you think that if Dana were alive that he would want Max and his family to be grieving over his death until the end of time? I wouldn't.
7. Christian lyrics: These are the things that bother me the most. I'm an Atheist and I respect the beliefs of most people, but Pro God lyrics just don't work in Metal. I'm surprised that touring with MORBID ANGEL didn't change this. Remember songs like Necromancer? Antichrist? Crucifixion? Doe anyone remember?
8. Max actually mispronounces Babylon which kills the song for me and just makes me laugh at times.
9. (The) March: It's like Prodigy got involved with Soulfly, fortunately it only lasts 1:18.

Bonus tracks
This is the reason that you are looking at this import in the first place. Well I'll go over all the content so you get what you wanted to read. First of all the artwork is reversed. What is black is now white and what is white is black. The case itself is a Digipak and unlike previous Soulfly Digipaks, this one contains NO LYRICS INSERT. The Artwork on the CD itself has also its colors reversed. The 3 Bonus tracks are nothing really special. Salmo-91 is calm music with Psalm 91 being read monotonously in Portuguese. The two live tracks are of great quality however they are just the audio tracks taken from The Song Remains Insane DVD.

With that all said and done, now we can talk about the good things found on this album. There are actually a lot of good songs found on the album. Had it been cut down to ten songs, this album would be significantly better. This is the first Soulfly album to not have a lineup change and actually allow the band to strengthen together and create some really good songs. But who knows how long it will last before Max kicks someone out. If you want to find out what Max is up to then I would definitely recommend picking this up, but only in the used bin. If you are a huge Soulfly fan then you'll go nuts over this but the moment you listen to the early Sepultura album, you may lose interest in this one.

Now that was the review for Dark Ages. This section is my comment on Soulfly and where they are with Sepultura. Though not really a review, I felt that I needed to say this and compare Dark Ages to Sepultura's Dante XXI as I am sure some readers are interested to know who is outdoing the other.

What's the current situation with Sepultura and Soulfly? Which outdoes the original? Many people would probably yell at me by saying "Those are two DIFFERENT bands!" but admit it. Everyone wants to know which is currently doing better. Which of their new albums are better? Is it Dark Ages or Dante XXI? So here is my opinion. Dark ages has a few good songs which bring back some hope that Max still has it in him. However, the album is plagued by special guests (fewer this time), clichés, Christianity to the point of annoyance, and features a few songs that should never have been recorded. Dante XXI on the other hand, I can listen to from start to end, features better solos and though it has a few soft spots, is a solid record and filled with mystery as it is a very interesting concept album. In the long run, Dante XXI is a much better album than Dark Ages by comparison. However the question of which is a better band may go to Soulfly as Igor Cavalera has officially decided to leave Sepultura, leaving Paulo as the only remaining original member. Now two of the things I loved about Sepultura are gone; Max's awesome Vocals and Igor's unique drumming with only thing saving the band being Andreas. Derrick may make a good vocalist but Max was just better in comparison hands down. The future of Sepultura is at stake where as Soulfly is actually becoming stable with Dark Ages being the first album without a lineup change. Who knows what will happen in the future as it looks like it's up in the air. Hoped this review and comparison helped, I apologize for its length.

heavier than before.......2006-03-03

i really love the dark ages album, i listen to this album every day, sometimes two or three times.
this album sounds heavier, and more thrash than the previous Soulfly albums. Some reggae and tribal influences are here as well, and they fit very well to the whole result.
all songs are very good, but i like most "arise again", "frontlines", "innerspirit", "carved inside".
i saw Soulfly live two days ago, i visited Greece especially for this event, i'm happy it was more than worthy.
well, i would suggest that you should buy this album:)

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