Primitive Man announce new album ‘Observance’
PRIMITIVE MAN have announced a brand new album!
The upcoming album, titled Observance, is the fourth full-length from the American extreme metal band and the follow-up to 2023’s collaborative album with FULL OF HELL, Suffocating Hallucination. It is scheduled to be released in October this year, via Relapse Records.
Alongside the album announcement, the band have released a new music video for the track Social Contract. Speaking about the song, vocalist and guitarist Ethan Lee McCarthy says, “Social Contract deals with some of the universal issues that people are collectively facing in terms of the rise of authoritarianism and the erasure of history. It is a backdrop for some of the more personal issues I speak about. The overarching fear, madness, anger and dread to accompany the pain of the rest. The hits at the beginning of the song also suggest a clock ticking as I believe our time with life as we know it, is about to change drastically as things are currently not moving on a path that is sustainable. The video shows examples of these ‘problems’ and insinuates who may be to blame and who may be benefiting from techno feudalism and other ‘world events’.”
Watch the official music video for Social Contract here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
- Seer
- Devotion
- Transactional
- Iron Sights
- Natural Law
- Social Contract
- Water

Observance is set for release on October 31st via Relapse Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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