Ireland
Black Metal
Page online:
August 3, 2004
Last update/review:
October 7, 2023
Primordial
One of a handful of Irish black metal bands making some noise
in recent years, Primordial has developed a rather intriguing
sound on their later works.
While black metal guitars are the dominant feature, the overall
style is more laidback and epic, with sprawling, slower riffs and
inventive pounding drumming and vocals that rarely are of the typical
black metal variety, but are more often a clean, midrange croon
(predominantly on
Spirit The Earth Aflame )
or a slightly huskier growl (on
Storm Before Calm ).
The melodies, at times slightly Celtic-laced, are spirited, sweeping and
majestic -- excellent and fairly unique.
Having just signed to Metal Blade, the best may be yet in store.
Current Members
A.A. Nemtheanga (Alan Averill)
vocals (The Nest , ex-Void Of Silence )
Ciaran MacUiliam
guitars
Michael O'Floinn
guitars
Pól MacAmlaigh
bass
Former Members/Guests
Derek MacAmlaigh
drums
Simon O'Laoghaire
drums
Discography
Studio
Live
Video
Imrama
1995
Cacophonous
Fuil Arsa
Infernal Summer
Here I am King
The Darkest Flame
The Fires...
Mealltach
Let The Sun Set on Life Forever
To The Ends of The Earth
Beneath a Bronze Sky
Awaiting The Dawn
A.A. Nemtheanga
Ciaran MacUiliam
Pól MacAmlaigh
Derek MacAmlaigh
A Journey's End
1998
Misanthropy
Graven Idol
Dark Song*
Autumn's Ablaze
Journey's End
Solitary Mourner
Bitter Harvest
On Aistear Deirneach
A.A. Nemtheanga
Ciaran MacUiliam
Pól MacAmlaigh
Simon O'Laoghaire
The Burning Season
1999
Hammerheart
The Calling
Among The Lazarae
The Burning Season
And The Sun Sets on Life Forever
Forever
A.A. Nemtheanga
Ciaran MacUiliam
Pól MacAmlaigh
Simon O'Laoghaire
Spirit The Earth Aflame
2000
Hammerheart
Spirit The Earth Aflame
Gods to The Godless
The Soul Must Sleep
The Burning Season
Glorious Dawn
The Cruel Sea*
Children of The Harvest
A.A. Nemtheanga
Ciaran MacUiliam
Pól MacAmlaigh
Simon O'Laoghaire
Storm Before Calm
2002
Hammerheart
The Heretic's Age
Fallen to Ruin
Cast to The Pyre
What Sleeps Within
Suns First Rays
Sons of The Morrigan
Hosting of The Sidhe
A.A. Nemtheanga
Ciaran MacUiliam
Pól MacAmlaigh
Simon O'Laoghaire
The Gathering Wilderness
2005
Metal Blade
The Golden Spiral
The Gathering Wilderness
The Song Of The Tomb
End Of All Times (The Martyr´s Fire)
The Coffin Ships
Tragedy's Birth
Cities Carved In Stone
A.A. Nemtheanga
Ciaran MacUiliam
Michael O'Floinn
Pól MacAmlaigh
Simon O'Laoghaire
2005 Readers' Album
#59
To The Nameless Dead
2007
Metal Blade
Empire Falls
Gallows Hymn
As Rome Burns
Failures Burden
Heathen Tribes
The Rising Tide
Traitors Gate
No Nation On This Earth
A.A. Nemtheanga
Ciaran MacUiliam
Michael O'Floinn
Pól MacAmlaigh
Simon O'Laoghaire
2007 Readers' Album
#26
Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
2011
Metal Blade
No Grave Deep Enough
Lain With The Wolf
Bloodied Yet Unbowed
God's Old Snake
The Mouth Of Judas
The Black Hundred
The Puritan's Hand
Death Of The Gods
A.A. Nemtheanga
Ciaran MacUiliam
Michael O'Floinn
Pól MacAmlaigh
Simon O'Laoghaire
2011 Readers' Album
#41
Where Greater Men Have Fallen
2014
Metal Blade
Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Babel's Tower
Come the Flood
The Seed of Tyrants
Ghosts of the Charnel House
The Alchemist's Head
Born to Night
Wield Lightning to Split the Sun
A.A. Nemtheanga
Ciaran MacUiliam
Michael O'Floinn
Pól MacAmlaigh
Simon O'Laoghaire
2014 Readers' Album
#25
Gods To The Godless
LIVE
2016
Metal Blade
Gods to the Godless
Babels Tower
Where Greater Men Have Fallen
No Grave Deep Enough
As Rome Burns
The Alchemists Head
Bloodied Yet Unbowed
The Coffin Ships
Heathen Tribes
Wield Lightning to Split the Sun
Empire Falls
A.A. Nemtheanga
Ciaran MacUiliam
Michael O'Floinn
Pól MacAmlaigh
Simon O'Laoghaire
Exile Amongst The Ruins
2018
Metal Blade
Nail Their Tongues
To Hell or the Hangman
Where Lie the Gods
Exile Amongst the Ruins
Upon Our Spiritual Deathbed
Stolen Years
Sunken Lungs
Last Call
A.A. Nemtheanga
Ciaran MacUiliam
Michael O'Floinn
Pól MacAmlaigh
Simon O'Laoghaire
The Camelot Sessions
EP
2022
A Journey's End Volume 2 - Live At The Ritz, Lisbon, Portu
LIVE
2023
How It Ends
2023
Metal Blade
How It Ends
Ploughs to Rust, Swords to Dust
We Shall Not Serve
Traidisiu¿nta
Pilgrimage to the World's End
Nothing New Under the Sun
Call to Cernunnos
All Against All
Death Holy Death
Victory Has 1000 Fathers, Defeat Is an Orphan
A.A. Nemtheanga
Ciaran MacUiliam
Pól MacAmlaigh
Simon O'Laoghaire