Some bands are just made up to play alive and record those majestic albums that will be remembered for a long time. I don’t know, but when I listen to tracks as “How It Ends“ I feel they are simply made to be performed alive. Its intensity touches me in a way so hard to explain. And, perhaps, it is the response of the crowd that made this take so unique. Or maybe, it is just the way Primordial perform their music as the seven-minute intensity and emotion of “To Hell Or The Hangman” tell us. Alive albums are about this. As simple as that. Raw emotion is what they are made of. “Live in New York City” delivers plenty of them.
From day one with “As Rome Burns,” the fan that does not know the fan as I do not will feel the intense emotion that comes from the amplifiers. Primordial are a band that really knows how to pass all emotion they feel to the fan and this alive album allows us to recognize it. With the flaming guitars of “Lain With The Wolf” I realized how suberb it is this music that sounds so epic and grand at the same time. Only pure emotion. The power of “No Grave Deep Enough” almost astonishes the unadvised fan that got used with the cadenced and intense tracks so far. Pretty rough guitars with mesmerizing riffing.
The dear children of the night that follow me here know sometimes I make comparisons that even I cannot explain well. So, I have to say that when I hear a track as “Gods To The Godless,” and, as a matter of fact, other ones my heart gos with the mighty Twisted Sister and their darker tracks as “Burn in Hell,” one of the most underrated bands of all time. They look weird, but their music is true. I guess it is vocalist A.A. Nemtheanga‘s voice. Maybe not. Maybe it is just me and my weird memories. But the thing is, the feeling while listening to a Twisted Sister‘s album is the same.
I am perfectly aware Primordial are not a Black Metal band, but they really got the spirit and added some Folk Metal features embellishing them with potent epic tunes. Tracks as the afomentioned “No Grave Deep Enough” have some Black Metal features as the mesmerizing guitars without the harsh vocals. It is tru that “The Coffin Ships” has some elements of Folk Metal as well, but the spirit – oh, boy this one does not lie – is Black. “Victory Has 100 Fathers, Defeat Is An Orphan” crowns the album as its grande finale adding some more battlecry spice. Well, its title says a lot. By the way, as we were talking about weird comparisons, the guitars here sounded a lot to me as Big Country’s. Just saying…
Primordial “Live in New York City” will be released on November 07th via Metal Blade Records.
Track Listing:
- As Rome Burns
- No Grave Deep Enough
- The Golden Spiral
- How It Ends
- To Hell Or The Hangman
- Lain With The Wolf
- Gods To The Godless
- Gallows Hymn
- Bloodied Yet Unbowed
- The Coffin Ships
- Victory Has 100 Fathers, Defeat Is An Orphan
- Empire Falls
- Heathen Tribes
Watch “How It Ends” official music video here:
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