To The Nameless Dead - Primordial

As the accompanying booklet explains, Primordial's sixth full length 'To The Nameless Dead' is themed around national identity, not in any xenophobic or politically narrow sense, but rather in the more abstract sense of the importance of connection with and celebration of one's ancestors, whomever they may be. Both the lyrics and the extensive liner notes that accompany them in the booklet are focused around rejection of the modern globalist vision of all of humanity as one homogenous monocultural mass whereby the traditional and cultural fabric of individual nations is seen as largely unimportant, and these words are accompanied by old sepia-toned pictures depicting ...  Read the complete review

To The Nameless Dead is Primordial's most recent offering of ear bludgeoning noise, the Irish bands album contains 8 tracks and a bonus DVD containing tracks taken from a live concert in 2006. Primordial seemlessly fuse black metal and celtic metal, the vocals of A.A. Nemtheanga sound like a mad man ranting and whilst initially seeming extremely powerful, soon seem to become a bit old. The band themselves described the album as having a "real f***ing drum sound", and he's not exaggerating, the drumming is relentless in this album, so much so that it seems to lack a bit of thought at times, this is made up for on the melodic tunes, in ...  Read the complete review