Photo by Fergal Flannery
Ireland’s pagan metal giants Primordial have revealed their overall tenth full-length offering, How It Ends, is scheduled to arrive on September 29th via Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2018’s Exile Amongst the Ruins is promised to have more of a blend between celtic and black metal while looking down at the end of the world, facing the apocalypse. The group has unveiled a video for the first single and album closer, “Victory Has 1000 Fathers, Defeat Is An Orphan.”
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? 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! It certainly sounds like PRIMORDIAL, there is no doubt about that, we have our own style and this is a new chapter of the same book. If we have done anything new it’s really to work with more conviction than ever, and trust more than ever our instincts. 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.”
Watch the clip below and pre-order the album here:
Track List:
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
To mark the launch of How It Ends, Primordial will join Paradise Lost on the Ultima Ratio Fest European Tour. The lineup includes Omnium Gatherum and Harakiri For The Sky as well.
Tour Dates:
09/28 Karlsruhe, DE @ Substage
09/29 Zurich, CZ @ Komplex
09/30 Memmingen, DE @ Kaminwerk
10/01 Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof
10/02 Nuremberg, DE @ Löwensaal
10/04 Antwerp, BE @ Trix
10/05 Saarbrücken, DE @ Garage
10/06 Prague, CZ @ MeetFactory
10/07 Vienna, AT @ Vienna Metal Meeting
10/08 Budapest, HU @ Barba Negra
10/10 Wroclaw, PL @ A2
10/11 Hanover, DE @ Capitol
10/12 Hamburg, DE @ Kronensaal
10/13 Leipzig, DE @ Hellraiser
10/14 Oberhausen, DE @ Turbinenhalle 2
10/15 Utrecht, NL @ Roanda
