PRIMORDIAL Frontman: 'The Real Honest Metal Being Made Out There Today Is In The Underground'

May 14, 2008

Vocalist Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill of the of the Irish dark metal masters PRIMORDIAL has posted a lengthy message on the band's MySpace blog. An excerpt follows.

"It's often I look with dismay at the state of the modern metal scene, calculated and plastic, little different to corporate boy and girl bands. Of course, I am not naive to ever believe it was that different, but it was, wasn't it? There is a grain of truth there. Surely it cannot have ever been so damn safe, so toothless and hollow in the mainstream. Where is the adrenalin rush, the violence, aggression, darkness, the filth and blood under your fingernails? Making a stand albeit often a reactionary one but honest just the same against society? Maybe we have no more want in the first world and metal is just another coffee-table accessory for musical hobbyists who treat everything in terms of irony and self-aggrandisement. Drowning in a slew of female-fronted gothic slush and perfectly coiffured and tattooed scenesters straight off the factory line.

"It may sound like an irony to be blogging such a rant on MySpace, which is often the very root of the non-linear and instant nature of many of the kids into metal now who have no more interest in finding out the roots and history of the rather average bands who profit most it. However, it would be somewhat pointless me using a sword when a gun is in the next drawer, right?

"The real honest metal being made out there today is in the underground just look for it, don't get fed the party line without thinking. If you are starting a band, look into your own history, your own culture. Don't become Mediterranean or Pacific Vikings, run aground on the shores of convention and your own stitled imagination. Open yourself up and make a stand for something...you may never get another opportunity."

Read the entire message at this location.

PRIMORDIAL's latest album, "To the Nameless Dead", was released in November 2007 on Metal Blade Records.

PRIMORDIAL performing in Dublin (2008)

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