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Today, Ireland-based pagan metal legends Primordial released their tenth full-length, How It Ends, via Metal Blade Records. The band has also shared a video for the title track, which awaits you in the player below.
Working alongside founding members - bassist Pól MacAmlaigh and guitarist Ciáran MacUilliam - and longtime drummer Simon O'Laoghaire, the band started writing in earnest in the autumn of 2022, having lit a fire under themselves to work hastily and productively. The album was tracked at Hellfire Studios on the outskirts of Dublin, produced by the band and engineered by previous collaborator Chris Fielding.
"How It Ends is a very angry, defiant, visceral, and rebellious album", notes Nemtheanga, "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!"
It only takes one listen for these claims to be proven true, whether it's the surging, gruff, dark "Ploughs To Rust, Swords To Dust", the moody, desperate "Pilgrimage To The World's End", or the sprawling "All Against All", which is drenched in a sinister air and driven by pounding rhythms, wielding a towering climax, How It Ends is a truly thundering offering.
Drawing lyrical influence from modern and historical ideas, Nemtheanga always gives the listener something to think about. The title track continues the themes that have always been a part of Primordial, looking at "the life cycle of people, of nations, of languages, songs, myths and tradition. This song, as much of the album, asks the question, 'do you have the stomach for the fight? The guts to stand against the crowd? To rebel, to dissent, to stand up to authoritarianism?'"
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Yesterday, Primordial kicked off its tour supporting Paradise Lost, together with Omnium Gatherum and Harakiri For The Sky. The band will celebrate the release of How It Ends with a special performance in Dublin at The Academy on 27 April 2024. Also appearing will be Iceland's Misþyrming and Belfast's Darkest Era. Link
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