How It Ends

PRIMORDIAL / / CD (Japanese edition) / Ward Records

Japanese edition:

How It Ends is the tenth Primordial album and their first in five years.

PRIMORDIAL - How It Ends album cover

CD Details

ArtistPRIMORDIAL
TitleHow It Ends
Release date
Japanese edition
LabelWard Records
FormatCD (Japanese edition)
Catalog No.GQCS-91375
Tracks10

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Track List

  1. How It Ends
  2. Ploughs to Rust, Swords to Dust
  3. We Shall Not Serve
  4. Traidisiunta
  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

Music Video

How It Ends · Official Video

Nothing New Under the Sun · Official Video

Death Holy Death · Official Video

Victory Has 1000 Fathers, Defeat Is an Orphan · Official Video

LINER NOTES
How It Ends is the tenth Primordial album and their first in five years. The Irish band have been working under that name since about 1992; they began close to the Norwegian black metal of the day, signed to Cacophonous Records and debuted with Imrama in 1995, and leaned further into folk metal with each record after it. The style they arrived at — black metal fused with Celtic music — reached one of its peaks on To the Nameless Dead in 2007, their first for Metal Blade. Nothing here is smaller in scope: there is a grandeur that recalls Bathory's Viking-era records, and Celtic melody carrying a great deal of sorrow. The line-up is A.A. Nemtheanga on vocals, Ciáran MacUiliam on guitar, Pól MacAmlaigh on bass and Simon O'Laoghaire on drums. Metal Blade released it on 29 September 2023, Ward Records' Japanese edition on 13 October as GQCS-91375. Ten tracks.