PRIMORDIAL

Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: IRL
Style: mesmerizing dramatic epic pagan metal

highly impressive seventh longplay [2011] by Irish pagan metal institution continues with a similarly dramatic vibe that its predecessor, the grandiloquent To The Nameless Dead has left off, where Nemtheanga's unique and dramatic voice sounds like a wizard's prophecy, who calls storms to blast his tribe's enemies off in an ancient battlefield, while instantly recognizable O'Laoghaire's hypnotizing drumming thunders forward more like a tribal percussion or war drums, supported by layered, brooding guitar lines weaving slow-burning, ritualistic melodic patterns - such a charismatic, ceremonial formula is well familiar from their past catalog, yet it works bloody great as always, adding one more essential set of trademark mesmerism that also has a fair share of the band's black metal roots; recent British pro-printed tape edition