Primal Fear - Primal Fear - review
Primal Fear - Primal Fear - review
Tracklist
01. Primal Fear02. 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]
A review by
Pierre Tombale June 22, 2004
Enough of comparison, back to originality. The album was produced by Mat Sinner (from the band Sinner), containing one Deep Purple cover version of Speedking and guest appearances of Kai Hansen, Frank Roessler and The Hollywood Blasers (whoever they are??). Ralf Scheepers (Ex-GammaRay) is the gifted vocalist with a voice quite comparable (yes, I know I said enough comparison) to that of Rob Halford, so decision was easy to create a power metal band of several influences, talents and skills. The outcome luckily mostly doesn't sound like the rest of the family, rather like a mix of the given bands driven to a point where you can no longer deny the originality of Primal Fear. Of course there are always melodies that remind you of the heritage (this can be heard especially in the song 'Nine Lives'). Influences can be heard in the song 'Chainbreaker' and in 'Nine Lives'.
The opener, or when you put it like this: artist - album - title track number one is Primal Fear - Primal Fear - Primal Fear, which looks quite strange and unoriginal when you read it, is just an instrumental intro, mainly with synthesizers. But ist's only the opening for an album that goes through the usual stages of a power metal album with speed songs, ballads and everything in between. It is to say that the debut is not the best record Primal Fear made, but it sets the pace for what is to come, style and influences clearly mark the way, the musicians are talented and as mentioned the lead singer is very gifted, being able to sing and scream in abnormally high pitched tones. A bit outstanding among the other songs are 'Chainbreaker' and 'Tears Of Rage', Speedking' is an interesting cover.
There nothing to complain about the quality of the production (as expected), weighing pros and cons of the presented songs you can say among all visible (hearable) talent and solid appeal (and after all the contradicitions above) it's worth nothing more and nothing less than a 7.5.
Written by Pierre Tombale | June 22, 2004
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All Primal Fear songs make me think of Judas Priest  . Man I see this album in a store when I was in the U.S. , But i didn't get it 
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this is a great album.. maybe my favorite Primal Fear, maybe not - i can never tell these days the album is full of power and heavy metal though and well worth listening to 'Chainbreaker' has indeed become somewhat their signiture song now.. it is always great to listen to and great live as well
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This was a great debut, but spite the "lack" of originality you mention in your review, Primal Fear has gained a place among the big names of power metal, the "rob Halford-ish" voice of Ralf is amazing and they certainly know how to play fast and epic song. Chainbreaker deffinitely is their signature song, as Baz says.
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Thats why its not a PM but HM
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