Primordial
Primordial is a folk metal / pagan black metal band founded in 1987 in Sker… Read Full Bio ↴Primordial is a folk metal / pagan black metal band founded in 1987 in Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland. They play a unique style of pagan metal, which can best be described as a blend of black and celtic folk metal with strong influences from their Irish roots. Their lyrics deal with cultural heritage, history and struggle.
Primordial started out as a black metal band with some folk influences with their 1993 demo "Dark Romanticism" and 1995 debut album "Imrama". With the 1998 album "A Journey's End", Primordial underwent a strong stylistic change and delivered an album that was more original, personal and darker than anything they had done before. The different musical influences become more intertwined than ever before.
The trademark Primordial style become most apparent on the EP "The Burning Season" and "Spirit the Earth Aflame", their third full length album. This line was continued in the somewhat harsher album "Storm Before Calm" from 2002. The fifth album, "The Gathering Wilderness" was released in January 2005 and was highly regarded by critics around the globe. This album shows further musical progression and a return in pessimistic feeling to "A Journey's End".
The band's most recent albums are "To the Nameless Dead", released in November 2007, "Redemption at the Puritan's Hand", released in April 2011, and "Where Greater Men Have Fallen", released in November 2014.
Current line-up
Naihmass Nemtheanga (Alan Averill) - vocals (1991-)
Ciáran MacUiliam - guitar (1987-)
Michael O'Floinn - guitar (2002-) (Carnun)
Pól "Paul" MacAmlaigh - bass (1987-)
Simon O'Laoghaire - drums (1997-) (Geasa)
Former members
Feargal Flannery - guitar (1987-2002) (Arcane Sun)
Derek "D." MacAmlaigh - drums (1987-1997)
Primordial started out as a black metal band with some folk influences with their 1993 demo "Dark Romanticism" and 1995 debut album "Imrama". With the 1998 album "A Journey's End", Primordial underwent a strong stylistic change and delivered an album that was more original, personal and darker than anything they had done before. The different musical influences become more intertwined than ever before.
The trademark Primordial style become most apparent on the EP "The Burning Season" and "Spirit the Earth Aflame", their third full length album. This line was continued in the somewhat harsher album "Storm Before Calm" from 2002. The fifth album, "The Gathering Wilderness" was released in January 2005 and was highly regarded by critics around the globe. This album shows further musical progression and a return in pessimistic feeling to "A Journey's End".
The band's most recent albums are "To the Nameless Dead", released in November 2007, "Redemption at the Puritan's Hand", released in April 2011, and "Where Greater Men Have Fallen", released in November 2014.
Current line-up
Naihmass Nemtheanga (Alan Averill) - vocals (1991-)
Ciáran MacUiliam - guitar (1987-)
Michael O'Floinn - guitar (2002-) (Carnun)
Pól "Paul" MacAmlaigh - bass (1987-)
Simon O'Laoghaire - drums (1997-) (Geasa)
Former members
Feargal Flannery - guitar (1987-2002) (Arcane Sun)
Derek "D." MacAmlaigh - drums (1987-1997)
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Primordial Lyrics
04. What Sleeps Within My faith is written in my blood And my gods within…
06 Sons Of The Morrigan Shone the sunset red and solemn Where we stood and observed …
10. Awaiting The Dawn And so it seems I am unbound in my misery Drunk in…
10. Awaiting The Dawn... And so it seems I am unbound in my misery Drunk in…
6. Tragedy's Birth The crippled oracle breathes his lungs like grit His blacken…
All Against All is this all we've been left broken deaths and betrayals the …
Among the Lazarae Ceremonial beauty beneath a bitter moon Perditious souls da…
And the Sun Set on Life Forever Dawn's cold passion filters through the trees In darkness I …
As Rome Burns We are falling over the ends of the earth So gather…
Autumn And so it seems I am unbound in my misery Drunk in…
Babel's Tower In terrible silence you stood at the world's end And crawled…
Beneath A Bronze Sky Awaiting the dawn... Lilith my bride... a love of sin so…
Bitter Harvest A moment of clarity It spoke to me in tongues It spoke…
Bloodied Yet Unbowed I've told you once I've told you a thousand times No…
Born to Night Maybe you tried to gather the world in your arms Pushed…
Cast to the Pyre (Nothing seems to make sense, I'm tired of it all,…
Children of the Harvest Seems we are to live our final days Far from the…
Cities Carved In Stone I lost my self, in those streets A passenger of foreign…
Come the Flood Men of straw burn the fields As far as the eye…
Dark Horse on the Wind All those who died for liberty have heard the eagle…
Dark Song (Written originally by ancient Irish pagan poet Amergin Glan…
Death Holy Death Goose Goose lada goose goose goose Goose lada goose goose go…
Death Of Gods We stood on the shoulders of giants Like atlas with the…
Death of the Gods We stood on the shoulders of giants Like atlas with the…
Empire Falls A cold wind is blowing Through the graves it is blowing An…
Empire Falls (edit) A cold wind is blowing Through the graves it is blowing And…
End Of All Times End of All Time (Martyr's Fire) Is this all that we've…
Exile Amongst the Ruins The old enemies are dead and long gone, my friend You…
Failures Burden Days drift and I rise to the cold sun I was…
Fallen to Ruin Brother, what tidings doth thou bring? Can't you hear Dread …
Fuil Arsa Mairfidh are bhfuil go deo I gciorcal timpeall na cruinne A …
Gallows Hymn Sister, do not pray for me There is no forgiveness here Ju…
Ghosts of the Charnel House Ghosts Of The Charnel House Our knees were cracked and brok…
Glorious Dawn For those who may rise As a phoenix from the ashes For…
God I have one Desire Let it be A Pestilence upon your lands A…
God's Old Snake Hangman to all mankind Make your peace For mother earth la…
Gods To The Godless I have one Desire Let it be A Pestilence upon your lands A…
Graven Idol Her scent comes to me As the night breathes Her countenance …
Heathen Tribes This is my church It stands so tall and proud It has…
Here I Am King What am I but a thorn in your side? Frost in…
Hosting of the Sidhe The host is riding from Knockarea And over the graves of…
Infernal Summer Her skin, so pale... shrouded in black I drew down the…
Journey's End Shafts of morning dew, fade to dusk Fires in the distance,…
Lain With the Wolf I have lain with the lamb Sang his tender praise on…
Last Call Awake in another city at five A.M. The breath of day…
Let The Sun Set On Life Forever Dawn's cold passion filters through the trees In darkness I …
Mealltach Drifting in dreams of memory past To pray to never wake Or…
Nail Their Tongues If you are the son of Adam - Born at me…
No Grave Deep Enough All of the God's children they all have to die Pauper…
No Nation On This Earth The sea will be as a desert When my bones are…
On Aistear Deirneach [instrumental]…
Pilgrimage To The World's End Sometimes this spine it feels so heavy, O Lord And this…
Solitary Mourner And so the rain kept on falling Still a solitary mourner…
Sons of the Morrigan Shone the sunset red and solemn Where we stood and observed …
Soul Must Sleep "I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind…
Spirit the Earth Aflame Beneath the Bronze sky A Horizon in Flame The Oceans Boil Th…
Sunken Lungs What breath it takes the tide Is it from your -…
Suns First Rays [Instrumental] [The first rays of a Glorious Dawn, the warm…
The Alchemist's Head We are in deep water now Our rotten bond is a…
The Black Hundred Here there is no god he is ground to dust In…
The Burning Season Bring the women And children before me Let us make rivers of…
The Calling Brothers and sisters Descendants of gods Forge a new destiny…
The Coffin Ships Our young hearts are born with grief And we have paid…
The Coffin Ships http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsnRDcHdf_ Young hearts born with grief Shall pay the penalty of truth …
The Darkest Flame You gave me strength to carry on You pass all worldly…
The Fires.. Funeral winds...caress the flame The naked fire that soothes…
The Gathering Wilderness You say you know me I'm the Poison in your veins My…
The Golden Spiral One day I stood with my back to the wind And…
The Heretic's Age Soiled hands of work, to pit a Nations Fall Skeletal hands…
The Mouth of Judas I am cut from the cloth of Judas And have seen…
The Puritan's Hand There is plague at the door It begs to be among…
The Seed of Tyrants These are the traitors you called out One by one against…
The Song Of The Tomb From the north to the south From the east to the…
The Soul Must Sleep "I have crossed the seas, I have left cities behind…
To Enter Pagan Moonlight bathes my heart The birds sing my serenade The tre…
To Hell or the Hangman I see it you in you glance That you want him How…
To The Ends Of The Earth I am the eye of the storm Axis Mundi, I fall…
To Walk The Infernal Fields [Originally performed by Darkthrone] From the abode of de…
Total Destruction [Originally performed by Bathory] Twilight burn across th…
Tragedy The crippled oracle breathes his lungs like grit His blacken…
Traitors Gate Borders swell like the oceans Nations swept away In the st…
Victory Has 1000 Fathers Defeat Is An Orphan Your flesh calls to the funeral pyre As far as the…
What Sleeps Within My faith is written in my blood And my gods within…
Where Greater Men Have Fallen For those who buried their sons Under bone white crosses For…
Wield Lightning to Split the Sun And who would pray to anything But the mountain And wish for…