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The origins of Primordial go back to 1987 when a very young Ciaran Macuilliam and Pol MacAmhlaigh got together to learn their instruments and cover some songs from the likes of Slayer, DRI, Dead Kennedys, Suicidal Tendencies, Metallica, etc. in their native Dublin, Ireland. By the end of that year and into 1988 they had been consumed by the early death metal scene and the likes of Death, Sepultura and the more extreme thrash metal scene with Kreator, Celtic Frost and Sodom. So they started to write their own songs together with the band’s old drummer and recorded what is most likely Ireland's first ever death metal demo in 88. The band continued under various different names and then a chance advertisement in Dublin’s one and only metal shop led to A. A. Nemtheanga joining the band in late summer 1991 (they changed the name to Primordial in late 1992). Things now were beginning to get more and more serious as the band tried to write some original songs as well as playing a few show...