| Redemption at the Puritan's Hand | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Primordial |
| Cover: | Redemption at the Puritan's Hand.jpg |
| Released: | April 26, 2011 |
| Recorded: | November–December 2010[1] |
| Studio: | Foel Studio (Llanfair Caereinion, Wales) |
| Genre: | Black metal, Celtic metal, folk metal |
| Length: | 63:56 |
| Label: | Metal Blade |
| Producer: | Chris Fielding |
| Prev Title: | To the Nameless Dead |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | Where Greater Men Have Fallen |
| Next Year: | 2014 |
Redemption at the Puritan's Hand is the seventh studio album by Irish extreme metal band Primordial, recorded at Foel Studio, Wales, with producer Chris Fielding and released on April 26, 2011. The album charted in Finland (#23), Germany (#31), Sweden (#54) and Switzerland (#90).[2]
When asked to describe the album, vocalist A.A. Nemtheanga remarked "this is the 'death' album. Plain and simple."[3] Averill explained that, while Redemption At The Puritan's Hand is not a concept album, "many of the themes deal with mortality [and] how we deal with it. The spiritual structures we place around us to make sense of it. Sex, death, procreation and god. As we get older our relationship to our lives changes, the realization you will not live forever, the grand plan you hoped to uncover never materializes, food for worms and nothing more."
Averill used this theme to mount a critique of religious belief, and particularly the notion of spiritual redemption: