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Primal Fear - Primal Fear



7.6 | 161 votes |
Release date: 1998
Style: Power metal

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01. Primal Fear
02. Chainbreaker
03. Silver And Gold
04. Promised Land
05. Formula One
06. Dollars
07. Nine Lives
08. Tears Of Rage
09. Speedking [Deep Purple cover]
10. Battalions Of Hate
11. Running In The Dust
12. Thunderdome
13. Breaker [Accept cover] [Deluxe bonus]
14. Chainbreaker [Live version] [Deluxe bonus]
15. Running In The Dust [Live version] [Deluxe bonus]

Additional info
Re-released as Deluxe Mediabook edition with an 28-page booklet and 3 bonus tracks on 15.07.2022.

Staff review by
Pierre Tombale
Rating:
7.5
Out of the power-metal-mass-production-facilities of Germany arose Primal Fear to record their same titled debut Album in 1998. Of course this band is member of the 'Helloween-GammaRay-Iron Saviour-family' or how do you explain the guest appearance of Kai Hansen? (The man !seems! to appear on every german power metal production). Soundlike the album is oriented towards Judas Priest's Painkiller and the 'you-know-how-to-play-GammaRay' stuff. Even the cover makes you think of Judas Priest, but rather the 'Screaming For Vengeance' album, since the picture (or better all covers) contain iron eagles that remind you of the mentioned Priest album.

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published 22.06.2004 | Comments (5)

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Comments: 8   Visited by: 140 users
13.11.2015 - 21:19
Rating: 6
JOPE OF STEELE
Steelemeister
Decent start for Primal Fear, but honestly I don't think that the band had reached nowhere near to their maximum song writing capabilities when this album was composed. Sure, you can hear a lot of similarities here to the following albums, that would showcase some amazing heavy metal, but for this S/T album the amazingness only applies to "Tears Of Rage". I guess you could also mention the fan favorite "Chainbreaker" here, but I don't think that that song is anything more than a good generic heavy metal song, and that will become even more evident after hearing the following PF albums.
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31.01.2019 - 22:09
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Decent metal opener, whit this heavy weights, good german HM machine whit solid line up and musicians. Good amazing band and like some says singer and song writers all are what makes band, an Ralf is good one. All songs stands out here, simply all!!! amazing
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I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens.

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07.10.2019 - 09:10
Rating: 6
majormalfunction
Quite many fillers and some of the more profilic tracks are not in my taste (Chainbreaker, Running in the Dust) but the album is still somewhat enjoyable. Silver And Gold, Battalions of Hate, Tears of Rage and Forumla One are all nice. They would get better but they would also release worse albums.
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09.01.2020 - 02:27
Rating: 7
Hrodebert
Best Preist cover band ever looooooll
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09.01.2020 - 09:34
JoHn Doe
Written by Hrodebert on 09.01.2020 at 02:27

Best Preist cover band ever looooooll

not a cover band at all, now if you wanted to sound cool, you could have used the word "pastiche".
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30.08.2020 - 14:56
Rating: 8
Mountain King
K i K o
Why is this album worth a listen? Answer: "Battalions Of Hate", "Running In The Dust", "Tears Of Rage" and to a lesser extent "Chainbreaker".
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13.05.2022 - 20:10
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
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I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens.

Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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03.07.2022 - 20:56
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
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I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens.

Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"

I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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