Description
2018 reissue on black vinyl with new cover artwork and poster
Primordial returned after the desperate cries upon A Journey’s End with their most powerful and heathen recording. Writing in the liner notes that on this record they took a stance to combine the tragedy of the Irishman’s existence and combine it with the other side of the Irish, their power and strength and ancient history. There is also a sense of the heathen sons of the now taking control over the Christian filled landscape of their ancestors, in essence setting the Earth Aflame with a new age. This sensation is strong on here, and in the intro one is drawn into their fire and passion to fill lakes of Christian blood, turning them into the slaves they turned the pagan peoples and the heathen land. This rage combined with tragedy and sorrow and a bittersweet taste creates the power of this recording. Yes you can hear the influence of Bathory, but also you can hear their pure power, creating their volkish music, beautiful, Earthly and over all with the truth of the human condition. Many call this their defining hour, I am tempted to agree, simply because it sees them combine everything into one package, their sorrow and despair, their strength and honour, beauty and ugliness, the fight against the modern. Combined with the fact that it is over all their strongest recording, without the offputting qualities of some songs on Imrama, Journey’s End, Storm Before Calm and The Gathering Wilderness. However, if I were to place it in the importance of the message said The Gathering Wilderness is still their most important if not the most defining recording. But I will say the fact is Primordial create music with true importance to our age. From the despair and tragedy of the modern man on A Journey’s End to the desperation of our very age on The Gathering Wilderness, to this revolution against everything in the modern and the exhalation of the ancient on this and Imrama and Storm Before Calm, Primordial create music that speaks to any who are of the ancient spirit, who despise this modern world which destroys and consumes. Buy this album.
Track list:
1. Spirit The Earth Aflame
2. Gods To The Godless
3. The Soul Must Sleep
4. The Burning Season
5. Glorious Dawn
6. The Cruel Sea
7. Children Of The Harvest
8. To Enter Pagan