PRIMORDIAL Frontman's Voice 'Disappears' During BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR Performance

August 15, 2011

Vocalist Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill of Irish pagan metal masters PRIMORDIAL has released the following statement regarding the band's appearance at this year's edition of the Bloodstock Open Air festival, which was held August 12-14, 2011 at Catton Hall in Derbyshire, United Kingdom:

"Firstly I have to thank everyone for their support and dedication during a very difficult show at Bloodstock on Sunday; we were all deeply humbled by everyone's response and hearing your voices loud and clear singing our own songs back to us was moving.

"The simple fact is from one line to the next my voice completely disappeared. From feeling perfectly normal, within seconds I could not even whisper. This has never happened to me before in my twenty years of singing. Slowly my voice came back and if we had another hour left I would have been able to sing again. It seems to have either been an allergic reaction to something I ate or drank that morning mixed with a complete dehydration of the vocal cords.

"Sitting here typing this, I am more or less back to normal. I can only rationalise it that it happens to the best of us and the law of averages states eventually it was going to happen if you play enough shows. This doesn't help the fact that I was and am still gutted we could not give 100% because before it happened, the show was shaping up to be incredible... we could all feel the energy and electricity.

"I can only humbly apologise and hope that we can come back very soon to make it up to all of you. I am only human, and, unfortunately, also are my vocal cords.

"This all said, we have to thank you all for your understanding, dedication and support as we were all moved by this and also immense thanks to the staff and crew of Bloodstock who really showed their worth and understanding. Much respect to all of you... and hopefully I can chalk this one down to experience."

PRIMORDIAL's new album, "Redemption At The Puritan's Hand", was released on April 26 via Metal Blade Records.

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