Primal Fear

Have you ever tried ringing a phone number over a 100 times in an hour? If so, then you’ll probably understand that it gets a bit annoying after a while.

Of course, if we’re in the market for sweeping generalizations, you know exactly what you’re going to get the moment you break open the seal on a new PF album – Painkiller

“Showdown!” Barks throatmeister supreme Jorn Lande at the start of this, the third collaboration between two of modern metal’s finest vocalists.

When a band releases a live album, it can normally be one of two things - a raw, in-your-face & accurate representation of their live shows or it can be an uber-polished, over-dub-laden effort.

Primal Fear, Ninth Circle and Scarred will be hitting the Key Club in LA on 8 September - and you could be in with a chance to win one of five double-passes to see these guys play.

Who: Primal Fear, Ninth Circle, Scarred

With a long history and many albums behind them, Germany's Primal Fear have been consistently putting out solid effort after solid effort, their newest release 16.6 (Before The