Spirit the Earth Aflame

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Spirit the Earth Aflame
Primordial studio album

Publication
(s)

2000

admission

January or February 2000

Label (s) Hammerheart Records

Title (number)

7th

running time

51:04

occupation
  • Bass : Pól MacAmlaigh
  • Drums : Simon O'Laoghaire

production

Mags and Primordial

Studio (s)

Sun Studios, Dublin

chronology
A Journey's End
(1998) 		Spirit the Earth Aflame Storm Before Calm
(2002)

Spirit the Earth Aflame is the third studio album by the Irish pagan metal band Primordial . It was released on Hammerheart Records in 2000 .

Creation and publication

After the release of the EP The Burning Season , Primordial toured in 1999 with Hades Almighty and Mayhem in Belgium and the Netherlands and with Sacred Sin and Masque of Innocence in Portugal and Spain. At the end of the year the band started working on new pieces and went into the studio in January or February 2000. Spirit the Earth Aflame was released on CD, LP and in a limited digipak with bonus title; For the tenth anniversary of the first edition, Metal Blade Records released a remastered version with a bonus CD.

Track list

  1. Spirit the Earth Aflame - 2:24
  2. Gods to the Godless - 7:47
  3. The Soul Must Sleep - 6:37
  4. The Burning Season - 8:42
  5. Glorious Dawn - 7:23
  6. The Cruel Sea - 4:03
  7. Children of the Harvest - 8:30
Bonus title 2000
  2. To Enter Pagan - 5:42
Bonus CD 2010
  1. The Darkest Flame - 6:23
  2. In Graciousness (Live) - 3:42
  3. A Blacker Art (Live) - 5:01
  4. Total Destruction ( Bathory Cover, live) - 3:37
  5. Inside the Eye of Algond ( Rotting-Christ Cover, live) - 4:07
  6. To Enter Pagan - 5:24
  7. The Calling - 4:55
  8. Among the Lazarae - 7:53
  9. Soul Must Sleep (Live) - 5:31

style

Primordial continue the path taken on The Burning Season of a difficult-to-categorize mixture of Pagan Metal , Black Metal , Folk Metal and Doom Metal . The focus is on AA Nemtheanga's haunting and varied vocals as well as Ciáran MacUiliam's heavy riffs . The melancholic, hymnic or melodic pieces are usually relatively long and slow or medium tempo. The Cruel Sea is based on a traditional Irish piece, for the lyrics of The Soul Must Sleep a passage from Jean-Paul Sartre's The Disgust was used.

reception

The album was positively received by the press. Andreas Holz from vampster criticizes the lack of gripping melodies, but attests Spirit the Earth Aflame a special “solemn, melancholy atmosphere”. Allmusic's Alex Henderson praises the musicality, complexity and aggressiveness of the album; in Rock Hard it was called a “masterpiece” and an “unbelievably beautiful disc, which is interesting for everyone who likes soulfully played, anthem-like Metal [...]”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Supplement to Spirit the Earth Aflame
  2. ↑ Primordial - Biography ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , primordialweb.com , accessed January 26, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.primordialweb.com
  3. ↑ a b Alex Henderson: Spirit the Earth Aflame at Allmusic , accessed on January 26, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Primordial. Spirit The Earth Aflame , Rock Hard # 157, accessed January 26, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b Andreas Holz: PRIMORDIAL: Spirit The Earth Aflame , vampster , accessed on January 26, 2013.