Primordial

[open face surgery]

Ya, that Exhumed gig was my first as well and the timing couldn't have been better as, while I had and enjoyed Spirit, this one burst the whole thing open for me. Still my 2 favourites without question. May listen to that pod but have discussed his dislike for the album many times.

[Thorn]

Enjoyed that, what an album and time that was in the Irish scene. Thing is, it's become one of those album that you, well me anyway, played so much, knew so well, that nowadays I'd safely say I'd be grabbing any of the other ones to play before it. Part of that too is that TGW also evokes a sadness that era is gone, a nostalgia for that time and just a general longing to be out there on the gigging scene again which I'm not anymore. Kinda like listening to a WASP album which makes you want to go to the nearest rock bar and raise all hell yet you know there is no rock bars, near or far, and that anything over five or six pints will leave you crippled for a week now anyway.
Ah, a glass of red and The Gathering Wilderness by the fireside is probably the way to go then.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Would you ever want them back?

From time to time, yeah.

[Ducky]

"The Coffin Ships" is fucking unreal, but I just cannot get my ears around Anderson's utterly shite mix.

[Sworntothecans]

I still blame John Kenny for mixing up Primordial and Waylander on the metal show for one night for putting me off them for years until I heard The Coffin Ships on a Terrorizer(or was it Metal Hammer?) CD.

[Eoin McLove]

I didn't know that Anderson bailed out before finishing the job or that there are all sorts of wrong bits in there like guitar tones changing from song to song and even within songs themselves. I think it's fine as it is though, and there's a good argument for all of those sorts of unexpected accidents and mistakes being integral to the story of an album. It wears its history within the production.

I fired it on here now, naturally.

[KingHostile]

Ah lads 'A Journeys End' puts me right in a place and time!

Yes indeed, I'll get my jacket and lets go if only turning that album on took me back in some deranged DeLorean moment.

Imrama didn't catch me, Collie and Joey were still in school in Skerries and Ciaran had given them cd's......

What a time!

[Snare]

I still blame John Kenny for mixing up Primordial and Waylander on the metal show for one night for putting me off them for years until I heard The Coffin Ships on a Terrorizer(or was it Metal Hammer?) CD.

Ah, so he mixed them up twice the plonkwr!!   
The first time he mixed them up with Sepultura for advance tracks off the new album back then.     

Imrama also didn't grab me. It has always been Storm and Spirit as the pinnacle for me.

[Don Gately]

Yes this is a great record apart from the production.