### Primal Fear: New religion

#### 09/10/07 || Euthanatos

Let me tell you the problem with Primal Fear. It’s not that they’re a bad band, because that’s not the case. Everyone plays their instruments nicely and Ralf Scheepers is a damn good vocalist. Sure, you can hate high pitched screaming, but at what he’s intending to do, yeah, he’s one of the best. It’s not that they rip off Judas Priest either, because, well, everyone rips off everyone else these days. Ripping off a seminal, legendary band like Judas isn’t the problem at all. The problem with Primal Fear is, that for every 1 good song they release, there are 150 bad, lame, boring, uninspired songs. And that is exactly the case we have once again, for the hundredth time, with “New Religion”.

Let me save you a shit-load of time, effort and money; if you’ve listened to any Primal Fear record before, you’ve already listened to this one.

All the clichés, all the power metal yadda yadda is here. We’re gonna rise over adversity, we’ll have our swords in hand, we’ll ride in the wind, for metal is our god, metal is power, metal is divine, behold the metal, my cock is metal and metal is our lives. That’s basically it.

Now, eventually, like I said, Primal Fear will throw in something worthwhile, you know, just to piss you off because you can’t completely disregard them. Through the years it was heavy riffs, something to really get your head banging. This time, oddly enough, it’s the guest appearance of Simone Simmons, the insanely hot singer of Epica.

Epica is a terrible, terrible band, unworldly boring, but Simone has nice pipes, and this song is actually really good, “Every Time It Rains”, is a slower, power-ballad kind of thing, so yeah, throw the rest of the album out, keep this one.

I love the title “The Curse of Sharon”, though. Admit it, you thought of the same person I did. The rest? Well, the rest is the same you’ve heard over, and over, and over again.

Move along, nothing to see here.

The cover: An eagle. Fancy that.

2 metal avengers ride in the night, power swords thrust in the fight out of 10.

- Information
- Released: 2007
- Label: Frontiers
- Website: www.primalfear.de
- Band
- Ralf Scheepers: vocals
- Stefan Leibing: guitars
- Henny Wolter: guitars
- Mat Sinner: bass, vocals
- Randy Black: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Sign of Fear
- 02. Face the Emptiness
- 03. Everytime it Rains
- 04. New Religion
- 05. Fighting the Darkness
- 06. Blood on Your Hands
- 07. The Curse of Sharon
- 08. Too Much Time
- 09. Psycho
- 10. World on Fire
- 11. The Man (That I Don’t Know)