Primordial announce new album ‘How It Ends’

August 17, 2023 James Weaver

PRIMORDIAL have announced a new album!

Titled How It Ends, the upcoming album from the Irish black metal band is the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Exile Amongst The Ruins, and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Metal Blade Records.

“The title is a question – is this how it ends? How it all goes down: culture, language, history, society – humanity – who knows?,” says vocalist A. A. Nemtheanga. “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 [guitars] and longtime drummer Simon O’Laoghaire, the band started writing in earnest in the Fall of last year. PRIMORDIAL never plans out a record beforehand, letting them come together naturally, though Nemtheanga knew he wanted something with a bigger, more open sound, and something more aggressive. “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!”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, PRIMORDIAL have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Victory Has 1000 Feathers, Defeat Is An Orphan.

Watch the official music video for Victory Has 1000 Fathers, Defeat Is An Orphan here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List:

1. How It Ends
2. Ploughs To Rust, Swords To Dust
3. We Shall Not Serve
4. Traidisiúnta
5. Pilgrimage To The World’s End
6. Nothing New Under The Sun
7. Call To Cernunnos
8. All Against All
9. Death Holy Death
10. Victory Has 1000 Fathers, Defeat Is An Orphan