Originally posted on Valkyrian Music.

In +25 years of attending concerts, I can only remember three concerts that went on for two hours: ICED EARTH (the “Horror Show” tour, which coincided with the release of the boxset “Dark Genesis” and so the band decided to play a little bit of their full discography so far, with three different stage sets); QUEENSRYCHE (the “Operation: Mindcrime” 20th anniversary tour where they performed both the album and its sequel in full) and MOONSPELL (the 20th anniversary of “Irreligious”, where they also played the whole “Wolfheart” and “Extinct” albuns). PRIMORDIAL was now the fourth, but the first without any special reason for it, apart from “not being like one of these new bands who play for an hour and go home” (quoting Nemtheanga himself). You’ve probably done the math by now: more time to play, less key-songs left out of the set, even if they have to insert new ones out of the latest “Exile Amongst The Ruins”. Plus, if you know how charismatic Nemtheanga is, you know how intense every minute of a PRIMORDIAL show can be; 120 of them is something just beyond words.

Nemtheanga recalled several times their first show in Portugal, 20 years ago, praising “his friend” José Costa for it, and also mentioned the last time they’ve played at Hard Club (although that gig happened in the original venue, on the other side of the river, but that he didn’t seem to remember). Such sweet nostalgia, brought on not just by the older songs…

From “Nail Their Tongues” to “Empire Falls”, going through “To Hell Or The Hangman” or – my all-time favorite – “The Coffin Ships”, this concert was a roller-coaster ride of emotions that will hardly be forgotten by any of the presents.

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Sláinte!