Primordial (band)
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Primordial are a folk metal band formed in 1987 in Skerries, Ireland, by Pól MacAmlaigh (bass) and Ciáran MacUiliam (guitars).
Although their debut album, Imrama, was characteristic as being in a more melodic black metal musical direction, they gradually came to refine their sound with A Journey's End, which included the use of mandolins and whistles and a more epic style. The two subsequent releases, The Burning Season and Spirit the Earth Aflame, showed the band's reflection of cultural geist and emotion, woven into an amalgam of black-, celtic-, and folk metal musical styles. They have toured with various metal bands in the extreme metal genre, including Norwegian black metal band Immortal.
In January 2006 the band played their first US show along side Thyrfing and Moonsorrow at the Heathen Crusade metalfest in Columbia Heights MN.
They are currently signed with Metal Blade Records.
[edit] Discography
- 1993 - Dark Romanticism (Demo)
- 1995 - Imrama
- 1996 - Split 10"
- 1998 - A Journey's End
- 1999 - The Burning Season
- 2000 - Spirit the Earth Aflame
- 2002 - Storm before Calm
- 2005 - The Gathering Wilderness
[edit] Members
- Alan Averill "Nemtheanga" - Vocals
- Ciáran MacUiliam - Guitars
- Micky Flynn - Guitars
- Pól MacAmlaigh - Bass
- Simon O'Laoghaire - Drums
In addition to providing illustration for the group, vocalist Nemtheanga (Averill) is also a graphic artist for many other bands and artistic works.
