Although the Creation Matrix is the one single force forged from Primus with the ultimate power to bestow life and destroy Unicron, there have been other Lesser Matrices of Leaderships forged.

Although Primus was never mentioned in the original U. S. Transformers television series, the writers of Beast Wars included Primus to the television mythos with mention of Primus by the Transformers in that series, and the creation of the Covenant of Primus in the series finale.

Although unable to drain Primus's power any further, Cryotek was sustained in the void by the power he had absorbed, and he was ready to carry on the battle until Primus himself — now unshackled thanks to the destruction of the Oracle in the final stages of Optimus Primal's quest — took an active hand, spiriting Sentinel Maximus away to partake in another battle elsewhere in the multiverse.

Although Primus was a regular member of Perrin's team at the end of the 2004 – 05 season and captained the side on occasions during pre-season, he rarely featured until Perrin's sacking in November.

Although they are generally classified as a cappella metal, the band also includes a drummer, and use amplifiers on some songs to distort the voice to sound more like a real guitar.

Although the band has no permanent drummer or bassist, Jeremy Lutito and Gabe Ruschival of Disappointed By Candy fill these roles for live concerts.

Although he was not a drummer, singer-guitarist Skip Spence ( who later founded Moby Grape ) was then invited to replace Peloquin.

Although Plant avoided performing Led Zeppelin songs through much of this period ( he occasionally would improvise his unique Zeppelin screams into his set ), his tours in 1983 ( with drummer Phil Collins ) and 1985 were very successful, often performing to sold-out arena-sized venues.

Although Dodds had several paid teachers during his early years as a drummer, various jazz drummers around New Orleans also influenced him.

Although Patty Schemel is listed as drummer in the liner notes of the record, her drumming does not actually appear on the album, having been replaced by session drummer Deen Castronovo at the suggestion of producer Michael Beinhorn.

Although the 2011 tour never took place, Culture Club did play two live concerts, in Dubai and Sydney, the latter being a New Year's Eve concert, although drummer Jon Moss did not appear due to a back injury.

Although a firmly established rock drummer and praised as " Rock's first superstar drummer ", he prefers being called a jazz drummer.

Although Roswell was originally only a temporary appointment and was not a recognised drummer at the outset, he remained in the band for over a year.

Although Alyrio Lima played percussion on one track, he was replaced during the sessions by Don Alias ( his first appearance with the group since the debut album debacle ) and by Alex Acuña ( a Peruvian drummer and conga player based in Las Vegas who'd played with Elvis Presley and Ike Turner, among others ).

Although Alex is known as a professional drummer, he began his musical aspirations as a guitarist, with his brother Eddie taking up drums.

Although Cantrell wrote almost all of the music for Alice in Chains ( sometimes co-writing along with the bassist and drummer ), and the lyrics, Staley wrote more and more lyrics as time went on, eventually receiving credit for about half the lyrics from their entire catalog prior to the release of Black Gives Way to Blue in 2009.

Although they garnered attention both from noted hard rock acts and pro-censorship movements such as the PMRC, the high-profile death of drummer and lead singer Eldon Hoke (" El Duce ") in 1997 brought them unprecedented attention.

Although top British player Bobby Woodman was the first choice as drummer, during the auditions for a singer, Rod Evans of " The Maze " came in with his own drummer, Ian Paice.

Although Mr. Bungle went through several line up changes early in their career, the longest-serving members were vocalist Mike Patton, guitarist Trey Spruance, bassist Trevor Dunn, saxophonist Clinton " Bär " McKinnon and drummer Danny Heifetz.

Although singers Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy agreed that Coomer was the better drummer, they were intimidated by his six-foot-four stature and long dreadlocks.

Although Mancini developed such a close partnership with Manne that he was using him for practically all his scores and other music at this time, the drummer still found time to perform on movie soundtracks and in TV shows with music by others, including the series Richard Diamond ( music by Pete Rugolo, 1959 – 1960 ), and Checkmate ( music by John Williams, 1959 – 1962 ), and the film version of Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story ( 1961 ).

Although " Heart of Steel " was chosen as a single, Divinyls discontinued with Forsey because according to Amphlett " he was a bit too ' pop ' for us " and remaining tracks were produced by their drummer Drayton.

Although a drummer, King found himself having to learn bass after landing a job at Macari's.

Although the pairing of pop stars Grand Funk and the esoteric Zappa seemed bizarre, Grand Funk drummer Don Brewer said, " His whole viewpoint on what rock and roll is all about is basically the same as ours .... Keep it as simple as possible and really bring the balls out of this thing.

Although originally considered a subspecies of A. ramidus, in 2004 anthropologists Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Gen Suwa, and Tim D. White published an article elevating A. kadabba to species level on the basis of newly-discovered teeth from Ethiopia.

Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.

Although historically the river was not present on several official maps ( for example, according to David Leboff and Tim Demuth's book ; in 1907, 1908, and 1919 ), from 1921 it was absent for several years ( on pocket maps designed by MacDonald Gill ).

Although the album's cover features the original line-up of Kool Keith, Ced Gee, Moe Love and TR Love, TR ( along with Tim Dog ) is notably absent.

Although Unreal is not the first major release with colored lighting ( see Quake II ), it is the first to have a software renderer as feature rich as the hardware renderers of the time, including colored lighting and even a limited form of texture filtering referred to by Tim Sweeney as an ordered " texture coordinate space " dither.

Although the 48K Spectrum's audio hardware was not as capable as chips in other popular 8-bit home computers of the era, computer musicians David Whittaker and Tim Follin produced notable multi-channel music for the machine.

Although the case is usually American fast food chains expanding into Canada, Canadian chains such as Tim Hortons have expanded into 22 states in the United States, but are more prominent in border states such as New York and Michigan.

Although Billy Barton's jockey Tommy Cullinan managed to remount and complete the race, it was Tipperary Tim who came in first at outside odds of 100 / 1.

) Although Robin is best known as Batman's sidekick, the Robins have also been members of the superhero group the Teen Titans-with the original Robin, Dick Grayson, as a founding member and the group's leader and with Tim Drake as the team leader.

Although not instrumental in exposing David Mellor's affair with Antonia de Sancha, Clifford's battle in representing de Sancha against the contrived post-spin story of the " family man Mellor " handled by counter PR Tim Bell ultimately derailed Major's ' Back to Basics ' agenda.

Although Tim thinks he is finished with magic, magic is not finished with him.

Although his name is never said, Chamberlain's actions during the Battle of Gettysburg are popularized in the song Hold at All Costs featured on the CD The Glorious Burden by the band Iced Earth, in which singer Tim Owens takes the role of Chamberlain at the battle on Little Round Top.

Although his father, James, was a shoe salesman who didn't think much of artists, all of the children in the family were creative: Walter was a painter, daughter Jamar entered the commercial art field and Lyman, Chic's older brother, drew the Tim Tyler's Luck comic strip for King Features.

Although original bassist Tim Gaines left the group in 2005 and was replaced by Tracy Ferrie, the band has continued to work together, releasing a new album titled Reborn, produced by Sweet.

Although he doesn't say much, he helps Tim come to grips with going to war.

Producer Tim Minear described Vincent as one of the main reasons of their avoidance of giving the character a ghastly send-off as planned before, “ We ’ ve all grown so fond of the character and the actor that we didn ’ t want do that .” Although fans and critics reception to Kartheiser ’ s portrayal of the disturbed teen was also very positive, the character and his storylines turned out to be controversial.

Although the band line-up has changed numerous times, the current group has remained unchanged since 2001, consisting of Tim Freedman on piano and vocals, Jak Housden on guitar, Warwick Hornby on bass guitar and Terepai Richmond on drums.

Although it is a crossover film, it is primarily a Rugrats movie as the main plot focuses on those characters, and the characters from The Wild Thornberrys are supporting characters, not counting Nigel Thornberry ( voiced by Tim Curry ) who is in fact a main character.

Although audiences declined dramatically, a new generation of DJs, including specialists such as Steve Lamacq ( indie rock ), Tim Westwood ( hip-hop ), Chris Goldfinger ( ragga / dancehall ) and Trevor Nelson ( R & B ), emerged and became highly popular with a younger audience, who were now catered for in a way they had not been previously.

Although mostly a backup to Tim Howard, Rimando played for the United States at the 1999 World Youth Championship in Nigeria.

BREIN president Tim Kuik alleged in a Dutch newspaper that “ Although they are not carrying illegal content on their servers, what FTD does is simply criminal ”.

Although Irvin and Monk are now enshrined as of 2007 and 2008 respectively, Carter has not and the logjam became worse than ever for Reed as he was once again overlooked in 2009, and 2010 saw wide receiver candidates Jerry Rice and Tim Brown both eligible for the first time .< ref name =" Rice, Smith land spots in Hall of Fame ">

" Although the band has been playing together longer, the charm has gone out of their exchanges ," writes music critic Tim Riley.

Although he tends to rely on Bruce for the intellectual details when in the field, Terry has been trained by Bruce as a detective, allowing him to perform such feats as tracking down Shriek or determining a connection between Joker and Tim Drake when Bruce was incapacitated.