Primordial - Pilgrimage to the World’s End (LYRIC VIDEO)

Buy here: Video by Costin Chioreanu / “’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...“ - A.A. Nemtheanga