Music Box: Primordial

Primordial is an absolutely awesome band. If you're looking for intense and atmospheric metal, then your searching can end about here.

Primordial started out as black metal, with their demo 'Dark Romanticism'. In 1995 they gave out their debut, 'Imrama'. They recieved criticism for having a sound with melodic black metal influences - especially with the use of mandolin and flute. In the albums after that they have played music that is some kind of mix between black metal, celtic metal and folk metal - a sound that suits them perfectly.

I suck at putting genres at thing, actually, so sorry if I'm wrong. What I do know that intensity reaches the top with this band. I get chills down my back, I get goosebumps, and my tummy fills up with butterflies. Gallows Hymn gives this to me everytime I listen to it, every single time! It's so damn great.



The song I just showed is from the album 'To The Nameless Dead', their newest one from 2007. This cd is a true, true masterpiece. From start to end, I can sit there just listening to it, enjoying it, when doing absolutely nothing else - it is not many albums I can say that about.

Every single album Primordial gave out is good. Every album has something I love, and something that is worth listening to. Maybe 'The Gathering Wilderness' album is my second favourite, with great songs like The Coffin Ships and The Gathering Wilderness. 'Spirit the Earth Aflame' have got the awesome song Gods to the Godless. (many of the songs I've mentioned now will be shown later in this blog)

Primordial doesn't only make the best music you can find, they also hold the best damn concerts. Personally I saw them 3 times now, and everytime I saw them it was so intense I could not think about other things than them for weeks. The first concert with them I remember very good, it was at the Hove festival last year. And it is the best concert I attended ever (and when I attended around 100 concerts, that does mean something!). Luckily this concert was filmed, so I had lots and lots of pleasure with it in later times also. I'm gonna link you to a playlist on youtube having the full concert of that. It's really worth seing! Empire Falls, Gallows Hymn, As Rome Burns, The Coffin Ships, Gods to the Godless and Heathen Tribes - enjoy!



I can't describe Primordial in a small shit blog. You're really missing out if you don't know them, and if you are of the type that likes this kind of music. (actually you're missing out anyway! : D I hope I got someone to like it.

Now I argued so much with blogspot during this blog, that I'm gonna go ahead and just post this even though I could write much, much more :P Buy their cds! See their concerts!


This is my third post in my series Music Box where I reccomend and write about good music. I previously wrote about Fjoergyn and Arcturus.

Music Box: Fjoergyn

Fjoergyn is great pagan metal from Germany, that I advice people to check out, simply because the music is very intense and beautiful! The clean mixed with the brutal, the lovely melody lines mixed with the growling. It's simply stunning! They make me in a very special mood, and just listening to it as I drive through the beautiful landscapes that Norway has, really can make the trip as good as magical!

Fjoergyn released 2 albums so far. Ernte im Herbst from 2005 and Sade et Masoch from 2007. Ernte im Herbst has lyrical themes about the autumn and the nature, nature itself is a theme in the cd. Sade et Masoch is about people, misanthropy and humanship - so much about the nature of the human. Both cds are, in my ears, two masterpieces that shouldn't be let unheard, especially not by metalfans who apreciate epic, pagan metal.

Today I have listened to their song 'Sade' about 100 times (at least very many times). And I like it more and more everytime I hear it. It's not like I didn't know it before today, but today I really discovered the beauty in this song.

I would prefer to just have a small player here with the song, but since Fjoergyn cannot be found at pages that enables music-embedding I just show a youtube vid instead. Note: Nothing is happening in the vid, but 9 minutes to enjoy the look of Stephan and the other dude , why not? If not you can aalways read my other blogs while just enjoying this lovely music you're about to hear!



If you like this (which you should do if your taste rocks) I can advice you to check out their other songs too, maybe especially 'Katharsis', 'Das Leid des Einhorn' and 'Die Hierarchie der Engel'.. Actually, why not the whole Sade et Masoch album?

You should also check out 'Fjoergyn', 'Monolog der Natur', and.. you know what, check out the whole Ernte im Herbst album also! And when you checked out all their stuff you'll be warmed up and ready for the autumn and a new release!

For all who are already Fjoergyn-fans, you can look much forward to September when their new album Jahreszeiten comes out. I was at Ragnarök-Festival seeing them live in the end of April, and what they played from this forthcoming album is very promising! : D I know I am looking very much forward to the day it can be found in the stores. MAYBE I even manage to make more people looking forwards to this day with blogging about it! :D Optimistic? Maybe a bit!

Look also, how nice coverarts they have!







Actually, if I'd get my will these pictures would be all fancy next to the text I wrote about what's smart to check out or not, but since blogspot won't cooperate just there this will do. And yes, the apple is abit weird. But I love the other covers. Beautiful : )

I hope Fjoergyn turned out to be your taste, and that you can find as much pleasure in this music as I do!

http://www.fjoergyn.de