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PRIMORDIAL announce two UK shows in May 2012!
PRIMORDIAL have announced two headline shows in the UK in May 2012. They'll play Manchester on the 4th and London the following night.
Singer Nemtheanga is looking forward to their first UK club shows in three years:
"So finally we can announce some good news for the UK….two headlining shows in May in London and Manchester. It's been quite a few years since we've played club shows in the UK that weren't connected to a festival of one sort or the other and considering the unfortunate circumstances surrounding our appearance at Bloodstock last year where my voice gave out. The one and only time in 20 years and it had to happen on the mainstage at Bloodstock! So hopefully these shows will go someway to making recompense for that and a chance for us to play a full set in a country we don't visit often enough that has supported us from day one! See you on the field…"
Joining them on stage will be Hell and Winterfylleth.
PRIMORDIAL
Hell
Winterfylleth
04/05/12 – UK – Manchester – Moho Live
05/05/12 – UK – London – Islington Academy
Tickets go on sale on Monday January 23, 2012 and can be purchased here: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk
PRIMORDIALs Redemption At The Puritan's Hand was released in April of 2011 and entered the official album charts in Germany (#31), Finland (#23), Sweden (#54) and Switzerland (#90)!
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PRIMORDIAL to embark on European Paganfest tour in March!
Irish Pagan Metallers PRIMORDIAL will be co-headlining the Paganfest tour 2012 kicking off in Oberhausen, Germany the 16th of March 2012!
Comments PRIMORDIAL singer A.A. Nemtheanga: "Never say never right? So we announce our participation in next March's Paganfest festival tour across Central Europe. Anyone who has read any of my various ramblings and musings over the last year or two will know my feelings about the current state of club touring and the industry in general. It's an ugly business but we are definitely ugly enough and getting uglier every year so strangely enough the stars aligned and the dates fell into place for us. Anyone who knows anything about Primordial knows how hard it has become for us to commit to lengthy touring as the years go by. The window of opportunity represents possibly the only opportunity we will have to do a longer tour for 'Redemption' across Europe so as they say…needs must and better the devil you know. Never as I say say never.
Regardless of the fact that the general tone of this tour is a little different. It has a more pronounced mix of light and shade. We have our Icelandic brethren Solstafir taking part which I would have thought alongside ourselves should sweeten the deal for those who may feel the pagan/heathen festival tour holds nothing for them, Romanian shamans NeguraBunget also filling out the darker quotient of the tour. Heidevolk stand firm for proud old values and having taken part in Eluveitie's acoustic album personally my feeling on those guys and girls should be apparent! I support them and the cultural significance they represent. I'm not here to sound the rallying cry for a dying venture (i.e touring) or sound the death knell for Primordial club touring we are simply taking part, we have some interesting and new things planned and the tour has some light and shade, which may be difficult for some people to take but this is how it is. Of course some territories are missed and we apologise for this but this is a mixture of market forces and pragmatism and unfortunately nothing to do with us, we hope to fill in the blanks over time. Bottom line, Primordial is touring….this is the most important fact and you know what you are gonna get…blood sweat and fire so see you on the field…"
PAGANFEST 2012
ELUVEITIE
+ PRIMORDIAL
+ NEGURA BUNGET
+ HEIDEVOLK
+ SOLSTAFIR
16/03/12 - DE – Oberhausen - Turbinenhalle *
17/03/12 – DE – Stuttgart - LKA Longhorn *
18/03/12 - NL - Tilburg - O13 *
19/03/12 - DE – Herford - X
20/03/12 – CH – Pratteln - Z7
21/03/12 - IT – Bologna - Estragon
22/03/12 – AT – Graz - PPC
23/03/12 - AT – Wien - Arena *
24/03/12 - DE – München - Backstage *
25/03/12 - DE - Leipzig - Hellraiser
26/03/12 – DE – Hamburg - Markthalle
27/03/12 - DE – Berlin - Postbahnhof
28/03/12 - NL – Haarlem - Patronaat
29/03/12 - DE – Saarbrücken - Garage
30/03/12 - DE – Giessen - Hessenhalle *
31/03/12 - DE – Geiselwind - Music Hall *
01/04/12 - BE – Antwerpen - Trix
* = + EQUILIBRIUM + KORPIKLAANI
PRIMORDIALs Redemption At The Puritan's Hand was released in April of 2011 and entered the official album charts in Germany (#31), Finland (#23), Sweden (#54) and Switzerland (#90)!
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PRIMORDIAL win Best Underground Band Award at Metal Hammer Golden Gods in London!
PRIMORDIAL were voted Best Underground Band at Metal Hammer’s Golden Gods Awards 2011, which were held at The O2 on Monday night!
PRIMORDIAL singer A.A. Nemtheanga was there to pick up the award and wants to thank everyone who voted for the band: “First things first we have to thank all the Primordial fans out there who voted for us in the Golden Gods awards, the fact that it was not an Industry insider awards makes it that more important and a small victory for real music made with honesty, passion, craft and guile. It's not everyday a band like us who stand well outside the general confines of the mainstream receive awards so we take it in the good grace it was meant and thank Hammer and Metal Blade UK for all their efforts, hopefully we will be over for some UK gigs before the end of the year. No compromise, not now, not then, not ever.”
Other winners were:
* Best New Band - THE DAMNED THINGS
* Metal As Fuck - Nergal (BEHEMOTH)
* Best Underground – PRIMORDIAL
* Dimebag Darrell Shredder(s) - Gus G. (FIREWIND, OZZY OSBOURNE)
* Breakthrough Artist - SABATON
* Best UK Band - IRON MAIDEN
* Best Live Band - SKINDRED
* Inspiration Award - TWISTED SISTER
* Best International Band - AVENGED SEVENFOLD
* Best Album - "Absolute Dissent" by KILLING JOKE
* Event of the Year - "Big 4" coming together for first time ever in the U.K.
* Riff Lord(s) - Pepper Keenan and Kirk Windstein (DOWN)
* Spirit of Hammer - DIAMOND HEAD
* Icons - JUDAS PRIEST
* Golden God - Rob Zombie
PRIMORDIALs Redemption At The Puritan's Hand was released in April of 2011 and entered the official album charts in Germany (#31), Finland (#23), Sweden (#54) and Switzerland (#90)!
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PRIMORDIAL enter the official German album charts at position 31 with their new album 'Redemption At The Puritan's Hand'!
Also entering charts in Finland, Sweden and Switzerland!
Irish pagan metal masters PRIMORDIAL have entered the official German album charts at position 31 with their new album Redemption At The Puritan's Hand!
This is a great success for PRIMORDIAL and Metal Blade Records considering it´s the first ever chart entry for PRIMORDIAL in Germany!
Comments singer A.A. Nemtheanga: "What goes around comes around my friends, you can't keep a good band down, whatever the cliche might be! The industry may have changed vastly even since we released To the nameless dead but for a band like Primordial that resolutely goes against the grain without compromise charting at #31 is still a remarkable achievement so thanks to everyone who has supported the band through thick and thin over the last 20 years and to Metal Blade for their part in our gradual ascent since the release of The gathering wilderness. Coming from such an underdog nation as Ireland this is also a fantastic moment, we have had to work several times as hard as others to get to this point but no harm, it has given us character and the willpower to keep going regardless of what's thrown at us. So cheers and have a drink on us. See you down the front."
Redemption At The Puritan's Hand also entered the official album charts in Finland, Sweden and Switzerland, here´s the detailed positions:
Finland: # 23
Finland (Rumba charts / only record store sales): # 4
Germany: # 31
Sweden: # 54
Switzerland: # 90
Check out the albums first single Bloodied Yet Unbowed at www.metalblade.com/primordial
Tracklisting Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
1. No Grave Deep Enough
2. Lain With The Wolf
3. Bloodied Yet Unbowed
4. God´s Old Snake
5. The Mouth Of Judas
6. The Black Hundred
7. The Puritan´s Hand
8. Death Of The Gods
PRIMORDIAL live schedule:
14/05/11 – RO – Bucharest – Wings Club
27/05/11 – DE – Dessau – Metalfest Open Air
28/05/11 – AT – Mining am Inn – Metalfest Open Air
29/05/11 – CH – Pratteln – Metalfest Open Air
30/05/11 – NL – Tilburg – 013
31/05/11 – NL – Nijmegen – Doornrosje
01/06/11 – BE – Vosselaar – Biebob
02/06/11 – DE – Aschaffenburg – Colos-Saal
03/06/11 – SI – Maribor – Stuk
04/06/11 – HU – Budapest – Metalfest Open Air
05/06/11 – CZ – Plsen – Metalfest Open Air
10/06/11 – DE – Gelsenkirchen – Rock Hard Festival
17/06/11 – FR – Clisson – Hellfest
20/08/11 – DE – Dinkelsbühl – Summer Breeze
24/09/11 – IE – Dublin – The Academy
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PRIMORDIAL post second song taken off upcoming new album 'Redemption At The Puritan's Hand'!
Irish pagan metal masters PRIMORDIAL have posted the second single taken off their upcoming new album Redemption At The Puritan's Hand due April 23/26 via Metal Blade Records in Europe, April 26 in North America!
In collaboration with Metal Hammer Germany, PRIMORDIAL and Metal Blade Records are happy to offer you the streaming off the album opener No Grave Deep Enough. Please click HERE to play the song!
PRIMORDIAL singer A.A. Nemtheanga comments No Grave Deep Enough: "This song always suggested itself to me as the opener. It has a furious swirling chaos at it's heart that kicks off the album like a boot to the head. The structures and notes are inherently Irish in almost every way, you can almost feel the sodden dank earth and the cobalt grey clouds pregnant with rain storms skirting over the mountains! it reminds me somehow musically of Thin Lizzy on amphetamine! The lyrics are a stark proclamation, whoever you are whichever god or gods you pray to when the moment comes we are all the same and nothing but food for worms, but death, stay your hand and hold your reins, we are not finished here yet."
Tracklisting Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
1. No Grave Deep Enough
2. Lain With The Wolf
3. Bloodied Yet Unbowed
4. God's Old Snake
5. The Mouth Of Judas
6. The Black Hundred
7. The Puritan's Hand
8. Death Of The Gods
PRIMORDIAL have also announced two release shows in Essen and München, Germany. The shows will take place on the weekend of release of their new album Redemption At The Puritan's Hand due April 23/26 via Metal Blade Records in Europe! Support comes from TODTGELICHTER!
PRIMORDIAL
+ TODTGELICHTER
23/04/11 – DE – Essen – Turock (special release show!)
24/04/11 – DE – München – Backstage (special release show!)
To make these two nights not just shows but PRIMORDIAL events celebrating the unleashing of the new album, there will be a couple of extras only available on these two nights! Surely something you don´t want to miss out and nights to be remembered!
• low ticket prices (12 Euro pre-sale; 15 Euro box office)
• Redemption At The Puritan's Hand CD + LP available for purchase at show
• exclusive free A1 poster with every purchase of new CD/LP
• signing session and meet & greet with all band members
• special release show merchandise available only at these two shows
PRIMORDIAL live schedule:
16/04/11 – DE – Würzburg – Hammer Of Doom Festival
23/04/11 – DE – Essen – Turock (release show!)
24/04/11 – DE – München – Backstage (release show!)
06/05/11 – NO – Haugesund – Karmoygeddon Festival
14/05/11 – RO – Bucharest – Wings Club
27/05/11 – DE – Dessau – Metalfest Open Air
28/05/11 – AT – Mining am Inn – Metalfest Open Air
29/05/11 – CH – Pratteln – Metalfest Open Air
30/05/11 – NL – Tilburg – 013
31/05/11 – NL – Nijmegen – Doornrosje
01/06/11 – BE – Vosselaar – Biebob
02/06/11 – DE – Aschaffenburg – Colos-Saal
03/06/11 – SI – Ljubljana – Stuk
04/06/11 – HU – Budapest – Metalfest Open Air
05/06/11 – CZ – Plsen – Metalfest Open Air
10/06/11 – DE – Gelsenkirchen – Rock Hard Festival
17/06/11 – FR – Clisson – Hellfest
20/08/11 – DE – Dinkelsbühl – Summer Breeze
24/09/11 – IE – Dublin – The Academy
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PRIMORDIAL's A.A. Nemtheanga talks lyrical concept of new album 'Redemption At The Puritan's Hand'!
Irish pagan metal masters PRIMORDIAL will release their long anticipated new album Redemption At The Puritan's Hand April 23/26 via Metal Blade Records in Europe, April 26 in North America!
Singer A.A. Nemtheanga reveals the lyrical concept behind Redemption At The Puritan's Hand:"The themes have altered and changed a little. Again there could be a loose concept between some of the songs if you went looking for it as with most of the albums but they don’t all step in line. This is what I concocted to try and explain it all. If I had to sum this album up I would say this is the 'death' album. There isn't exactly a whole concept but many of the themes deal with mortality, how we deal with it. The spiritual structures we place around us to make sense of it. Sex, death, procreation and god. As we get older our relationship to our lives changes, the realization you will not live forever, the grand plan you hoped to uncover never materializes, food for worms and nothing more.
We are animals, beasts and making peace with that beast might be your life's work but more often than not he is never tamed.
Once a wolf always a wolf. We all seek redemption in one way or another, from lies or from truth. This is one of the central themes as you can tell from the title. How we seek redemption from our lies, from the evil that is at the heart of men. Forgiveness, salvation and redemption.
"When the shadow fell upon me
I knew I was running with the wolf
And it was his eyes I saw staring back
And this I learnt and this I know
You cannot escape the beast when you wear his mark"
Those of us who are godless or faithless often envy the man of faith for his life seems to have an extra purpose, despite the fact that logic, pragmatism, science and realism should crush any sign of faith we still persist in lying to ourselves. Perhaps the alternative is too much to bear. So the themes of religion, mortality and death occur over and over again, along with continuing themes of alienation, martyrdom, sacrifice, violence and retribution. Occasionally, very occasionally a chink of light breaks through."
Surf over to PRIMORDIAL's landing page at http://www.metalblade.com/primordial where you can stream Bloodied Yet Unbowed, the first single off Redemption At The Puritan's Hand due April 23/26 via Metal Blade Records in Europe. Check also the pre-order options including the Digipak (including a bonus-dvd), the jewelcase cd, the vinyl and a bundle including the Digipak and a T-Shirt!
Tracklisting Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
1. No Grave Deep Enough
2. Lain With The Wolf
3. Bloodied Yet Unbowed
4. God´s Old Snake
5. The Mouth Of Judas
6. The Black Hundred
7. The Puritan´s Hand
8. Death Of The Gods
PRIMORDIAL have also announced two release shows in Essen and München, Germany. The shows will take place on the weekend of release of their new album Redemption At The Puritan's Hand due April 23/26 via Metal Blade Records in Europe! Support comes from German Black Metallers TODTGELICHTER!
PRIMORDIAL
+ TODTGELICHTER
23/04/11 – DE – Essen – Turock (special release show!)
24/04/11 – DE – München – Backstage (special release show!)
To make these two nights not just shows but PRIMORDIAL events celebrating the unleashing of the new album, there will be a couple of extras only available on these two nights! Surely something you don´t want to miss out and nights to be remembered!
• low ticket prices (12 Euro pre-sale; 15 Euro box office)
• Redemption At The Puritan's Hand CD + LP available for purchase at show
• exclusive free A1 poster with every purchase of new CD/LP
• signing session and meet & greet with all band members
• special release show merchandise available only at these two shows
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PRIMORDIAL launch landing page including pre-order options for upcoming new album 'Redemption At The Puritan's Hand'!
Irish pagan metal masters PRIMORDIAL have launched the landing page for their upcoming new album Redemption At The Puritan's Hand due April 23/26 via Metal Blade Records in Europe, April 26 in North America!
Surf over HERE to get all the latest information about PRIMORDIAL including upcoming tour dates, pre-order options and the streaming of the band's first single Bloodied Yet Unbowed. Video snippets from the recording process will be posted there as well so keep coming back to http://www.metalblade.com/primordial
Metal Blade Records Europe will release Redemption At The Puritan's Hand in three versions. A jewelcase CD including eight songs of new PRIMORDIAL, a limited Digipak version including eight songs of new PRIMORDIAL and a bonus-dvd, on vinyl as double-gatefold version with eight songs of new PRIMORDIAL!
Comments PRIMORDIAL singer A.A. Nemtheanga: "The album will come as two editions. One in the normal jewel case eight songs, 60 + minutes. The second will be a special digipak edition with O-card, altered artwork and a bonus dvd. Again filmed by Gareth Averill who did such an amazing job on our dvd 'All Empires Fall' this is a twenty minute short film of us rehearsing two songs from the album and discussing briefly how we write songs and the inspiration behind them. The vinyl will follow as a special white edition double."
Tracklisting Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
1. No Grave Deep Enough
2. Lain With The Wolf
3. Bloodied Yet Unbowed
4. God's Old Snake
5. The Mouth Of Judas
6. The Black Hundred
7. The Puritan's Hand
8. Death Of The Gods
Singer A.A. Nemtheanga about the recordings of the new album: "So how does it compare? For the first time I guess we felt a little pressure, before 'To The Nameless Dead' we had always been a niche band, a critics choice but following TTND we moved a little more centre stage. Expectations my friends, expectations! Yes it contains rabble-rousers and hooks and choruses, memorable themes and dynamics but also it has darkness in spades. It has grit, filth and foreboding. Dark sweeping tragedy as always mixed with blood stirring defiance!
The recording of course was booked during what has turned out to be one of the worst winters in living memory in Europe. Leaving Ireland at –15 to travel to a –20 Wales, trudging through feet of snow, slipping on black ice and basically having our bollix frozen off for three weeks left me thinking next time I’m going to record in the Bahamas and fake all this grimness. For good measure I got what looking back must have been swine flu recording the vocals. In fact some I can’t remember recording, I was so out of my head on painkillers and energy drinks. Suffering for your art is over rated believe me."
More PRIMORDIAL news, quotes about the lyrical concept of the new album and a lot more soon. Stay tuned!
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PRIMORDIAL post first single taken off upcoming new album 'Redemption At The Puritan's Hand'! Live update posted!
Irish pagan metal masters PRIMORDIAL have posted the first single taken off their upcoming new album Redemption At The Puritan's Hand due April 23/26 via Metal Blade Records in Europe, April 26 in North America!
In collaboration with Rock Hard magazine Germany, PRIMORDIAL and Metal Blade Records are happy to offer you the streaming off the third song on the album Bloodied Yet Unbowed. Please click HERE to play the song!
Tracklisting Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
1. No Grave Deep Enough
2. Lain With The Wolf
3. Bloodied Yet Unbowed
4. God's Old Snake
5. The Mouth Of Judas
6. The Black Hundred
7. The Puritan´s Hand
8. Death Of The Gods
Singer A.A. Nemtheanga about the recordings of the new album: "So how does it compare? For the first time I guess we felt a little pressure, before 'To The Nameless Dead' we had always been a niche band, a critics choice but following TTND we moved a little more centre stage. Expectations my friends, expectations! Yes it contains rabble-rousers and hooks and choruses, memorable themes and dynamics but also it has darkness in spades. It has grit, filth and foreboding. Dark sweeping tragedy as always mixed with blood stirring defiance!
The recording of course was booked during what has turned out to be one of the worst winters in living memory in Europe. Leaving Ireland at –15 to travel to a –20 Wales, trudging through feet of snow, slipping on black ice and basically having our bollix frozen off for three weeks left me thinking next time I’m going to record in the Bahamas and fake all this grimness. For good measure I got what looking back must have been swine flu recording the vocals. In fact some I can’t remember recording, I was so out of my head on painkillers and energy drinks. Suffering for your art is over rated believe me."
PRIMORDIAL have also announced two release shows in Essen and München, Germany. The shows will take place on the weekend of release of their new album Redemption At The Puritan's Hand due April 23/26 via Metal Blade Records in Europe! Support comes from TODTGELICHTER!
PRIMORDIAL
+ TODTGELICHTER
23/04/11 – DE – Essen – Turock (special release show!)
24/04/11 – DE – München – Backstage (special release show!)
To make these two nights not just shows but PRIMORDIAL events celebrating the unleashing of the new album, there will be a couple of extras only available on these two nights! Surely something you don´t want to miss out and nights to be remembered!
• low ticket prices (12 Euro pre-sale; 15 Euro box office)
• Redemption At The Puritan's Hand CD + LP available for purchase at show
• exclusive free A1 poster with every purchase of new CD/LP
• signing session and meet & greet with all band members
• special release show merchandise available only at these two shows
PRIMORDIAL live schedule (more dates to be announced soon):
07-08/04/11 – SE – Stockholm – Sweden Rock Cruise
16/04/11 – DE – Würzburg – Hammer Of Doom Festival
23/04/11 – DE – Essen – Turock (release show!)
24/04/11 – DE – München – Backstage (release show!)
06/05/11 – NO – Haugesund – Karmoygeddon Festival
14/05/11 – RO – Bucharest – Wings Club
27/05/11 – DE – Dessau – Metalfest Open Air
28/05/11 – AT – Mining am Inn – Metalfest Open Air
29/05/11 – CH – Pratteln – Metalfest Open Air
30/05/11 – NL – Tilburg – 013
31/05/11 – NL – Nijmegen – Doornrosje
01/06/11 – BE – Vosselaar – Biebob
02/06/11 – DE – Aschaffenburg – Colos-Saal
03/06/11 – SI – Ljubljana – Stuk
04/06/11 – HU – Budapest – Metalfest Open Air
05/06/11 – CZ – Plsen – Metalfest Open Air
10/06/11 – DE – Gelsenkirchen – Rock Hard Festival
20/08/11 – DE – Dinkelsbühl – Summer Breeze
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PRIMORDIAL reveals front art and tracklisting for 'Redemption At The Puritan's Hand'! A.A. Nemthanga talks about front art and recording process!
Irish pagan metal masters PRIMORDIAL have revealed the artwork and track listing for their upcoming new album Redemption At The Puritan's Hand due April 23/26 via Metal Blade Records in Europe, April 26 in North America!
Tracklisting Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
1. No Grave Deep Enough
2. Lain With The Wolf
3. Bloodied Yet Unbowed
4. God's Old Snake
5. The Mouth Of Judas
6. The Black Hundred
7. The Puritan's Hand
8. Death Of The Gods
PRIMORDIAL vocalist A.A. Nemtheanga comments the front art: "So it's finished, ready, done and dusted as they say. The cover was done again by our by now resident art executioner Paul McCarroll from Unhinged Art. Simple I think you will admit but definitely one that we argued least about through all the years, dark, macabre and beautiful it perfectly portrays the themes of the new album, which I will get into shortly."
Nemtheanga about the recordings: "So how does it compare? For the first time I guess we felt a little pressure, before 'To The Nameless Dead' we had always been a niche band, a critics choice but following TTND we moved a little more centre stage. Expectations my friends, expectations! Yes it contains rabble-rousers and hooks and choruses, memorable themes and dynamics but also it has darkness in spades. It has grit, filth and foreboding. Dark sweeping tragedy as always mixed with blood stirring defiance!
The recording of course was booked during what has turned out to be one of the worst winters in living memory in Europe. Leaving Ireland at –15 to travel to a –20 Wales, trudging through feet of snow, slipping on black ice and basically having our bollix frozen off for three weeks left me thinking next time I’m going to record in the Bahamas and fake all this grimness. For good measure I got what looking back must have been swine flu recording the vocals. In fact some I can’t remember recording, I was so out of my head on painkillers and energy drinks. Suffering for your art is over rated believe me."
PRIMORDIAL released the reissue of their classic Storm Before Calm album last week. The album is available in a remastered version as a double digipak with new artwork. The package also contains the bonus-DVD Live at Summer Breeze 2004!
Surf over to the landing page and check the order options and also the live video of the album track Sons Of The Morrigan taken off the Summer Breeze 2004 show by clicking HERE!
PRIMORDIAL will release their new longplayer Redemption At The Puritan’s Hand on April 23rd/26th, 2011 via Metal Blade Records in Europe, April 26th in North America!
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PRIMORDIAL announce exclusive German release shows in Essen and München with specials!
Irish pagan metal masters PRIMORDIAL have announced two release shows in Essen and München, Germany. The shows will take place on the weekend of release of their new album Redemption At The Puritan’s Hand due April 23/26 via Metal Blade Records in Europe!
PRIMORDIAL
+ support (t.b.a.)
23/04/11 – DE – Essen – Turock (special release show!)
24/04/11 – DE – München – Backstage (special release show!)
To make these two nights not just shows but PRIMORDIAL events celebrating the unleashing of the new album, there will be a couple of extras only available on these two nights! Surely something you don’t want to miss out and nights to be remembered!
• low ticket prices (12 Euro pre-sale; 15 Euro box office)
• Redemption At The Puritan’s Hand CD + LP available for purchase at show
• exclusive free A1 poster with every purchase of new CD/LP
• signing session and meet & greet with all band members
• special release show merchandise available only at these two shows
Comments PRIMORDIAL singer A.A. Nemthanga: "We have two very special release parties scheduled in Germany for 23rd and 24th of April in Germany, Essen and Munich (Trurock and Backstage). The album will be available at these shows before shop release at a special price and the tickets right now are looking like being 10euro (12 at the most), there will be special merch, meet and greets, signings and just generally hanging out so make sure to get to those two. We should have a very special guest with us that right now I cannot confirm. Soon!"
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PRIMORDIAL singer A.A Nemtheanga talks about new album 'Redemption At The Puritan's Hand'!
Re-issue of 'Storm Before Calm' out now remastered including bonus-DVD 'Live At Summer Breeze 2004!
Irish pagan metal masters PRIMORDIAL have just released the reissue of their classic Storm Before Calm album in Europe. The album is available in a remastered version as a double digipak with new artwork. The package also contains the bonus-DVD Live at Summer Breeze 2004!
Tracklisting Storm Before Calm:
1. The Heretic Age
2. Fallen To Ruin
3. Cast To The Pyre
4. Suns First Rays
5. What Sleeps Within
6. Hosting Of The Sidhe
7. Sons Of The Morrigan
Tracklisting bonus-DVD Live at Summer Breeze 2004:
1. Gods to the Godless
2. A Journey's End
3. The Heretic's Age
4. The Soul Must Sleep
5. Sons of the Morrigan
6. To Enter Pagan
Surf over to the landing page and check the order options and also the live video of the album track Sons Of The Morrigan taken off the Summer Breeze 2004 show by clicking HERE!
Meanwhile PRIMORDIAL have finished the recordings on their seventh studio album, Redemption At The Puritan's Hand, with producer Chris Fielding (Napalm Death, Electric Wizard) for a April release via Metal Blade Records.
PRIMORDIAL vocalist A.A. Nemtheanga comments on Redemption At The Puritan's Hand:
"If I had to sum this album up I would say this is the 'death' album. Plain and simple. There isn't exactly a whole concept but many of the themes deal with mortality, how we deal with it. The spiritual structures we place around us to make sense of it. Sex, death, procreation and god. As we get older our relationship to our lives changes, the realization you will not live forever, the grand plan you hoped to uncover never materializes, food for worms and nothing more.
We are animals, beasts and making peace with that beast might be your life's work but more often than not he is never tamed.
Once a wolf always a wolf. We all seek redemption in one way or another, from lies or from truth. Those of us who are godless or faithless often envy the man of faith for his life seems to have an extra purpose, despite the fact that logic, pragmatism, science and realism should crush any sign of faith we still persist in lying to ourselves. Perhaps the alternative is too much to bear. So the themes of religion, mortality and death occur over and over again, along with continuing themes of alienation, martyrdom, sacrifice, violence and retribution. Occasionally, very occasionally a chink of light breaks through.
This is our seventh album, you know what to expect, passion, intensity, commitment and sheer bloody mindedness. Don't expect fantasy or escapism. No remorse, no regret."
PRIMORDIAL will release their new longplayer Redemption At The Puritan's Hand on April 23rd/26th, 2011 via Metal Blade Records in Europe! Stay tuned for track listing, album art, pre-order deals and the first sound samples in the coming weeks!
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PRIMORDIAL to release 'Storm Before Calm' reissue in February as Digipak with bonus-dvd!
Landing page with liveclip from bonus-dvd online!
Irish pagan metal masters PRIMORDIAL will reissue their classic 'Storm Before Calm' album on February 11/14 in Europe. The original album will be released as a remastered version in a double digipak with new artwork. The package will also contain the bonus-dvd 'Live at Summer Breeze 2004'!
Comments PRIMORDIAL singer A.A. Nemtheanga: "Storm before calm is the album in many respects the album that got away. The label at the time was shipping water and about to go under and despite the positive press the impact made was far less than previous album "Spirit the earth aflame". Everything somehow seemed like an afterthought, the artwork was not what we had in mind and something we always regretted. Halfway through the recording the plug was almost pulled by the studio, no money had come through to pay the deposit. It was only for the understanding of engineer Mags and the owners that we were allowed to continue and "Storm" even existed at all.
One thing looking back that doesn't seem like such an afterthought to me is the songs. We may have been grappling with Pro Tools, what was a new concept and technology for us that perhaps took some of the rich edge of the music but they still sound strong. Opener "Heretics Age" hit harder than anything we had done before to the W.B Yeats poem "Hosting of the Sidhe" which did the great mans words justice "Storm" is a strong album that perhaps never quite got the respect nor attention it deserved from either the press or fans. However it's with great pleasure we can re-release the album with proper and revised artwork, give the music a small but faithful re-master and as a bonus disc our performance at Summer Breeze in 2004. It's obvious we had yet to learn our trade playing on big stages but it's an interesting snapshot of the band from the "Storm" period. Enjoy!"
Tracklisting 'Storm Before Calm':
1. The Heretic Age
2. Fallen To Ruin
3. Cast To The Pyre
4. Suns First Rays
5. What Sleeps Within
6. Hosting Of The Sidhe
7. Sons Of The Morrigan
Tracklisting bonus-dvd 'Live at Summer Breeze 2004':
1. Gods to the Godless
2. A Journey's End
3. The Heretic's Age
4. The Soul Must Sleep
5. Sons of the Morrigan
6. To Enter Pagan
Surf over to the landing page and check the pre-order options and also the live video of the album track Sons Of The Morrigan taken off the Summer Breeze 2004 show by clicking HERE!
Meanwhile PRIMORDIAL have finished the recordings on their seventh studio album, "Redemption At The Puritan's Hand", with producer Chris Fielding (NAPALM DEATH, ELECTRIC WIZARD) for a tentative April release via Metal Blade Records.
"Chris Fielding is awesome, as usual," PRIMORDIAL vocalist Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill told Decibel magazine. "He's learned a few more tricks since we were last there, so it's working out well. The album itself sounds vital and full of energy," he continued, "and has some very bleak and morose moments, but also some of the more metal elements we had moved into with 'The Nameless Dead' It's definitely PRIMORDIAL and won't disappoint people."
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PRIMORDIAL to release 'Storm Before Calm' reissue in February as Digipak with bonus-dvd!
European club and festival shows for May and June confirmed!
Update on new album by singer A.A. Nemtheanga available!
Irish pagan metal masters PRIMORDIAL will reissue their classic 'Storm Before Calm' album on February 11/14 in Europe. The original album will be released as a remastered version in a double digipak with new artwork. The package will also contain the bonus-dvd 'Live at Summer Breeze 2004'!
Comments PRIMORDIAL singer A.A. Nemtheanga: "Storm before calm is the album in many respects the album that got away. The label at the time was shipping water and about to go under and despite the positive press the impact made was far less than previous album "Spirit the earth aflame". Everything somehow seemed like an afterthought, the artwork was not what we had in mind and something we always regretted. Halfway through the recording the plug was almost pulled by the studio, no money had come through to pay the deposit. It was only for the understanding of engineer Mags and the owners that we were allowed to continue and "Storm" even existed at all.
One thing looking back that doesn't seem like such an afterthought to me is the songs. We may have been grappling with Pro Tools, what was a new concept and technology for us that perhaps took some of the rich edge of the music but they still sound strong. Opener "Heretics Age" hit harder than anything we had done before to the W.B Yeats poem "Hosting of the Sidhe" which did the great mans words justice "Storm" is a strong album that perhaps never quite got the respect nor attention it deserved from either the press or fans. However it's with great pleasure we can re-release the album with proper and revised artwork, give the music a small but faithful re-master and as a bonus disc our performance at Summer Breeze in 2004. It's obvious we had yet to learn our trade playing on big stages but it's an interesting snapshot of the band from the "Storm" period. Enjoy!"
Tracklisting 'Storm Before Calm':
1. The Heretic Age
2. Fallen To Ruin
3. Cast To The Pyre
4. Suns First Rays
5. What Sleeps Within
6. Hosting Of The Sidhe
7. Sons Of The Morrigan
Tracklisting bonus-dvd ‚Live at Summer Breeze 2004:
1. Gods to the Godless
2. A Journey's End
3. The Heretic's Age
4. The Soul Must Sleep
5. Sons of the Morrigan
6. To Enter Pagan
In other news PRIMORDIAL have confirmed a bunch of European club and festival shows.
"We are constantly reminded all the time about how tired and jaded people are, that nothing excites them to go to club tours anymore that attendances are dwindling. It may only be ten dates but we really tried this time round with album number seven "Redemption at the Puritan's hand" coming out in April to try and put something a little different together and to hopefully combat some apathy! The mixture of the epic metal bombast of While Heaven Wept and the sweeping melancholy of Alcest together with Primordial will make for some shows to long live in the memory!"
PRIMORDIAL
27/05/11 - DE – Dessau - Metalfest Open Air
28/05/11 - AT – Mining - Metalfest Open Air
29/05/11 - CH – Pratteln - Metalfest Open Air
30/05/11 - NL – Tilburg - O13 *
31/05/11 - NL – Nijmegen – Doornrosje *
01/06/11 - BE – Vosselaar – Biebob *
02/06/11 - DE – Aschaffenburg - Colos-Saal *
03/06/11 - SI – Maribor – Stuk *
04/06/11 - HU – Budapest - Metalfest Open Air
05/06/11 - CZ – Pilsen - Metalfest Open Air
* clubshows with support from While Heaven Wept and Alcest.
Right now PRIMORDIAL are putting the finishing touches on their seventh studio album, "Redemption At The Puritan's Hand", with producer Chris Fielding (NAPALM DEATH, ELECTRIC WIZARD) for a tentative April release via Metal Blade Records.
"Chris Fielding is awesome, as usual," PRIMORDIAL vocalist Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill told Decibel magazine. "He's learned a few more tricks since we were last there, so it's working out well. The album itself sounds vital and full of energy," he continued, "and has some very bleak and morose moments, but also some of the more metal elements we had moved into with 'The Nameless Dead' It's definitely PRIMORDIAL and won't disappoint people."
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http://www.myspace.com/primordialofficial
PRIMORDIAL post update on drum position and album recordings!
A.A. Nemtheanga – singer of Irish Pagan Metallers PRIMORDIAL – has posted an update about what is going on in the bands camp.
"It’s been a while since my last confession. Joking aside it really has been a long time since our last transmission and the reasons are manifold and really pretty simple. This has been one of the most tumultuous years in the band since the mid nineties. The wheels very nearly came clean off, so where do I start.
We can’t go any further without clearing up the drummer situation. Truth is, we had an incident in Greece that if you follow or know anything about the band has been well documented so we won’t go into again. Simon had some real problems that night, firstly we thank the Greek fans for their understanding and we will be back in 2011. Yes it’s true in the aftermath of that we auditioned some drummers and I must also thank everyone who applied from abroad, the Irish drummers we did play with and everyone who sent us emails and messages wishing us strength and asking after Simon.
Suffice is to say Simon is the drummer of Primordial and I have no doubt this will never change, he is fit and well and we rehearsed yesterday. For our own piece of mind we had to audition people and in hindsight maybe something positive came out of it in that we had to put the album recording back and I feel we will be better prepared. We all of course have a long history together of over two decades in various personal combinations and to put it mundanely you go through ups and downs and this year has had more than it’s fair share of downs. For the first time in years we played a few very average shows and by our own admission became unfocused. Yet as always we regroup, our own biggest critics and in one month we enter the studio to record album number seven.
We would like to extend massive thanks to Gareth Averill for filling in at short notice for a fistful of gigs over the summer. In case you didn’t know he’s the guy who shot and edited our dvd and as you may recognise, my cousin. He stood up to the plate and in a couple of days learned our set, having been a session drummer in the Irish indie/rock scene for a decade. The whole experience and auditioning drummers at the very least gave us a greater insight into the dynamic that makes Primordial Primordial and that dynamic belongs to all five of us. We may have stand ins for shows now and again because we are not a professional band nor make a living from it and life gets in the way of us all doing every show but we realised that replace one of the five of us creatively and Primordial is not Primordial.
For the foreseeable future Cathal Murphy is going to be behind the kit live, making his debut with us at the end of the month in Spain and Portugal. Simon is just taking a break for a short while, nothing more and nothing less. This will be our first time in Madrid and Barcelona since 2000 when we played with Immortal. Been way too long.
Touring and festival plans are being thrown about now for 2011, hopefully some more news very soon.
The new songs are coming thick and fast at this stage as studio time is approaching. Sometimes I really wish we made a living from the band so could take more time than the snatches of rehearsal we get but that said we also thrive on some pressure and it seems to give the songs some extra edge. Foel Studios in Wales is booked for two sessions in November and December. Looking forward to a Welsh Indian Winter.
Bring on the monsoon season."
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Metal Blade Records teams up with Alan Averill 'Nemtheanga' of Primordial for distribution of his label POISON TONGUE RECORDS
Alan Averill 'Nemtheanga' works with Metal Blade Records' A&R department; first bands signed are Sweden's PORTRAIT and Ireland's DARKEST ERA!
Metal Blade Records is pleased to announce it has inked an imprint deal with Alan Averill 'Nemtheanga' of Primordial to handle distribution of his label POISON TONGUE RECORDS. Alan's POISON TONGUE RECORDS has already begun to gain notice as a promising label in the underground scene in Europe and now with distribution being handled by Metal Blade Records in North America, the label will be able to further expand its reach into States.
Alan Averill 'Nemtheanga' elaborates; "so after twenty years experience in the music industry I am starting my own imprint label called Poison Tongue Records through Metal Blade Records, working in conjunction with Darragh at Invictus Productions and Cyclone Empire. The reasons are many fold and despite the confused state the industry itself is in I felt it was time to step up and make a few things happen. Poison Tongue will be underground, make no bones about it and will concentrate on a couple of releases a year together with Invictus dealing with the underground traders, Cyclone hitting the middle ground and Metal Blade taking care of the shops, main mail-orders and bigger advertisements. Attack on all fronts!
The first release is the BLOOD REVOLT Indoctrine album. Poison Tongue is responsible for the limited digi version available right now through Metal Blade (listen to the track 'Year Zero' on the website) in conjunction with Profound Lore in the States and Invictus here in Europe taking care of the jewel edition.
Next up is a joint collaboration on a new DESTRÖYER 666 7" together with Invictus Productions. Something I'm very proud to be connected with having long connections with the DESTRÖYER 666 boys, this should be out to coincide with their tour with Watain in the fall. Then we are going to begin working with fellow Aussies, and one-time DESTRÖYER 666 members, Berserker and ASSAULTER on their new album, having recruited new members this is going to crush, plain and simple. A demo track is now up on the Poison Tongue site so be sure to check it out. More news will follow about releases to follow."
In other news; Alan Averill 'Nemtheanga' works with Metal Blade Records' A&R department and has already picked up two new bands. The first is PORTRAIT from Sweden and the second is DARKEST ERA hailing from Ireland. Metal Blade Records chairmen and CEO, Brian Slagel, comments on teaming up with Alan to assist the label in finding new metal acts: "We are very excited to work with Alan on this project. He has great ears and is really embedded in the underground."
Alan adds; "I'll be working A&R for Metal Blade, bringing some new angles and ideas. The first of which is Swedish old school contenders PORTRAIT. When this NWOBHM 80's magma finally spews to the surface these guys are going to be there. The second is young Irish band DARKEST ERA who will release their debut later in the year. A heady and vibrant mix of sweeping Irish melancholy imbued with Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, Omen and Slough Feg. Earth pagan power? Sound about right?
There will be more to follow believe me! If you are interested in getting in touch because your band might be what I'm looking for, email: alan.averill@gmail.com."
"We take pride in signing to a label with a legacy like that of Metal Blade," comments PORTRAIT guitarist Richard Lagergren. "And in a way I'd like to say this will be our first 'real' album… You ain't seen nothing yet! Hell awaits!"
Ade Mulgrew, guitarist of DARKEST ERA, comments; "this is a big step for us and gives us a great opportunity to get our music out to a lot more people. We've got a new album written that we are really excited about and can't wait to get it recorded. Metal Blade has put out some of our favorite records over the years and we're looking forward to working with them as we embark on this journey of conquest!"
Check them both at www.myspace.com/darkestera and www.myspace.com/portraitmetal
PRIMORDIAL's AA Nemtheanga and Metal Blade's Brian Slagel discuss classic metal albums in a 4 part series for Metal Blade TV!
Recently, Brian Slagel and Primordial's AA Nemtheanga had a chance to talk about some of their favorite classic metal albums from the Metal Blade vault. The conversation has been broken up into a four part series to focus on each of the four albums that they discussed. In part 1, the metal connoisseurs reminisce about Cirith Ungol's King Of The Dead. Nemtheanga talks about that album's influence on himself and Primordial while Brian Slagel talks about what it was like to work with the band back in the early 1980s.
This video series will be a fascinating and enthralling experience for metal heads new and old. Remember some of your favorite classics or discover an album that influenced hordes of modern musicians.
Part 1 of this series is available for viewing on Metal Blade TV HERE. Stay tuned to metalblade.tv for parts 2, 3 and 4 next week!
A.A. Nemtheanga's side-project BLOOD REVOLT featuring musicians from Revenge and Axis Of Advance will release it's debut album 'Indoctrine' on July 16/19 via Metal Blade Records in Europe. Listen to the song 'Year Zero' at THIS location!
Pre-order the exclusive Digipak for just 12,99 Euro at www.emp.de.
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PRIMORDIAL 2-CD re-issue of 'Spirit The Earth Aflame' available now!
It's hard to put the PRIMORDIAL experience into words. This Irish band has managed to establish their own territory, away from the cliches of the metal scene in general and the pagan scene in particular. PRIMORDIAL live and breathe the spirit of their ancestors, putting it into captivating creations full of sorrow and pain on the one hand and confidence and strength on the other. Perfectly balanced between slow, dragging anthems and pure metallic fury, they always manage to create a world full of enthralling myths, where mist engulfs wonderful landscapes, only to reveal them in all their glory just at the right time.
After the successful re-issues of 'Imrama' and 'A Journey's End' it's about time to bring on the third album in the PRIMORDIAL re-issue series! 'Spirit The Earth Aflame' was originally released in the year 2000 and is again available now as a 2-CD Digipack with O-card and golden print.
Track listing 'Spirit The Earth Aflame':
1. Spirit The Earth Aflame
2. Gods To The Godless
3. The Soul Must Sleep
4. The Burning Season
5. Glorious Dawn
6. The Cruel Sea
7. Children Of The Harvest
8. To Enter Pagan
Tracklisting bonus disc:
1. The Darkest Flame
2. In Graciousness (live)
3. A Blacker Art (live)
4. Total Destruction (Bathory cover / live)
5. Inside The Eye Of Algond (Rotting Christ cover / live)
6. To Enter Pagan
7. The Calling
8. Among The Lazarae
9. Soul Must Sleep (live)
Spirit The Earth Aflame is available at www.emp.de for 13,99 Euro!
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PRIMORDIAL to release 2-CD re-issue of 'Spirit The Earth Aflame' on July 2/5!
It's hard to put the PRIMORDIAL experience into words. This Irish band has managed to establish their own territory, away from the cliches of the metal scene in general and the pagan scene in particular. PRIMORDIAL live and breathe the spirit of their ancestors, putting it into captivating creations full of sorrow and pain on the one hand and confidence and strength on the other. Perfectly balanced between slow, dragging anthems and pure metallic fury, they always manage to create a world full of enthralling myths, where mist engulfs wonderful landscapes, only to reveal them in all their glory just at the right time.
After the successful re-issues of 'Imrama' and 'A Journey´s End' it´s about time to bring on the third album in the PRIMORDIAL re-issue series! 'Spirit The Earth Aflame' was originally released in the year 2000 and will again be available as a 2-disc Digipak on the 2nd/5th of July 2010!
Tracklisting 'Spirit The Earth Aflame':
1. Spirit The Earth Aflame
2. Gods To The Godless
3. The Soul Must Sleep
4. The Burning Season
5. Glorious Dawn
6. The Cruel Sea
7. Children Of The Harvest
Tracklisting bonus disc:
1. The Darkest Flame
2. In Graciousness (live)
3. A Blacker Art (live)
4. Total Destruction (Bathory cover / live)
5. Inside The Eye Of Algond (Rotting Christ cover / live)
6. To Enter Pagan
7. The Calling
8. Among The Lazarae
9. Soul Must Sleep (live)
More information on the packaging will be announced shortly!
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High Def trailer for upcoming PRIMORDIAL DVD 'All Empires Fall' premiering on Bloody Disgusting!
Horror movie site Bloody Disgusting will be running the exclusive premier of PRIMORDIAL's HD trailer for the bands upcoming, first ever 2-disc DVD All Empires Fall, which will be available March 12/15 through Metal Blade Records. Head over to Bloody Disgusting to check out the high definition trailer!
It's hard to put the PRIMORDIAL experience into words. This Irish band has managed to establish their own territory, away from the clichés of the metal scene in general and the pagan scene in particular. PRIMORDIAL live and breathe the spirit of their ancestors, putting it into captivating creations full of sorrow and pain on the one hand and confidence and strength on the other. Perfectly balanced between slow, dragging anthems and pure metallic fury, they always manage to create a world full of enthralling myths, where mist engulfs wonderful landscapes, only to reveal them in all their glory just at the right time.
DVD CONTENT:
Disc 1:
*LIVE in Dublin (95 minutes)
Disc 2:
*PRIMORDIAL documentary with vintage footage of the band's early years (90 minutes)
*Ragnorok Festival appearance (7 songs)
*Hove Festival appearance (2 songs)
*Graspop Metal Meeting appearance (3 songs)
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All Empires Fall will be released the 12th / 15th of March via Metal Blade Europe as a Double-DVD and as a 2DVD/2CD deluxe package!
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PRIMORDIAL DVD “All Empires Fall” pushed back for 2 weeks!
Due to technical reasons the release of the long anticipated PRIMORDIAL DVD All Empires Fall had to be pushed back for two weeks. Irish Pagan masters PRIMORDIAL will now release their first ever DVD All Empires Fall on March, 12th / March, 15th 2010 via Metal Blade in Europe! It´ll be a DVD-set containing two discs full of quality material!
Disc 1 is the centrepiece of the DVD and features a full PRIMORDIAL headline show recorded live on the 24th of January, 2009 in their hometown of Dublin, Ireland. The show was filmed with five cameras and has an exceptional vintage look due to the hard work in post production. A truly impressive and powerful live gig, exciting from start to finish in front of die hard PRIMORDIAL audience and a perfect sound track that is available in stereo and 5.1!
Disc 2 features live clips from the bands appearances at Ragnarok Festival (Germany), Hove Festival (Norway) and Graspop Metal Meeting (Belgium) in 2008. The second disc also features a band documentary with all the inside stories and loads of ancient footage from the early stages of the band. The documentary has a playing time of approx. 60 minutes. Interviews with all band members and rehearsal footage complete the second disc of the set!
The special Deluxe version of All Empires Fall features expanded packaging and two additional audio CDs featuring the Dublin show!
Here´s what singer A.A. Nemtheanga has to say about All Empires Fall:
“…the gods have been working hard dogging the release of our first dvd 'All Empires Fall' but finally we are ready to prevail. The DVD will contain our Dublin show from last year, a documentary and bonus material from recent festivals. The special edition will contain the audio discs of the Dublin show, so you can hear how some old classics are played now, some almost two decades after writing. So how does it look? The simple answer is and without exaggeration possibly one of the best Metal live shows I've ever seen. We filmed it on analog reels, cut it with frightening pace and mixed it up with some very unconventional camera angles. It has the feel of a classic show from the late 70s not the clean, clinical digital vacuum most modern shows are filmed in. We also invested a lot of time, money and effort so don't expect one of those free recordings most festivals and soundstages offer. As normal we didn't do anything conventionally so there are no boring balcony stills or side of stage montages. No overdubs, auto tuning or drop ins we are proud that 'All Empires Fall' shows us as we are and as a Primordial show always is. Blood and thunder and no quarter given from start to finish…”
Track listing All Empires Fall
DISC ONE – DUBLIN
1. EMPIRE FALLS
2. FUIL ARSA
3. GALLOWS HYMN
4. SONS OF THE MORRIGAN
5. CAST TO THE PYRE
6. THE GOLDEN SPIRAL
7. AS ROME BURNS
8. THE COFFIN SHIPS
9. TRAITORS GATE
10. JOURNEYS END
11. NO NATION ON THIS EARTH
12. GODS TO THE GODLESS
13. HEATHEN TRIBES
DISC TWO
DOCUMENTARY (approx. 60 minutes)
INTERVIEWS
RAGNAROK FESTIVAL – GERMANY 2008
1. EMPIRE FALLS
2. GALLOWS HYMN
3. SONS OF THE MORRIGAN
4. AS ROME BURNS
5. THE COFFIN SHIPS
6. HEATHEN TRIBES
7. GODS TO THE GODLESS
HOVE FESTIVAL – NORWAY 2008
8. THE COFFIN SHIPS
9. GODS TO THE GODLESS
GRASPOP METAL MEETING – BELGIUM 2008
10. GALLOWS HYMN
11. AS ROME BURNS
12. HEATHEN TRIBES
Click HERE to check out the first online teaser for All Empires Fall!
All Empires Fall will be released the 12th / 15th of March 2010 through Metal Blade Records!
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PRIMORDIAL to release first ever DVD “All Empires Fall”! First teaser available!
Irish Pagan masters PRIMORDIAL will release their first ever DVD All Empires Fall on February, 28th / March, 1st 2010 via Metal Blade in Europe! It´ll be a DVD-set containing two discs full of quality material!
Disc 1 is the centrepiece of the DVD and features a full PRIMORDIAL headline show recorded live on the 24th of January, 2009 in their hometown of Dublin, Ireland. The show was filmed with five cameras and has an exceptional vintage look due to the hard work in post production. A truly impressive and powerful live gig, exciting from start to finish in front of die hard PRIMORDIAL audience and a perfect sound track that is available in stereo and 5.1!
Disc 2 features live clips from the bands appearances at Ragnarok Festival (Germany), Hove Festival (Norway) and Graspop Metal Meeting (Belgium) in 2008. The second disc also features a band documentary with all the inside stories and loads of ancient footage from the early stages of the band. The documentary has a playing time of approx. 60 minutes. Interviews with all band members and rehearsal footage complete the second disc of the set!
The special Deluxe version of All Empires Fall features expanded packaging and two additional audio CDs featuring the Dublin show!
Here´s what singer A.A. Nemtheanga has to say about All Empires Fall:
“…the gods have been working hard dogging the release of our first dvd 'All Empires Fall' but finally we are ready to prevail. The DVD will contain our Dublin show from last year, a documentary and bonus material from recent festivals. The special edition will contain the audio discs of the Dublin show, so you can hear how some old classics are played now, some almost two decades after writing. So how does it look? The simple answer is and without exaggeration possibly one of the best Metal live shows I've ever seen. We filmed it on analog reels, cut it with frightening pace and mixed it up with some very unconventional camera angles. It has the feel of a classic show from the late 70s not the clean, clinical digital vacuum most modern shows are filmed in. We also invested a lot of time, money and effort so don't expect one of those free recordings most festivals and soundstages offer. As normal we didn't do anything conventionally so there are no boring balcony stills or side of stage montages. No overdubs, auto tuning or drop ins we are proud that 'All Empires Fall' shows us as we are and as a Primordial show always is. Blood and thunder and no quarter given from start to finish…”
Track listing All Empires Fall
DISC ONE – DUBLIN
1. EMPIRE FALLS
2. FUIL ARSA
3. GALLOWS HYMN
4. SONS OF THE MORRIGAN
5. CAST TO THE PYRE
6. THE GOLDEN SPIRAL
7. AS ROME BURNS
8. THE COFFIN SHIPS
9. TRAITORS GATE
10. JOURNEYS END
11. NO NATION ON THIS EARTH
12. GODS TO THE GODLESS
13. HEATHEN TRIBES
DISC TWO
DOCUMENTARY (approx. 60 minutes)
INTERVIEWS
RAGNAROK FESTIVAL – GERMANY 2008
1. EMPIRE FALLS
2. GALLOWS HYMN
3. SONS OF THE MORRIGAN
4. AS ROME BURNS
5. THE COFFIN SHIPS
6. HEATHEN TRIBES
7. GODS TO THE GODLESS
HOVE FESTIVAL – NORWAY 2008
8. THE COFFIN SHIPS
9. GODS TO THE GODLESS
GRASPOP METAL MEETING – BELGIUM 2008
10. GALLOWS HYMN
11. AS ROME BURNS
12. HEATHEN TRIBES
Click HERE to check out the first online teaser for All Empires Fall!
All Empires Fall will be released the 26th of February / 1st of March 2010 through Metal Blade Records!
http://www.primordialweb.com/
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PRIMORDIAL announce details for 'Journey's End' deluxe re-issue!
[02/07/09] After the successful re-issue of PRIMORDIAL's debut album 'Imrama', the Irish have announced the details for the next re-issue, 'Journey's End'.
Originally released in 1998, the deluxe re-issue of 'Journey's End' will see the light of day in Europe on August 29th / September 1st!
The deluxe re-issue features the remastered version of 'Journey's End' plus a high quality live recording recorded in Lisbon, Portugal on the 9th of December, 1999.
It comes as a double digipak package in a precious black linen slipcase with glossy golden hot foil print, containing a six-page Digipak with the original artwork, the two discs and a 16-page booklet with new liner notes and additional photos. Mandatory for any self-respecting heathen!
Tracklist 'Journey's End'
1. Graven Idol
2. Dark Song
3. Autumn’s Ablaze
4. Journey’s End
5. Solitary Mourner
6. Bitter Harvest
7. An Aistear Deirneach
8. Let The Sun Set On Life Forever
Tracklist bonus CD:
Live At The Ritz, Lisbon, Portugal, 09/12/99
1. Infernal Summer
2. The Calling
3. Journeys End
4. Children Of The Harvest
5. The Burning Season
6. The Purging Fire (Gods To The Godless)
7. Autumns Ablaze
8. Let The Sun Set On Life Forever
9. Graven Idol
10. To Enter Pagan
'Journey's End' will be released in Europe on August 29th / September 1st!
PRIMORDIAL re-issue series announced!
[09/01/09] 2008 was a great year for PRIMORDIAL! After the release of their magnum opus ‘To The Nameless Dead’ in late 2007 the Irishmen have played shows and festivals all over Europe during the year and gained loads of new fans.
The pagan metallers have lots of plans for the new year including a tour through North America and the writing of a new album. Apart from that the band will re-issue it´s catalogue during the year. All re-issues will be released in high quality packaging including bonus material.
The re-issue series starts with PRIMORDIALs debut album ‘Imrama’. Recorded in late 1994, it was originally released by Cacophonous Records in the autumn of 1995, already displaying the band's sense for overwhelming melodies, epic drama and total commitment, wrapped in a raw sound with a much stronger black metal influence than the band shows nowadays.
The re-issue comes as a double CD including the remastered album plus unreleased demos and live recordings, packaged in a precious black linen slipcase with glossy golden hot foil print, containing a six-page Digipak with the original artwork, the two CDs and a 16-page booklet with new liner notes and additional photos. Mandatory for any self-respecting heathen!
Tracklisting 'Imrama':
1. Fuil Arsa
2. Infernal Summer
3. Here I am King
4. The Darkest Flame
5. The Fires...
6. Mealltach
7. Let the Sun set on Life Forever
8. To the Ends of the Earth
9. Beneath a Bronze Sky
10. Awaiting the Dawn
Tracklisting Bonus disc:
Demo 93 'Dark Romanticism'
1. To Enter Pagan
2. The Darkest Flame
3. Among the Lazarae
4. To the Ends of the Earth
Live Dublin 1993
5. In Graciousness
6. A Blacker Art
The 'Imrama' re-issue will be released the 13th of March in D/A/CH/I and the 16th of March in the rest of Europe!
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