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Long-running, Dublin, Ireland-based pagan metallers Primordial will release their tenth full-length, How It Ends, on 29 September via Metal Blade Records.
Primordial has nothing to prove. Having lasted thirty-two years is now returning with its devastating new studio offering. The Irish band has made it clear it is a primal force which consistently lays it all on the line. The follow-up to the critically lauded Exile Amongst The Ruins (2018), How It Ends sees it delivering more of its seminal blend of Celtic and black metal, with an extra added urgency, and staring down the apocalypse.
Primordial's vocalist A. A. Nemtheanga comments: "The title is a question - is this how it ends? How it all goes down: culture, language, history, society - humanity - who knows? Regardless of who you are or were, you get one chance at all of this, and it's asking is this the end of your town, state, nation? Myths, traditions, relationships, and I suppose it asks the question, who reacts, who rebels - how does it end now for them?"
Working alongside founding members Pól MacAmlaigh (bass) and Ciáran MacUilliam (guitar) and longtime drummer Simon O’Laoghaire, the band started writing in earnest in the autumn of 2022, having lit a fire under itself to work hastily and productively. Primordial never plans out a record beforehand, letting it come together naturally - though Nemtheanga knew he wanted something with a bigger, more open sound and something more aggressive, which is what the upcoming album brings.
"How It Ends is a very angry, defiant, visceral, and rebellious album, and as we worked it all began to take more shape and form itself. It may be the note we go out on but it will be a note of resistance, in musical terms. I think it's also more metal! And more epic!"
Drawing lyrical influence from modern and historical ideas, Nemtheanga always gives the listener something to think about. How It Ends is no exception.
"If, for example, To The Nameless Dead (2007) was about the movement of borders, building of nations and those sent to war who gave their lives forming them, then this is the album more about resisting those empires, the freedom fighters, the outlaws, the people who made suicidal stands for freedom of speech, or independence - or for the most important word in the English language: liberty. It's not hard to see why the album is inspired by this considering where we are right now in the world."
Primordial has just unleashed the first single and album closer, "Victory Has 1000 Fathers, Defeat Is An Orphan", and its accompanying video. Check it out in the player below.
Coinciding with the release of How It Ends, Primordial will support Paradise Lost on the Ultima Ratio Fest European Tour; additional support will provide Omnium Gatherum and Harakiri For The Sky. Link
How It Ends tracklist:
01. How It Ends
02. Ploughs To Rust, Swords To Dust
03. We Shall Not Serve
04. Traidisiúnta
05. Pilgrimage To The World's End
06. Nothing New Under The Sun
07. Call To Cernunnos
08. All Against All
09. Death Holy Death
10. Victory Has 1000 Fathers, Defeat Is An Orphan
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