Knoxville death metal duo Primal Scourge rise from the mire with “Necromantic Plague”, the second single from their apocalyptic debut full-length End of Eden, set for release on November 14 via Iron Fortress Records on digital, CD, and cassette formats.
Primal Scourge’s sound fuses old-school death metal filth with a modern sense of dread and tension. The Tennessee duo crsfting songs that channel the smell of damp crypts and the collapse of civilization itself.
Guitarist and vocalist Austin Asmus describes “Necromantic Plague” as both story and symptom:
“Sewage and filth come to life at the hand of a necromancer, destroying and consuming every living thing in its path. We thought it’d be cool to write about a crazy, demented necromancer turning sewage into living, crawling, disgusting, hungry creatures. The whole album has themes of destruction and dread. Each song is basically about the end of something. ‘Necromantic Plague’ is about the destruction of a town and the people in it, while other songs explore the death of sanity, yourself, and everyone.”
. “I think we were trying to go for a little bit of a chaotic feeling,” Asmus adds, “but still stay in the same room as the other songs.”
That balance between chaos and control defines End of Eden, a record that imagines civilization’s last breath not as tragedy, but as ritual. Across nine tracks, Primal Scourge summon sonic Armageddon, collapsing worlds beneath the weight of their death-doom dirges.
Pre-order End of Eden: Iron Fortress Records
End of Eden arrives November 14 – a vile, suffocating descent into the death of everything.