Orchestral version PRIMORDIAL 'AS ROME BURNS' set to incredible IRISH landscape footage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- PRIMORDIAL
AS ROME BURNS
originally on 'To the nameless dead'
released by Metal Blade Records
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Orchestral arrangement by Hristo Penev
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Email: chris.penn.music@gmail.com
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Drone footage shot by Fergal Flannery
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I didn't imagine that the orchestra could enrich and amplify this behemoth of a classic, but here we are. Absolutely magnificent rendition!
I wouldn't mind hearing "No Nation on This Earth" and "Where Greater Men Have Fallen" with an orchestral background added in the mix.
HOLY MOTHER FLIPPING SHIRTBALLS!!!!!!!!! As Rome Burns was a superb song, one of the many highlights on "To The Nameless Dead"... this has elevated it to a whole new level! Primordial -the band - have taken the concept of epic, looked at it, decided it just wasn't good enough, thrown it out of the window and decided to show it how it should be done! After listening to this orchestral version my entire body was basically one goosebump, it is sonic perfection! Nemtheanga's vocals sound even more grandiose than before, more passionate (if that were even possible!) Ciáran MacUiliam, Pól MacAmhlaigh, Micheál Ó Floinn and Simon O'Laoghaire's musicianship on the original version is seamless and as powerful as as a herd of stampeding elephants, yet with the addition of the orchestra, the whole song shifts up onto a whole new as yet unexplored realm, giving the listener an almost spiritual experience. The majesty of the song almost feels like a harbinger of Armageddon while at the same time feeling like a warm, safe shelter during a violent north Atlantic storm. I challenge anyone to find another song that redefines EPIC as much as As Rome Burns (Orchestral Version) does!
I've always been amazed at how Primordial has been able to produce some of the most epic music ever with just 5 guys playing their instruments, but this... I am speechless. Absolutely magnificent.
I'd die to see this performed live with an orchestra!
One of the most epic songs ever made.
So my favorite song is BETTER now? I'm here for it.
This is an absolute assault of sound and I love it.
Ireland is a beautiful country, I hope to visit one day. Greetings from Prague, and thanks for the great concert yesterday!
It is magnificent how much the orchestra intensifies the ascension and climax of the song.
Sacred wonder at the combination of image and sound !
Epic.
I always imagined a video to 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘭 being aerial footage over Irish landscape. Starting over the sea, showing only waves, soon transitioning over land and ending with the band on a hill.
Maximum epicness level reached.
I need TABs for this so badly... this band and this song where the reason i started with guitar. I thought "how hard could it be". 2,5 years in - it's hard but rewarding. But i still don't know how to play this song XD
Gorgeous!!
Great orchestration by Penev ! It adds more grandeur to an already epic song and i can easily say that i prefer this version to the original one. Irish beautiful, wild landscape is the perfect fit to the song. Maybe before the transition at around 03.37, a guitar solo would be good, i don't know... This may lead to making an album with the orchestral versions of Primordial songs and doing concerts with a symphony orchestra. This version will surely appeal to a wider audience outside metal community. Especially to classical music lovers. Congragulations Primordial, congragulations Penev ! A great achievement ! Best wishes from Istanbul, Turkey
Dramatic! Epic ! The Song had always Grandeur, but this is pushing all feelings even further. Thank you
Next one ? 😃
wow !!!
Absolutely stunning !
never been a fan of orchestras brought in to revamp metal (e.g. I simply cannot abide Metallica S&M and the like) but this proves me wrong and shows that it can indeed work with massive rewards. Would love to hear the whole TTND album played out like this and also Coffin Ships, just to see if more goosebumps occur than usual.
You should also check out Septicflesh Infernus SInfonica live concert. It's here on TH-cam. Quite good.
This is class!
this is great !!
magnificent ! awesome song
Excellent. Primordial have come a long way from that first demo and album recorded in my bedroom studio in Skerries. Love the choral section.
some of us made it from Skerries to Lusk :)
Love you, Primordial! You are simply the best for me!
Alan, are you going to play at the Plovdiv ancient amphitheater, where Anathema, Opeth, Devin Townsend and so many others have been together with the local philharmonic?
I would be amazing, sounds cool but are we big enough to do that? I'm not sure, certainly not as big as the other bands you have mentioned!
This would be one hell of an amazing concert 🤟
@@hristopenev5615 seeing your name in the clip description I thought you'd be the conductor of the Plovdiv philharmonic orchestra, that's how my question came to be :D
@@sisaktamas Nah :D I'm just a Film/Game composer and a huge admirer of Primordial's work for the last 20 years. Such a concert would be absolutely stunning though!
@@hristopenev5615 I think Primordial would fit there amazingly! first time I heard about the venue and the whole arrangement in Plovdiv was when I saw a clip from Anathema's DVD Universal. Soon after I had the chance to go there and see Devin Townsend, it was the 25 year anniversary of the Ocean Machine album. Later that year I already had tickets for Primordial in Cluj also, and an English guy in Plovdiv told me "ah, Primordial are VERY GOOD live!" :D which was absolutely confirmed at the concert, it was memorable.
Good stuff.
Please do something for "traitors gate".
My favourite line of all time is-
"And shards of military rust!"
Massive goosebumps.
Yeah this line is the best moment in Primordial, or even metal, history.
how about "I want to burn, give me the funeral pyre / long was life, but my life's waking short / the highest of my father's sacraments / to climb towards heaven on a towering flame / and scream out the injustice by which my nation with fiery iron was beset and slaughtered." :)
Primordial have so many great lyrics, it's absolutely insane and delivered so fantastically by Alan.
I set foot on foreign land
Held my brothers and sisters to me
And saw the same questions in them
Yet when I clasped their hands
I felt their blood beneath mine
I had found my answer
My answer
Juste ENORME ! 🖤
Interesting mix of styles, somewhat unexpected to me.
Awesome 🖤🤘
As long as Alan s voice is included is has to be great!!!Primordial is the best!!!
🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Amazing, one of the best songs too.
👊👊
Absolutely stunning! Thank you for posting!
hauntingly atmospheric, sharp as a gladius \m/
I jumped to hit play once I read the video title. This is the exact combination of instrumentation that I have been longing for. Please do more of these and tell me what other artist has combined epic orchestral with metal in this way? The choir just takes it over the top. A post-apocalyptic orchestra of the damned! 10/10
Check out Septicflesh if you haven't already
It's quite a lot of work to make this happen! but who knows, we may attempt some more
@@AlanAverillNemtheanga It sounds like it and it's totally worth the effort. I just haven't heard anything like it.
5:36 where's this location? It's stunning
I visited Ireland two months ago and I already can't wait to get back there.
Would be interesting to hear something of this nature in the next album.. since it's songwriting period now.. just saying ;)
Sing to the slaves!
fucking epic
was the orchestra added or the whole song recorded again with orchestra?
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I remember you saying about a d-beat version of The Burning Season. Any chance you'd out that up?
4:00 I am assuming this is an ancient building... How? seriously how did they put that giant stone piece on top of the other ones. I heard a theory about the ancients knowing some kind of something related to sound that could make things levitate. My own theory is that the atmosphere was a lot thicker back then which allowed them to easily manipulate this crazy amounts of weight, same thing with dinosaurs, the gigantic beast were able to move around and even fly cuz of this, or maybe gravity was weaker back then. Anyways sick music, coupled with the images made some strange feeling be born inside me, it felt like some kind of longing, almost like a dead memory tat i just couldn't quite reach.
They just got the lands 'round to lift it up with leverage, or built a mound of dirt around the pillars, dragged the cap stone on top, then dug the dirt away.
It really shows how fallen we are, how degenerated we've become, that we must invent absurd theories to explain the achievements of greater men.
@@LaughingMan44 Well that's boring. Sound levitation sounds way more metal. Imagine an ancient primordial concert with everyone doing the slam in midair.
@@tzzeek There's nothing boring about our ancestors and their great achievements, but I guess it's not Marvel-movie enough for you
bruh
Take Ireland back.
stunning!