Primordial aren't a new band. They've been around upwards of 20 years, and Where Greater Men Have Fallen is their eighth album. By some accounts, they're Ireland's first-ever black metal band. Primordial aren't really a black metal band, at least at this point, but they're perfectly capable of launching into that hummingbird-blastbeat moody-noise thing. They really find liftoff, though, on a song like "Ghosts Of The Charnel House" - locking into a dinosaur-stomp riff, playing it slowly enough that it can really connect, and then letting frontman Alan Averill just open up his throat and howl.
01 Where Greater Men Have Fallen 02 Babel's Tower 03 Come The Flood 04 The Seed Of Tyrants 05 Ghosts Of The Charnel House 06 The Alchemist's Head 07 Born To Night 08 Wield Lightning To Split The Sun