Artist: PRIMAL FEAR
Album: NUCLEAR FIRE (CD)

Release date: 2001
Media type: CD

Nuclear Fire is the third album by German heavy metal band Primal Fear. It was released in 2001.

If you’re talking about today’s European top metal acts the discussion is heading straight towards Primal Fear. Former Gamma Ray vocalist Ralf Scheepers and bassist/vocalist Mat Sinner, two of the most respected German metal musicians founded the band in late 1997. They recorded their first Primal Fear songs for the Japan based record company JVC Records, together with drummer Klaus Sperling and guitarist Tom Naumann. They got signed immediately and Germany's best kept secret became soon a target for many of the European record companies. The band finally signed to Nuclear Blast Records in early 1998 for the rest of the world.

The debut album, simply called Primal Fear was released in March 1998 and entered the German album charts straight on position 48, soon followed by similar chart success in Japan. The band recruited guitarist Stefan Leibing to their line up and started touring together with Running Wild and Hammerfall. The second PF album Jaws Of Death entered the German Charts on position 49 in July 1999, followed by their first headlining World Tour. The tour was a huge success incl. countries like Brazil, Japan and of course Europe. A kind of PF hysteria broke free and surprised all metalheads, who couldn't understand, what kind of thunder was raging above them!

Primal Fear released another 3 studio very successful studio albums (“Nuclear Fire”, “Black Sun” and “Seven Seals”) which entered the Top 100 charts in many European countries. After some line-up changes (that brought in Canadian drummer Randy Black) and the release of a “Best of” album aptly entitled “Metal Is Forever”, Primal Fear waved goodbye to Nuclear Blast and signed a new recording contract with Frontiers Records.

TRACKLIST:

Angel in Black (3:58)
Kiss of Death (3:50)
Back from Hell (3:46)
Now or Never (5:33)
Fight the Fire (4:23)
Eye of an Eagle (4:28)
Bleed for Me (5:04)
Nuclear Fire (4:23)
Red Rain (4:51)
Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove (Bonus Track) (5:17)
Fire on the Horizon (3:31)
Living for Metal (3:42)

LINE-UP:

Ralf Scheepers - vocals
Stefan Leibing - guitar
Henny Wolter - guitar
Mat Sinner - bass
Klaus Sperling - drums