To give you the offical blurb from the press release about Tria Prima;
The band was created in September 2024 in the city of Zhitomir(Ukraine) by members of various other famous Ukrainian projects(ex-Drudkh, ex-Lucifugum, ex-Blood of Kingu, Lutomysl, Bestial Invasion, Cosmic Jaguar and Violent Omen). The band’s style is characterised as Death Metal with elements of Doom and Dungeon Synth. The main concept and theme of the band is alchemy and its different forms. In a short time the band recorded a 4 song mini album ‘Three Primes of Alchemy’ and shot a music video for the song Solar Sulfur with guest vocalist Anira. The band is currently working on a new full-length album, which they plan to release in the second half of 2025.
I mean, that in itself is impressive because unless you have been living in a cave on Mars, with your fingers in your ears and singing ‘La La La’ at the top of your lungs for the past 11 years then you should be aware that forming any sort of band or doing anything under those circumstances must be hard as fuck.
But what’s even more impressive is the fact that with Three Primes of Alchemy, Tria Prima have delivered a record so kick ass that you won’t be able to sit down for a week.
It’s almost impossible to compare it to anything else because – like so many great releases – it sounds like everything you know and love in music, yet at the same time it sounds like nothing you have ever heard before.
Yes, it’s Death Metal, yes it’s Thrash, yes there are elements of early Sepultura and Slayer – especially South of Heaven which is my favorite Slayer – flying around the place like bodies trapped in a never ending mosh-pit, but when it is all wrapped up with Tria Prima’s own take on a myriad of genres and influences, what you get is something so different and unique that you realise that you might just be listening to one of the breakout bands of 2025.
Three Primes of Alchemy is as dark, twisted, and forboding as the title might suggest. Full of punishing guitar work, blistering solos, a rhythm section that seeks to destroy rather than sit in the background like a good little dog, and vocals that sound as if they have had their chords shredded by a cheese grater, the four songs on offer pack a punch like a prime Muhammad Ali, and will not only beat you black and blue, but take your breath away while they do so.
This is fucking proper.
Head on over to the Tria Prima Bandcamp and check them out.
