Redemption at the Puritan's Hand

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Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 26, 2011
RecordedNovember - December 2010 [1]
StudioFoel Studio (Llanfair Caereinion, Wales)
Genre Black metal, Celtic metal, folk metal
Length63:56
Label Metal Blade
Producer Chris Fielding
Primordial chronology
To the Nameless Dead
(2007)
Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
(2011)
Where Greater Men Have Fallen
(2014)
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Redemption at the Puritan's Hand is the seventh studio album by the Irish pagan metal band Primordial, recorded at Foel Studio, Wales, with producer Chris Fielding and released on April 26, 2011. The album charted in Finland (#23), Germany (#31), Sweden (#54) and Switzerland (#90). [8]

Contents

Theme

When asked to describe the album, vocalist A.A. Nemtheanga remarked "this is the 'death' album. Plain and simple." [9] Averill explained that, while Redemption At The Puritan's Hand is not a concept album, "many of the themes deal with mortality [and] how we deal with it. The spiritual structures we place around us to make sense of it. Sex, death, procreation and god. As we get older our relationship to our lives changes, the realization you will not live forever, the grand plan you hoped to uncover never materializes, food for worms and nothing more." [9]

Averill used this theme to mount a critique of religious belief, and particularly the notion of spiritual redemption:

We all seek redemption in one way or another, from lies or from truth. Those of us who are godless or faithless often envy the man of faith for his life seems to have an extra purpose, despite the fact that logic, pragmatism, science and realism should crush any sign of faith, we still persist in lying to ourselves. Perhaps the alternative is too much to bear. So the themes of religion, mortality and death occur over and over again, along with continuing themes of alienation, martyrdom, sacrifice, violence and retribution. [9]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by A.A. Nemtheanga.

No.TitleMusicLength
1."No Grave Deep Enough"Ciáran MacUiliam7:10
2."Lain with the Wolf"MacUiliam8:25
3."Bloodied Yet Unbowed"Micheál O'Floinn8:47
4."God's Old Snake"MacUiliam6:25
5."The Mouth of Judas"MacUiliam8:53
6."The Black Hundred"MacUiliam6:19
7."The Puritan's Hand"Pól MacAmlaigh8:36
8."Death of the Gods"O'Floinn, MacUiliam9:21
Total length:63:56

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