The Gathering Wilderness

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The Gathering Wilderness
Primordial studio album

Publication
(s)

February 7, 2005

Label (s) Metal Blade Records

Format (s)

LP , CD

Genre (s)

Folk Metal , Pagan Metal

Title (number)

7th

running time

59:30

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

production

Billy Anderson

Studio (s)

Cauldron Studios

chronology
Storm Before Calm
(2002)
The Gathering Wilderness To the Nameless Dead
(2007)

The Gathering Wilderness is the fifth studio album by the pagan metal band Primordial ; it was released in 2005 . It was the band's first album for Metal Blade Records after they left Hammerheart Records .

backgrounds

The album was recorded and mixed in October 2004 at Cauldron Studios in Dublin by Billy Anderson (additional: Kevin Byrne) and mastered by Ciaran Byrne. The inspiration for the album title comes from the song Last Year's Man , which is on the album Songs of Love and Hate by Leonard Cohen and which says: "... that the wilderness is gathering ..." .

reception

medium Rating critic
Allmusic Cosmo Lee
Rock hard Hansi Daberger

The reviews of The Gathering Wilderness were consistently excellent, both from professional media such as Allmusic and Rock Hard , as well as from various online magazines.

Zingultus von Graupel described The Gathering Wilderness as "a lot more intense and noticeable" than most of today's black metal albums; Black Metal has to “convey a very specific atmosphere”, which “hardly anyone can do nowadays” and which is more likely to be achieved by records from other currents such as Primordials The Gathering Wilderness and My Dying Brides Turn Loose the Swans .

Above all, the song The Coffin Ships , which thematizes the Great Famine in Ireland , developed over time into one of the most famous songs of the band and reached number 175 of the 250 best hard rock and metal songs of all time in the May 2011 edition of rock hard magazine.

Track list

  1. The Golden Spiral - 8:03
  2. The Gathering Wilderness - 9:13 am
  3. The Song of the Tomb - 7:56
  4. End of All Times (Martyrs Fire) - 7:42
  5. The Coffin Ships - 9:58
  6. Tragedy's Birth - 8:31
  7. Cities Carved in Stone - 8:07

Individual evidence

  1. Thomas: Interview with Alan Nemtheanga on "The Gathering Wilderness" ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Metal.de, February 18, 2005. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metal.de
  2. ^ A b Cosmo Lee: The Gathering Wilderness - Primordial . Allmusic, accessed March 10, 2012.
  3. a b PRIMORDIAL . The Gathering Wilderness . In: Rock Hard , No. 213, accessed March 10, 2012.
  4. Michael Monz: PRIMORDIAL - The Gathering Wilderness . The Metal Observer, accessed March 10, 2012.
  5. Moritz Krüger: Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2012 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. . Metal1Info, accessed March 10, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metal1.info
  6. reini: PRIMORDIAL - The Gathering Wilderness (CD) . Stormbringer, accessed March 10, 2012.
  7. Captain Chaos: PRIMORDIAL: The Gathering Wilderness . Vampster , accessed March 10, 2012.
  8. Christian: Primordial (Ireland) "The gathering wilderness" CD . Metalglory, accessed March 10, 2012.
  9. Jan Jaedike: Graupel: Hiccups of death . In: Rock Hard , No. 285, February 2010, p. 55.
  10. Rock Hard , No. 288 (Special - Part 1), p. 86.