Primitive Graven Image is a black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band from England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, who have recently released their second album "Celebrating Impending Chaos" through Envenomation Records.

The Beginnings (2006)

The band's two core members Dokkalfur and Ljosalfur aka Rob Lehane and Luke Lehane concepted the band, releasing the track "None Shall Stand" on their web page on myspace.com in early 2006. This attracted the attention of Pennsylvania based Open Grave Records who offered the band a deal on the strength of the material on the page. Peculiarly, the band's original demo "Hellish Figurines" was actually put together after they had been signed, and the demo was released to the press for review by the label in June 2006, rather than being used to scout label interest as is the norm.

Traversing The Awesome Night (2007)

The band's debut album "Traversing The Awesome Night" was released worldwide through Open Grave Records in May 2007. It was self recorded by the band as a two piece on home computers and used a drum machine. The lyrics dealt largely with the subject of dark versus light and good versus evil, and traditional black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 imagery. Although criticised for lack of originality on occasion, it received good press coverage and it became the labels best selling release, however did not shift enough copies to keep the label afloat, and the band were freed from their contract in 2009 when label closed down.

Live Line Up (2007)

The band's live line up was put together around April 2007. Matt Platts, previously of industrial metallers Interlock took up the position of drummer and Josh Coxon became the bassist. Both lived in the band's home town of Chesham

Chesham

Chesham is a market town in the Chiltern Hills, Buckinghamshire, England. It is located 11 miles south-east of the county town of Aylesbury. Chesham is also a civil parish designated a town council within Chiltern district. It is situated in the Chess Valley and surrounded by farmland, as well as...

, England

England

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Second Album - Celebrating Impending Chaos (2010)

The band's second album was released through Envenomation Records worldwide on 5 April 2010 except in the USA and Canada where it is released on 4 May 2010. It is the bands first album recorded with a full line up. The album was self recorded at the band's own Metal Farm studio in Gerrards Cross

Gerrards Cross

Gerrards Cross is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the south of the county, near the border with Greater London, south of Chalfont St Peter. Gerrards Cross is also a civil parish within South Bucks district, which was known as the Beaconsfield district from 1974 to 1980...

, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

, before being mixed and mastered at Parlour Sound Studio by Russ Russell

Russ Russell

Russ Russell is a British record producer, sound engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, musician and writer. He has worked all over the world and now is mostly based at Parlour Studios in the UK...

. It is more experimental than the band's debut, and demonstrates some of the band's progressive influences using instruments not commonly found in the black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 genre, including Moog synthesizer.

Discography

Hellish Figurines (Demo) - 2006

Traversing The Awesome Night (Full Album) - 2007

Hellish Figurines (Demo, Repackaged) - 2008

Demonstrating Impending Chaos (LTD Edition album preview given away free at Bloodstock 2009 only) - 2009

Celebrating Impending Chaos (Fulll Album) - 2010

Live Appearances

The band rarely play live, but have made a few festival appearances in the UK and Ireland, notably at Bloodstock Open Air

Bloodstock Open Air

Bloodstock Open Air is a heavy metal festival held annually at Catton Hall in Walton-upon-Trent, England, since 2005. Previous line-ups have included bands such as Opeth , Children of Bodom , Nightwish , Cradle of Filth , Testament , Arch Enemy , Europe and Twisted Sister .Originally on one stage...

 in 2009, and at Cork Winterfest in 2008 supporting Amon Amarth

Amon Amarth

Amon Amarth is a Swedish viking metal band from Tumba, Sweden founded in 1992, and takes its name from the Sindarin translation of Mount Doom, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. The band comprises vocalist Johan Hegg, guitarists Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Söderberg, bassist Ted Lundström...

 and Skyclad

Skyclad (band)

Skyclad are a British heavy metal band with heavy folk influences in their music. They are considered one of the pioneers of folk metal. The etymology behind the term "skyclad" comes from a pagan/wiccan term for ritual nudity, in which rituals are performed with the participants metaphorically clad...

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Current members

Rob "Dokkalfur" Lehane - Vocals, Guitars

Luke "Ljosalfur" Lehane - Guitars, Vocals, Synths

Matt "Vordhr" Platts (aka Lord Blast) - Drums and Cymbals

Psi - Bass

Previous and Stand-in Members

Josh "Mjolnir" Coxon - bass guitar (2007–2009)

Drew "Drewcifer" Newman - live guitar (Bloodstock Open Air 2009)

Agamoth (from UK black metal band Abgott) - guest bass player for UK dates in 2010.

External links

• http://www.pgimetal.com
• http://www.myspace.com/primitivegravenimage
• http://www.envenomationrecords.com