PRIMORDIAL

Release Year: 2016
Artist Origin: IRL
Style: monumental epic pagan black metal

debut album [1995] by elite and unrivaled to this day, sincerely and consistently creative Dublin entity means for Irish metal scene as much as Kauja Pie Saules means for Latvians: distinctive, profound, fiery and epic recording, released at an exceptionally fitting time, when the native subgenre was emerging as a distinct offshoot, it has instantly entered the pagan black metal avantgarde, as along the fundamentally grim attitude their creativity also opened new vasts with peculiar harmonious line and firm history-related concept, while charismatic vocalist Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill was one of the first to effectively use clean singing along the more typical shriek, directing a course that would eventually become a cornerstone of the entire Irish extreme metal identity; recent European re-issue comes with authentic cover artwork and entire four track Dark Romanticism demo tape [1993] as bonus