15th December - Primordial

Metal Cursemas Day 15


Primordial

Genre: Black
Location: Ireland

Over to the Emerald Isle once again for today's band. One of the legends of the Irish Metal scene and a band recognised worldwide as pioneers. We present to you a band who have carved their own path through the Metal scene into uncharted waters. The mighty PRIMORDIAL!

Already established as a pioneering Black Metal band in the 1990s, Primordial have, if you'll pardon the obvious pun, evolved into something more. From their black metal roots, the band have absorbed their native mythology and history to create a musical force that delves into the ancient legacy of Ireland's past. The end result is powerful, epic and tinged with enough true metal riffs that would have BATHORY legend Quorthon throwing the horns in his grave!

Primordial have developed to the point where individual genre-tags are meaningless. They encompass all that is great about Metal and as ambassadors of our tiny yet powerful United Kingdom of Metal, Primordial deserve... nay, DEMAND your attention! Listening to Primordial is like rediscovering the reason you started listening to Metal in the first place. It’s music from the heart, infused with the legacy of their nation's pride.

Reviews
"Distill the choicest elements of BATHORY, ENSLAVED and NEUROSIS, and add the mournful echoes of the sorrowful past of their native Ireland, and you'll at least have a starting point for dealing with PRIMORDIAL. The raw, bleeding emotion they wring from the most simple, hypnotic, swelling riffs is astonishing, and the pathos of A.A. Nemtheanga's vocals could drive the sun from the sky. These morbid pagans have brought their sound to a whole new level of intensity without making many surface changes — "The Gathering Wilderness" is their finest hour." Blabbermouth.net