News & Updates | Archive News 2002 - 2010

2010:

10.03.10: New Merchandise!  All Empires Fall DVD in stock!!!  Click Here.
26.02.10: New Interview Posted, New Fan Tattoo Submission Posted
21.02.10: New Shows Listed, added links to DVD preorders
26.01.10: New Message (see below), New interview, New tattoo pic posted
11.01.10: Info on new DVD release! Click Here!

2009:

19.10.09: New Message
21.09.09: Prices Reduced Again on Select Merchandise; Click Here

2008:

26.11.08: USA Tour Announcement, Paganfest 2, May 2009.
26.11.08: New Message (October)
23.09.08: New Message
30.05.08: +Dong Open Air Fest CANCELLED, click HERE for explanation. + 3 New Reviews uploaded.
20.05.08: +New Message posted, see below.
25.04.08: +A couple festival dates updated and a link to a new interview added.
19.04.08: +Heidenfest 2008 Tour Confirmed for November  +New Message from Nemtheanga
27.02.08: +New Show Confirmed (Graspop)  +New review posted
15.02.08: +New Shows Confirmed  +New interviews and reviews posted
08.02.08:
+New Message posted, see below.  +New 2008 Festival appearance
17.01.08: Happy New Year! New 2008 Festival appearances confirmed.  Hove Festival in Norway, Tuska in Finland, Hard Rock Laager in Estonia, With Full Force in Germany and Dong Open Air in Germany.  Click HERE for more details and a full listing of all upcoming festival appearances.

2007:

26.12.07: Click HERE for a new review of "To the Nameless Dead" from Apeshit.org Webzine.  And Click HERE for 2 new interviews with Nemtheanga.

21.12.07: New Festival appearances confirmed.  Summer Breeze in Germany, Metal Mania in Poland and Cat-Rock Fest in Germany.  Click HERE for more details.

"To The Nameless Dead" was named the Number 2 album of 2007 by About.com.  Click HERE for more info.

29.11.07: Click HERE for more reviews of "To the Nameless Dead".  Click HERE for some more recent interviews.

PRIMORDIAL are CONFIRMED to play the next Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany in August 2008!!!!!

18.11.07: Click HERE for more reviews of "To the Nameless Dead".

Various Critical Acclaim:

ROCK HARD: ALBUM OF THE MONTH and 9 of 10 Points
HAMMER: ALBUM OF THE MONTH and 7 of 7 Points
HEAVY: KNALLER AUSSER KONKURRENZ and 12 of 12 Points
LEGACY: ALBUM OF THE MONTH and 14 of 15 Points
ZILLO: Place 4 in Soundcheck
SOLDOUT: 13 of 15 Points
XAVER: 6 of 6 Points
AARDSCHOK (Holland): ALBUM OF THE MONTH
METAL HAMMER (England): ALBUM OF THE MONTH – SUBTERRANEA Section
ZERO TOLERANCE (England): ALBUM OF THE ISSUE
METAL HAMMER (Greece): ALBUM OF THE MONTH
CLOSE-UP (Sweden): Soundcheck #6
SCREAM (Norway): Ranked position 3 and 5 out of 6 Points
ROCK HARD (France): 9/10 + ALBUM OF THE MONTH

Click HERE for some more recent interviews.

Also check out the new Primordial Feature on Metal.de that includes a review, an article about the To the Nameless Dead listening session, a video interview and a competition.

25.10.07:  Reviews of "To The Nameless Dead":



ONLY OTHER BAND TO EVER DO THIS IN GERMANY?
IRON MAIDEN!

18.10.07:  The Gathering Wilderness available soon on picture disc vinyl.  For more info click HERE!

The Primordial Biography has finally been updated thru 2007.  Click HERE to read up on the history of Primordial.

Some new interviews and the first review of To the Nameless Dead uploaded, click HERE to read them.

15.10.07:  NEW SONG, EMPIRE FALLS, POSTED ON THE OFFICIAL PRIMORDIAL MYSPACE PAGE, CLICK HERE TO LISTEN.  AND BE SURE TO ADD US!!!!

13.08.07:  Press Release for the new album, click HERE

"TO THE NAMELESS DEAD" RELEASE DATES:

Germany / Austria / Switzerland / Italy: November 16, 2007
Rest of Europe:
November 19, 2007
USA:
November 27, 2007

PLEASE READ: Help save The Hill of Tara from the M3 Motorway.  Click HERE and HERE to find out more.

2006:
If you have Live video footage of Primordial; Please contact us at nemtheanga@hotmail.com

July 5
- Added an interview with Vampire Magazine and an English version of the interview that was done at Rockfabrik during the recent tour.

- Added links to some photos from the Eindhoven show of the Heathen Crusade Tour.

June 1
- Added 24 photos from the Minneapolis show to the Gallery page.  Photos were taken by Nacht of TYPHUS.

May 30
- Added a tattoo photo from Teresa in Sweden, check it out on the Tattoos page.
- Added a few more photos from the Portugal mini-tour to the Gallery page.
- Added a link on the Interviews page to an interview conducted at the Rockfabrik show during the recent tour.  The interview is in German.  Just go to the E-Zine section of the site to view the interview. 

May 26
- We now have a Merchandise page.

April 24
- Added links to photos from the Heathen Crusade tour to the Gallery page.

April 21
- Added the tour report from the Heathen Crusade European Tour to the Tour Reports page.

April 3
- Added an interview from Temnozor to the Interviews page.

March 26
- Added some photos from the Portugal Mini-tour to the Gallery page.

March 22
- Added some miscellaneous live, promo and fun photos to the Gallery.  Changed the header image.  Also added a new backdrop for STEEL TORMENTOR to Nemtheanga's Art page.

March 16
- Added some photos from the Heathen Crusade Metalfest to the Gallery page.

March 14
- The Gathering Wilderness voted 7th Best and 10th Best Album of the Year by Hammer Germany and Loud Portugal respectively.  For all the awards/critical acclaim that The Gathering Wilderness has received, click HERE.

- Changed the front page of the site a little to make things less cluttered.

February 23rd
- Due to all the problems with the .tk service (many people not being able to access the site), we have registered a new domain for the site.  The new domain is primordialweb.com.  So please update all your bookmarks.

- I added some photos from past shows (Generation Armageddon tour 2003, Arnhem Metal Meeting 2004, Kaltenbach Open Air 2004, Summer Breeze 2004) to the Gallery page.

February 14th
- Primordialweb gets a new webmaster:

Alas, after almost 4 years I have to hand over the reigns of the site to a new webmaster. I no longer have the time to keep the site up to date, but I've had a great time doing the site and like to Thank
Nemtheanga and Primordial for trusting me with the site. Good luck to Kris with the future of the site, hope you have a good time doing the site!

Cheers,
Justin

February 10th
- European Tour w/ Moonsorrow & Mourning Beloveth [
click for dates]

January 26th
- PORTUGUESE MINI TOUR 2006
16.02-thu- PT- Porto - Hard Club
17.02-fri- PT - Corroios - Cine-Teatro
18.02-sat- PT - Loule - Satori

- THE GATHERING WILDERNESS voted 7th best album of the year by Greek Metal Invader

voted 21st best album of the year by Terrorizer (Uk) here's what they said...

"getting the year off to a fine start. Primordial found a themselves a new label, hooked up with Billy Anderson and delivered their darkest and most melancholic work to date. Incorporating a heavy feel for the music of their homeland, this was the musical equivalent of drowning the sorrows by candlelight under a bleak sky..."

however we were also voted joint 10th best band of 2005 by the readers of Terrorizer, joint with Strapping young lad. finishing behind the likes of iron maiden, opeth, mastodon, arch enemy et al...

Voted 7th best of the year by Friedhof Magazine [link]

- TOUR DATES WITH MOONSORROW AND MOURNING BELOVETH + 1
TO BE ANNOUNCED VERY VERY SOON.....

January 18th
- New message

2005:

November 17th
- " I've been getting a few emails from disgruntled people who came to see us on the xmass fest tour with hypocrisy and exodus only to find out once they got there we were not playing. apparently in some venues and areas our name had not been taken off the promotion or the tickets. we can only say this was entirely not our fault as we informed the promoters as early as late September we would not be taking part in this tour for reasons we've already gone into on this site...
keep watching this site and your local press for something interesting coming up in a few months." /Nemtheanga

- The Gathering Wilderness voted 3rd best album of 2005 by the writers of UNRESTRAINED MAGAZINE [CANADA] - Unrestrained link
01. OPETH - Ghost Reveries (Roadrunner)
02. NEVERMORE - The Godless Endeavour (Century Media)
******03. PRIMORDIAL - The Gathering Wilderness (Metal Blade)********
04. CLUTCH - Robot Hive/Exodus (DRT)
05. LURKER OF CHALICE - Lurker Of Chalice (Southern Lord/Total Holocaust)
06. DEATHSPELL OMEGA - Kenose (N.E.D./Ajna Offensive)
07. CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - In The Arms Of God (Sanctuary)
08. HYPOCRISY - Virus (Nuclear Blast)
09. STRAPPING YOUNG LAD - Alien (Century Media)
10. BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME - Alaska (Victory)
11. DARK TRANQUILLITY - Character (Century Media)
12. ULVER - The Blood Inside (The End)
13. NAPALM DEATH - The Code Is Red... Long Live The Code (Century Media)
14. RAMMSTEIN - Rosenrot (Universal)
15. TORCHE - Torche (Robotic Empire)
16. GREEN CARNATION - The Quiet Offspring (The End Records)
17. LEAVES' EYES - Vinland Saga (Napalm)
18. JESU - Jesu (Hydra Head)
19. SLOUGH FEG - Atavism (Cruz Del Sur)
20. RED KNIFE LOTTERY - So Much Drama (Uprising


November 17th
- PRIMORDIAL CONFIRMED FOR XMASS FESTIVALS IN THE LOWLANDS

Saturday 18th December - 013 TILBURG, HOLLAND
Sunday 19th December - HOF TER LO, ANTWERP, BELGIUM

these will be our first shows (and only shows of 2005) in holland belgium
for the gathering wilderness.

please note, we will be playing early on the bill in antwerp as we have a
flight to catch early on sunday so expect us onstage at about 3 pm or
something like that...

- PRIMORDIAL SPLIT 7" OUT NOW ON SENTINEL RECORDS...
email: sales@sentinelireland.com

 

November 3rd
- XMASS TOUR WITH MORBID ANGEL CANCELLED

October 23rd
- New Message added
- New tour dates
- Review added [read...]

October 2nd
- 30 questions on how Metal really is with Nemtheanga by the infamous Isten magazine [read...]
- Tour date added - FIRST US show! [heathencrusade.com]

August 19th
- Competition [read...]
- German tour report [
read...]
- Live dates added

July 31st
- Gallery: Headbangers Open Air warm-up Photos
- 1 New
Interview uploaded
- Tour date added

July 21st
- New message
- re-release info

July 8th
- Portuguese tour report [
read...]

May 25th
- Calling All Greek Fans - Nemtheanga DJ Nite - An Club Athens - Sun 5 June (w/ Duncan Patterson ex Anathema/Anti matter)
- 6 New
Reviews uploaded
- PRIMORDIAL - MAEL MORDHA - split 7" out on sentinel records

our first 7" is a split with Irish band Mael Mordha (some of you may have met Gerry helping us out on tour ?...that's his band !) on Irish label Sentinel Records

so for advance orders and pre sales email
sales@sentinelireland.com
http://www.sentinelireland.com/
it's a live version of soul must sleep from 2003

May 18th
- New Shirt available at MetalBlade.de store
- Tour date added

April 28th
- New Message
- Tour date added

April 26th
- Gathering Wilderness available as Double Vinyl LP from Metal Blade

- Do you have a primordial tattoo ?
We've seen quite a few on our travels. If you do send it in to the new tattoo section [email]

April 22nd
- Fan Tattoo section up
- Links updated

April 10th
- New Tour date added

April 6th
- More Tour dates added

March 24th
- New Message uploaded

March 17th
- 5 New
Interview uploaded
- 1 New
Review uploaded

March 3rd
- 1 New Review added [read review]
- 1 New Interview uploaded [
Read more...]
- More Tour dates added
- Banner [Nemtheanga Art]

Feb 21st
- 2 New
Interview uploaded
- More Tour dates added
- Links Section updated

Feb 17th
- "you may be wondering where the images came from for the cover of the new album...and stupidly we forgot to put it in the liner notes who took what. Adrian Butler from Irish doomlads Mourning Beloveth took it...sorry we didn't credit you Adrian. We owe you. And for good measure he took the live pic in the inside of the Burning Season cd as well..."

Feb 14th
New  booking contact:
DRAGON PRODUCTIONS
a division of A.S.S. Concert & Promotion GmbH
Rahlstedter Strasse 92 a
22149 Hamburg
Germany
http://www.dragon-productions.com
Phone: +49-40-675 699-36
Fax:   +49-40-677 89 33

Jan 27th
- Loads of Interviews uploaded
- 6
Reviews uploaded

Jan 13th
- New Message up
- Interview and Review from Metal Strike (Both are in Spanish)
    - Interview: http://www.metalstrike.com/ver_entrevista.php?id=7

    - Review: http://www.metalstrike.com/ver_critica.php?id=12

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