Primal Fear (Official Thread)

[LG]

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Primal Fear Official Website

Here's a band I really enjoy, a throwback to the days of Priest and Maiden, Primal Fear. Founded by Ralph Scheepers who was a member in Kai Hansen's band Gamma Ray for a few years. After trying out for the vacant vocalist spot in Judas Priest years ago but not getting chosen, him and his guitarist played around with the old metal songs and enjoyed the results so much they formed Primal Fear. I have all of their albums, so I'll go in chronological order.

Their self titled debut album was released in 1998, drew a lot of attention, the sound reminded everyone of the earlier days of just good old heavy metal, which is how I would describe their sound.

Line Up:

Ralph Scheepers - Vocals
Tom Naumann - Guitars & Keyboards
Klaus Sperling - Drums & Percussion
Matt Sinner - Bass Guitar, Keyboards & Vocals

Albums:

Primal Fear (1998)
Jaws of Death (1999)
Nuclear Fire (2001)
Black Sun (2002)
Devil's Ground (2004)
Seven Seals (2005)
New Religion (2007)
16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) (2009)
Unbreakable (2012)
Delivering the Black (2014)
Rulebreaker (2016)
Apocalypse (2018)

Here's a great song, Chainbreaker.





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[Magic]

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Great album cover, LG. I dont know this band. Great song you posted, though. I will have to check them out.

 

[LG]

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The follow up album kept the theme of the first, and cemented Primal Fear's place as a 90's metal band to be reckoned with. They are not trying to invent anything new here, just pure old school metal and they succeeded big time with 1999's release "Jaws of Death".

When the Night Comes.





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[LG]

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Following Jaws of Death, came Nuclear Fire released in 2001. Another solid album, nothing surprising or different from the first two, which is fine with me. I can't help but time travel a little when I play these CD's, they would have fit in perfectly with the old NWOBHM, except it would have been the NWOGHM instead seeing they are from Germany.

Angel in Black.








I love the theme of their covers, gives you a good idea about what's inside.​

 

[Pistol]

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I love this band, haven't heard too much of their stuffs, just one album 'Nuclear Fire' and it's awesome.

 

[LG]

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Hey great to see your name in the threads Pistol.

I love this band too, I have all of their albums, just a throwback to the earlier days of heavy metal music.

 

[Pistol]

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I'm busy for a while due to my coming board exams, i'll be posting more later.
Anyway, i rarely like power metal bands and they fall among the one i like.

 

[LG]

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Opposite for me I like power metal bands more than most of the other varieties, it sounds the closest to the older metal I grew up with, plus I like clean vocals I can understand too.

Good luck with your exams.

 

[Pistol]

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Ha ha and that is main difference betn us, i like clean vocals along with growling one.
And thanks LG.

 

[METALPRIEST]

Primal Fear!!

A Thread to tribute this killer band out of Germany! The New CD is great! I'll start with their new video! Please share photos,vids,pics, opinions, stories....