Primordial

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

The Coffin Ships?

[Eoin McLove]

Storm Before Calm is savage. I would welcome a return to that style and I agree with the comment about the vocals. I think his 'new' aggressive singing style can work but he uses it too much. He has a fair oul snarl on him still so it would be good to hear him utilise it more.

[Thorn]

Storm Before Calm is my favourite Primordial but it's a very high standard we're talking about here , every single Primordial album is a quality submission to the Metal Pantheon, ..we'll miss 'em when they go.. There has obviously been a play to the festival crowds as the band has progressed, good luck to them, it doesn't necessarily suit me laying back on my couch listening to them but for sheer consistency there aren't too many bands around who can live with our lads. ...And they haven't donned ice skates yet

[Paul keohane]

Storm my favourite by them too,peak Primordial for me!

[Snare]

Grim Reality summed it up perfectly there, defo went the way of summer festival orientated and adopted a repetitive formula.

Spirit just shades Storm for me, but yeah that's where it's at, some peak that is probably impossible to match or capture again.

[Eoin McLove]

I would vote for Spirit as well. What an album. It is mighty and epic but still has a dark, underground (and unrefrigerated going by my predictive text) feel to it. I don't hold it against them for mixing up their formula and aiming for greater success- all power to them- but I think the earlier albums prove to be more timeless.

[Snare]

The purveyors and kings of unrefrigerated metal!   

[Eoin McLove]

That early stuff is proving to have long life qualities!

[Eoin McLove]

I wonder what the chances are of them ever doing reprints of the old tshirt designs. I check their website every so often in hopes of finding a design I like but really what I want is Dark Romanticism, Imrama, A Journey's End, Spirit the Earth Aflame and Storm Before Calm tshirts.

[Don Gately]

Cool.

[Snare]

I wonder what the chances are of them ever doing reprints of the old tshirt designs. I check their website every so often in hopes of finding a design I like but really what I want is Dark Romanticism, Imrama, A Journey's End, Spirit the Earth Aflame and Storm Before Calm tshirts.

Would Hammerheart be any good for them? That's where I got my Storm LS years back at least.

[Eoin McLove]

I hadn't thought of that. Must have a gander 

[Eoin McLove]

I ended up reading back through this entire thread. It's actually an interesting enough oul ramble through all manner of ideas.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Hope you had suitable tunes on while you were at it. Rose Tattoo or the like.

[Grim Reality]

Had a listen back today of some albums to try and track where it went wrong (for me). With the tracks 'the burning season' and 'sons of the morrigan ' are great examples of clean or non-BM vocals that are top class and don't take over the music, rather soar above it. On The Gathering Wilderness are the first hints of big heavy metal vocalist AA, buy on something like 'song of the tomb ', a brilliant song, you can hear its still quite natural and "right". The opener 'the golden spiral ' sets the template for later rabble rousing opening tracks but none meet the standard of this one. The lyrics are fucking class. That vocal bit - "a raven, he watched my every move " gets me every time. Magic!

The next album is full blown festival Primordial. The BM rasp with clean sections is shelved in favour of that aggressive/epic heavy metal singer style 100% of the time. But the songs by and large are great and the vocals not yet overbearing so it's another highwater mark in their career. Though I have never liked As Rome Burns with its obvious crowd participation part.

Sadly the Redemption album which again I excitedly got at the time was a major let down. Only listening to it now as I type for first time since aftermath of release. Very unmemorable and samey. All the boring elements of Primordial coalesce here.

I absolutely respect the band for continuing to put out new music and not just rehash the past.

Listen to the opening section of the Golden Spiral, when the vocals kick in (raised my fist, to the cobalt skyyyyy!). That was sensational. They are a long way from that glory now.