Primal Fear was founded in October 1997 by singer Ralf Scheepers and Mat Sinner.

Shortly after its release guitarist Tom Naumann left the band due to health problems.

At the following world tour the band played in the US for the first time and were guests at the Metal Meltdown Festival and the Milwaukee Metalfest.

[1] Halford-Guitarist Mike Chlasciak contributed the guitar solos for the songs "Fear" and "Armageddon".

The same year Henny Wolter left the band and was replaced by the returning Tom Naumann.

In February 2004, the 5th album Devil's Ground was released and entered the German LP charts at place 67.

The album was finished under the direction of producer Mat Sinner and engineer and co-producer Charlie Bauerfeind and was mixed by Roland Prent in the Galaxy Studios in Belgium.

They started their New Religion tour as co-headliner of the sold out ProgPower USA (PPUSA) VIII festival in Atlanta, US.

On future releases and tours he would be replaced by Swedish guitarist Magnus Karlsson, who already contributed 2 guitar solos for the New Religion album.

The Video for the song Six Time Dead (16.6) has premiered on 8 May on the band's official MySpace channel.

On 11 August 2014, drummer Randy Black parted ways with the band due to "irreconcilable differences" between him and Ralf Scheepers.

[5] In November 2017, Primal Fear entered the studio to begin work on their twelfth album Apocalypse, which was released 10 August 2018.

[6] On 3 April 2020, Primal Fear announced the title of their thirteenth studio album Metal Commando, along with a release date of 17 July 2020.

[8] On 9 April 2021, Primal Fear released an EP titled I Will Be Gone, featuring Tarja Turunen.

51) and the Netherlands (Top 200), and for the first time in the band's history, they showed up on the US Billboard Heatseekers chart, landing at No.