Imrama

Imrama

Infobox Album |
Name = Imrama
Type = studio
Artist = Primordial


Released = 1995
Recorded = 58:43
Genre = Pagan metal
Length =
Label = Cacophonous Records
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Dark Romanticism (1993)
This album = "Imrama" (1995)
Next album = "A Journey's End" (1998)

"Imrama" is the debut album of the Irish pagan metal band Primordial. It was originally released in 1995. In 2000, it was re-issued by Hammerheart Records with two bonus tracks.

"Imrama", meaning 'voyages' or literally 'rowings about' refers to a category of medieval Irish Christian literature in which a protagonist sets about voyaging in penance for sins committed. Medieval catelogues of literature see this genre as contrasting with "Eachtra", 'expeditions' or 'adventures' in which the protagonist visits the Otherworld of Irish traditional lore.

In Ireland, an overwhelmingly English speaking country, usage of the Irish language is an outward expression of Irish identity, which is a central theme of Primordial's aesthetic and appeal. Imrama, correctly pronounced with a stressed first syllable and voiced labiodental fricative second 'm', is pronounced by the band themselves (as native speakers of English, ignorant of the Irish language and it's orthography reading the word would) with a stressed second syllable and bilabial nasal second 'm'.

Track listing

# "Fuil Ársa" – 4:44
# "Infernal Summer" – 6:11
# "Here I Am King" – 4:26
# "The Darkest Flame" – 5:18
# "The Fires..." – 5:23
# "Mealltach" – 1:28
# "Let the Sun Set on Life Forever" – 4:26
# "To the Ends of the Earth" – 5:29
# "Beneath a Bronze Sky" – 3:27
# "Awaiting the Dawn" – 5:00
# "The Calling" – 4:56 *
# "Among the Lazarae" – 7:52 *:* bonus tracks on re-issue


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