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| Artist: Primal Fear
Label: Nuclear Blast Americ
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 234871
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1739
UPC: 727361173920
EAN: 0727361173920
ASIN: B000HWZB2S
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | Metal Is Forever - Primal Fear, Sinner | | • | Chainbreaker - Primal Fear, Primal Fear | | • | Seven Seals - Primal Fear, Sinner | | • | Nuclear Fire - Primal Fear, Sinner | | • | Final Embrace - Primal Fear, Primal Fear | | • | The Healer - Primal Fear, Sinner | | • | Rollercoaster - Primal Fear, Sinner | | • | Armageddon - Primal Fear, Sinner | | • | Angel in Black - Primal Fear, Sinner | | • | Under Your Spell - Primal Fear, Primal Fear | | • | Evil Spell - Primal Fear, Sinner | | • | Runnin in the Dust - Primal Fear, Primal Fear | | • | Suicide and Mania - Primal Fear, Sinner | | • | Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove - Primal Fear, Sinner | | • | Fear - Primal Fear, Sinner | | • | Tears of Rage - Primal Fear, Naumann ~ Scheepers |
Disc 2
| • | Out in the Fields - Primal Fear, Moore, Gary [1] | | • | Kill the King - Primal Fear, Blackmoore | | • | Speedking - Primal Fear, Blackmoore | | • | Die Young - Primal Fear, Black Sabbath | | • | Metal Gods - Primal Fear, Downing | | • | Breaker - Primal Fear, Accept | | • | Seek & Destroy - Primal Fear, Ulrich | | • | Two Minutes to Midnight - Primal Fear, Dickinson | | • | The Rover - Primal Fear, Page |
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Album Description
Limited Edition double CD pressing of this Primal Fear collection that is a comprehensive retrospective of the greatest songs ever released by Primal Fear. Features a bonus disc containing nine cover versions including legendary tracks by Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy and others. 25 tracks total. Nuclear Blast. 2006.
Album Details
The Stockholmsband Sewergrooves Deliver Here Theirs Fifth Album. With Hits Like "she's a Punk (Just for One Day)" and "remember Everything"
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 A History of Fear, and some great covers too! October 18, 2008
I'm not what you'd call a serious Primal Fear fan. Don't get me wrong, I generally enjoy their brand of Judas Priest-worshipping German power metal, and I think their last album (New Religion) is one of the decade's best power metal releases, but I never found their earlier albums to be quite as essential. They were always solid and professional, but they tended towards repetition. That's where a compilation like Metal is Forever (great title, by the way) comes in handy.
Metal is Forever: The Very Best of Primal Fear pulls together the best material from Primal Fear's back catalog, with 3 songs from 1998's Primal Fear, 2 from 1999's Jaws of Death, 3 from 2001's Nuclear Fire, 2 from 2002's Black Sun, 3 from 2004's Devil's Ground, and 3 from 2005's Seven Seals. The songs aren't in chronological order, so the transition between songs is sometimes very noticeable. Still, this is a very comprehensive overview of what Primal Fear's studio albums, and you definitely get a good idea of the kind of metal former Gamma Ray frontman (and contender to replace Rob Halford in Judas Priest) Ralf Scheepers and Sinner mainman Mat Sinner have unleashed on the world.
If that weren't enough, Metal is Forever also includes a bonus disc with 9 completely predictable (and completely awesome) cover songs. On this disc, Primal Fear takes on Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Accept, Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Led Zeppelin. It would have been cool to see them take on the Scorpions and Helloween, but for the most part I think they covered all the bases here.
If you're new to the band and are looking for a good place to start, Metal is Forever is the way to go, though you'll definitely want to check out New Religion as well. If, like me, you enjoy what Primal Fear has to offer but don't feel compelled to own their whole discography, Metal is Forever is a very worthwhile purchase.
Prime Cuts of Primal Fear December 19, 2007
I don't normally buy best of albums because by the time I get around to it I already have all the songs off the original albums. Without the benefit of having all their albums yet I don't know yet if I would agree the selections of songs on disc 1 are their best songs. It will be a while before I have them all. I'll probably edit this later by then. Anyway, the main reason why I bought this was for the bonus cd of classic metal songs that they covered. Primal Fear does extremely well covering other bands songs and I especially enjoyed their cover of Seek and Destroy by Metallica and Two Minutes to Midnight by Iron Maiden. I would have liked it if they had picked a different song to cover by Judas Priest, only because other bands have covered it before. I was kind of hoping they would have picked a more obscure one. Overall I liked both discs very much. If you like Primal Fear this disc won't dissapoint you.
Primal Fear 101 May 26, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Disc one is a solid comp of Primal Fear tunes & is probably best suited for the newbie. I picked it up for the second disc of covers, all well-done & several of which are not easily found elsewhere. I just wish they could have included "Horrorscope" somewhere on here since that track is somewhat elusive. (I have the eagle-shaped EP, but I'm too scared to put it in any of my CD players!) I also wish they had used more than two songs from "Black Sun" as I think that may be their best release to date. But I can't really complain since I bought this new for under 10 bucks. So if you're just discovering PF or you're a long-time fan who likes the idea of having their various covers together on one CD, I can recommend this if you can find it at a good price.
CD 1 Total Time - 1:16:43
CD 2 Total Time - 41:41
 Extremely disappointing; how NOT to do a greatest hits album November 11, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
In my review of Primal Fear's latest effort Seven Seals, I stated that Primal Fear is one of those bands I may have held a higher regard for if they were one of the first euro-flavored metal bands I had the pleasure of experiencing. Unfortunately, that was never the case with Primal Fear and the band's first four albums, while good in there own right, really didn't bowl me over in anyway. While there are songs on each release that are definitely worth owning, there were simply not enough on any given release in my mind to warrant a purchase until 2005's Seven Seals came along.
Despite being satisfied with what Seven Seals offered I've always wanted to get some older Primal Fear and fatten up that part of my collection, but as usual there was always something else coming out at those times (another band's album, etc) that I just had to have more and would grab my attention and money. However, the day I saw the press release for this compilation on the band's website I must say I was ecstatic - the idea of nabbing some of the band's older tunes on a double disc greatest hits album was a very attractive prospect. Unfortunately, the minute I saw the track listing the air was quickly taken out of my sails.
While the first disc contains actual Primal Fear songs (the selections are pretty hit and miss in my opinion, and some of the tracks I would have liked to see here aren't - if only "Controlled" where there it just *might* be worth it) the second disc is crammed with second-rate cover songs of just about any 80's metal band you can possibly think of. When one boots up a release such as this I think most would expect most of the material to be the band's "original" material, not bogus b-side drivel. Obviously the "Very Best of Primal Fear" part of this compilation's title only applies to the first disc. Sure, this disc may interest those who already have the all the band's albums and wish to obtain these b-sides to finish off their collections, but for the modest fans they are not necessary - or acceptable.
The "other" problem with this compilation is a release such as this really should have seen daylight prior to the release of Seven Seals in 2005. Mixing songs from the first four albums with songs from Seven Seals just doesn't feel right - the band made MAJOR changes in the direction of the music on that album when compared to the first four, which for the most part all sound and feel similar. If this album focused on those four albums all the music would sound completely uniform and feel more unified - no tracks would seem out of place or be the odd man out as some from Seven Seals do here.
If the second disc of this compilation wasn't as botched with so much undesirable material as it is this would be a definite must buy in my eyes, but why should one pay for cover songs when one wants to hear Primal Fear originals. If they put out a single disc edition - scraping the second disc altogether - and lowered the price to a little above the price of a normal release I would probably bite. Unfortunately, as it stands this compilation is simply half full.
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