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░ ██ ██ Artist: Primeval Realm ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Primordial Light █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2014 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2015-10-14 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Pure Steel Records ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ Sadly, I am reading all too often these days about █
█ bands that have such amazing potential, but threw █
█ in the towel WAAAAAY too early. This is a fate █
█ that has befallen many bands, especially great █
█ ones from the 80's, and even newer generation █
█ bands like Wisconsin's Aphotic, and now these █
█ guys. Released in March of 2014 after putting out █
█ three demos in one year, this band threw in the █
█ towel a month or two after this album hit the █
█ shelves. █
█ And what an album it is! It's doom metal to be █
█ sure, complete with a rather unique voice that █
█ isn't too high or low (but can reach some dark and █
█ doomy depths at one place on 'Night Of The Wolf █
█ Moon'). Soaring vocal work is to be found █
█ throughout, and you'll be singing the choruses to █
█ quite a few of these cuts in no time. And they █
█ aren't afraid to break the doom metal mold either; █
█ these tracks don't always crawl along and doom █
█ dance on your face! Still, what cuts the points █
█ mightily is that out of 7 songs, with a very short █
█ running time of 39 minutes (quite unheard of in █
█ the doom metal realm), there's THREE █
█ INSTRUMENTALS!!! Your standard intro, still nice, █
█ and midway through a 7 minute piece called 'Galaxy █
█ Lifter' which contains interesting shredding (a █
█ doom metal "guitar hero" track?) and psychedelic █
█ Hammond organ sounds. Your final instrumental █
█ contains some spoken word passages, which may not █
█ count as "instrumental" to some, though daring to █
█ combine pianos with acoustic guitars and then █
█ adding flutes to the mix is a rather bold move █
█ that works well. █
█ Axe work is superb. Whether they're channeling the █
█ spirit of Bruce Franklin with some nasty and heavy █
█ guitar bite that Trouble themselves have "trouble" █
█ managing these days (excuse the pun), or showing █
█ off their love of Scott Wino era Spirit Caravan █
█ (what the cut 'Black Flames And Shadows' reminds █
█ me of), it's obvious that this band brings a LOT █
█ of diversity to the table, MUCH more than many █
█ bands in this genre can muster... And it's only █
█ their first (and sadly, only) full length! Sad to █
█ see another bright, promising hopeful up and leave █
█ the scene, because I dare say with such innovation █
█ and diversity, this band could be headed onto █
█ brighter and much larger things... █
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░ 1. A Primeval Realm 1:33 ░
░ 2. Black Flames & Shadows 8:27 ░
░ 3. Electric Knowledge 5:38 ░
░ 4. Galaxy Lifter 7:10 ░
░ 5. Heavy is This Mind 5:48 ░
░ 6. Night of the Wolfmoon 7:18 ░
░ 7. Primordial Light... Departure 4:00 ░
░ 39:54 ░
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