Primordial have premiered a new song titled “Pilgrimage To The World’s End.” This track is from the band’s new album “How It Ends,” which will be released on September 29.
According to A.A. Nemtheanga, the latest single was partially inspired by the stories of poor Irish convicts, sent to the world’s end. This includes figures like Ned Kelly who refused to accept the laws oppressing them and “who then rebelled and came to embody, through myth, resistance.” The vocalist also added:
“‘Pilgrimage To The World’s End’ started out being inspired by the travails of Irish people sent as convicts to Australia, but of course I folded that into a post ‘Coffin Ships’ narrative, poor people boarding boats to try and reach a new world to start over anew, how many went down the boats, endured sickness, death, never reached their destination.
Then I began to really consider the plight of all people within that 19th century period who by famine, war, poverty tried to seek a new life; the oppressed and the downtrodden. So as Primordial always has a historical echo that should resonate with the modern day, we see the same thing, poor people clinging to boats trying to seek a new life, always at the behest of a small economic elite who profit from their ruin. This is the song of the war and famine torn refugee from all countries and nations…“
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