Are you mentally prepared for some heavy-ass shit? You better be mentally prepared for some heavy-ass shit if you're going to hit play on this one. The Denver noise-metal power trio Primitive Man will return with their new album Observance on Halloween, and we already posted its first single, the 11-minute odyssey "Social Contract." Now, they've shared an even longer song, a 14-minute murk-wallow called "Natural Law."
"Natural Law" is the song right before "Social Contract" on the Observance tracklist, and it might be even heavier? Much of the track is haunted, ugly doom, but Primitive Man will sometimes speed up into a black metal blur out of nowhere. Diana Lungu directed the song's video, and I have to be honest with you: I didn't watch it. Sorry. My attention span cannot handle a 14-minute noise-metal music video. Every time I clicked over to that tab, though, it was a lady in chainmail walking down a dock, holding a spear. That dock must've been long.
Primitive Man frontman Ethan McCarthy descries "Natural Law" as "one of the more 'trance-like' songs in terms of how it was written. Allow him to continue:
I think leans in on the dark psychedelic vibe we have tried to harness for this. Lyrically, it deals with feelings of isolation, friends or associates turned bitter enemies, and how the option of violence is always there, that it is a personal choice whether or not to succumb to it and the struggle within that framework. It is also somewhat of a call-out to anyone that the lyrics apply to. It also states that there is strength and a spark within hatred that you can either use to progress your life forward or end up dead/in jail.
You should make sure this song isn't about you, then. Check it out below.
Observance is out 10/31 on Relapse.
