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samhains message
ok I know I've been lazy, in fact more then
lazy. but better late then never. There's quite a lot to report so
I'll get on with the task in hand. Our performance a few weeks ago at
the Metal Blade Europe ten years anniversary bash really spelt for us
the end of the Summer season of festivals and gigs here and there we
have been doing. Sure there are a few more here and there but our
concentration now is the xmass festival tour together with Morbid
Angel, Unleashed, Ensiferum, Enthroned and Origin (you'll find the
dates at the bottom of the page...). We are on the bill as long as the
tour happens, that's official its just in our hands right now to pull
the strings in our private life...boring reasons you don't want to
know about but ones that every band faces with the prospect of coming
home with less money then they make in their jobs and the older you
get the harder it gets. In a utopian world of course Primordial would
be as big as Opeth for example and we could simply worry only about
music but life doesn't work like that so...we struggle on and cross
bridges when we come to them. We haven't crossed this one yet but it
looms on the horizon.
There's been a few shows to report as well. We played an excellent
show in
hungary. I don't know if I mentioned that before but it was
great to finally get there and receive a great response from the
people there, we hope to be back again sometime in your lifetime. kaltenbach open air in Austria was also a good show for us although
playing second last out of something like 20 bands second day really
isn't the best for any band, with a lot of people too drunk and tired
to really pay much attention and
sadly for Destruction after with less then 100 people paying attention
to them. Wacken open air was in general something of a wash out,
anyone who was there knows exactly what I mean. Our show there was
more or less a carbon copy of the show we played there in 2001. It was
frustrating again to be on the tent stage although it was packed and
the reaction was awesome but we clearly deserve a chance on a bigger
stage but the way we looked at it was simple. We have an album out now
so lets play now while we have some momentum, we could have played
next year but who knows we could have left it and found we had the
same slot or were playing at 10 am on friday morning or something. Up
from the Ground was a good show although playing in the day really
makes it hard to create some kind of atmosphere but it went well.
Hells Pleasure on the other hand was a very long day and we thank
everyone who held on to see us, it certainly got a little long in the
tooth for us to be there till 2 am waiting to play some 12 hours after
we arrived on the site. Hence why we were a little worse for the
drink...well me especially.
Id like to thank Tim from Trimonium for his understanding concerning
my little misdemeanour that evening !!!...as someone said in the
guestbook it was sick and violent show. Greece was as usual great and
it was a lot of fun to have our country mates
Mourning Beloveth out there with us. The couple of days we were all
there had everything really...a fly on the wall documentary would have
been compulsive viewing and showed the somewhat shocking way young men
treat their livers. One thing is for sure though, paying 20/25 euro
into a show down there when the average wage is 150e per week puts
things into perspective. Thessaloniki was a strange but good show
although the PA fucking up for the last 4 songs wasn't the greatest
way to end the evening.
Athens was a huge show and must go down as one of the best Primordial
shows ever...we've got to thank Nikos (ex damaged prod) for the huge
effort he put in to make the shows happen under some very difficult
circumstances...not least some low life's trying to sabotage the show.
However it happened and anyone who was there in Athens knows the magic
that happened that night. So to all the saboteurs who've been on
forums saying the show was awful etc...we'll be back in Greece again,
most definitely I will so next time you never know you can explain
your actions to my face...
And so to the
Metal Blade anniversary party, well it was a pleasure to meet some of
the American side of the label and Mr. Slagel himself and also very
nice to play a club show in Germany to about 800 people, which for us
is usually 4 dates of a normal tour in one night !!!. It was obvious
this was Amon Amarth's night as well they are fucking huge in Germany
but I think we got our message across and you never know you might see
Amon Amarth and Primordial sharing more stages together in 2006. We
played the Antichrist by Slayer as well which went down well and
without too many mistakes. Under estimate those old Slayer tracks at
your peril !...they are hard to do justice to. And in the end myself,
Mick and Simon got dragged up together with Gerrit from Sacred Steel
and Anton from Criminal to play Black Magic. yeah I played the
bass...the less said the better !.
So now we have Sundown in Gailsdorf and Tyrants festival in October
coming up...check the tour section. And one show. Metal Meeting in
November....The split 7" with Mael Mordha has been sent to the
pressing plant and the pre-orders have it nearly sold out so if you
want a copy email Brian from Sentinel at sales@sentinelireland.com
So that's about everything, we have started working on some new songs
(shock and horror....) but its really too early to say anything about
them. But you never know it might take us less then 3 years to make
the next album !...
Hopefully we will see you on tour in December with Morbid Angel !!!
Nemtheanga
playlist
hammers of misfortune - the august engine
marduk - those of the unlight
the woven hand - everything !!!! thanks morgan !!!
neurosis - times of grace
y n t - earthshaker rock
candlemass - candlemass
der blutharsch - loads
reverend bizarre - crush the insects
negura bunget - new mcd
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