– July 16th, 2024 –
European Festival Run To Commence This Week
Photo by Fergal Flannery
Dublin, Ireland-based Pagan metal legends PRIMORDIAL today unveil their video for “Nothing New Under The Sun.” The track comes by way of the band’s acclaimed How It Ends full-length, released last Fall via Metal Blade Records.
Comments vocalist A. A. Nemtheanga, “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, The Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”
Watch PRIMORDIAL‘s “Nothing New Under The Sun” video, by Killian Monson, at THIS LOCATION.
The “Nothing New Under The Sun” video comes in advance of PRIMORDIAL‘s upcoming European festival run. The journey begins Friday, July 19th, at Rock Unter Eichen and includes stops at some of Europe’s most prestigious festivals including Wacken Open Air, Brutal Assault, and many more. See all confirmed dates below.
PRIMORDIAL Live:
7/19/2024 Rock Unter Eichen – Bertingen, DE
7/20/2024 Nachtleben – Frankfurt, DE
7/21/2024 Luppolo In Rock – Cremona, IT
7/26/2024 Tolminator – Tolmin, SL
7/27/2024 Kanekas Metal Fest – Cangas Do Morrazo, ES
8/03/2024 Wacken Open Air – Wacken, DE
8/04/2024 Vargos Metal Fest – Vagos, PL
8/10/2024 Brutal Assault – Jaromer, CZ
8/23/2024 Neuborn Open Air – Worstadt, DE
8/24/2024 Manegram Open Air – Norrtalje, SE
9/07/2024 Summer Dying Loud – Lodzki, PL
9/13/2024 Willemeen – Arnhem, NL
9/14/2024 Baroeg Open Air – Rotterdam, NL
9/20/2024 Radio Lublin – Lublin, PL
9/21/2024 Metal Im Woid – Schrobenhausen, DE
10/05/2024 Metal Storm Over Luzern – Luzern, CH
11/07/2024 Kulturpalast – Herford, DE
11/08/2024 Factory – Magdeburg, DE
11/09/2024 Hell’s Balls Belgium – Kortrijk, BE
How It Ends serves as the follow-up to 2018′s Exile Amongst The Ruins and finds PRIMORDIAL delivering more of their seminal blend of Celtic and black metal, with added urgency staring down the apocalypse. “The title is a question – ‘is this how it ends? How it all goes down: culture, language, history, society, humanity…’ – who knows?,” considers 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?‘”
Watch the band’s previously released video for “Victory Has 1000 Fathers, Defeat Is An Orphan” HERE, “Pilgrimage To The World’s End” HERE, “How It Ends” HERE, and “Death Holy Death” HERE.
Preview and purchase How It Ends at: metalblade.com/primordial
“As epic as they’ve ever been.” – Metal Injection
“Epic songwriting, cultural aural tapestry, lyrical content surrounding history, heritage, and the struggles of the common man – it doesn’t get more emotional than this.” – Dead Rhetoric
“This is an album that not only celebrates PRIMORDIAL as a band from start to finish, as well as their history and their legacy, but it also salutes everything that they stand for, and the fact that they are still here doing this after all these years must be appreciated and applauded in equal measure.” — Distorted Sound
“How It Ends exemplifies exactly what makes PRIMORDIAL so revered. It makes the unlikely combination of black metal and Irish folk not only work, but seem like an extremely natural combination. PRIMORDIAL was the first band to reach that conclusion, as they have demonstrated over nine albums. Here, their rebellious attitude truly shines.” — New Noise Magazine
“PRIMORDIAL’s music is painfully emotive. Musically, vocally, and thematically, they span nihilism, grief, anger, acceptance, regret, and more from song to downcast song… their music has a genuine spirit directly tied to Eire’s proud, tumultuous, bloody history.” – PopMatters
PRIMORDIAL:
A.A. Nemtheanga – vocals
Ciarán MacUilliam – guitar
Pól MacAmlaigh – bass
Simon O’Laoghaire – drums
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