PRIMITIVE MAN return with their most crushing album to date, Observance. After twelve years at the forefront of underground music, PRIMITIVE MAN takes merciless aim at the plentiful ills that besiege the world around them, and in the process of doing so do not spare themselves from their flagellating tongue-lashings.
With motifs and symbols recurring throughout the lyrics and artwork (also created by McCarthy), and drawing influence from the work of Tongo Eisen-Martin - specifically Blood on the Fog - McCarthy doesn’t offer answers, he only seeks to share his experiences. Personal and professional pitfalls are explored against the backdrop of a broken social contract that is decimating the lives of working class citizens. While party politics dominate the media, a more insidious divide preoccupies McCarthy as he is haunted by techno feudalism and the future of human rights and social unrest.

Formed in 2007, the band recorded their first album in 2009 after a series of gigs, wich they eventually released it in January 2010. The album 1634 was recorded and mixed by JB van der Wal (Dr. Doom, Herder, Aborted), who is also known for his work for Dr. Doom, Greyline, Grinding Halt and Suffering Quota.   1634, released as an conceptalbum, received many great reviews. The CD was packaged in a limited handmade cover. In 2011 they re-released the album on cassette.   Aesthetic Death records re-released 1634 in 2012 as deluxe black on black digipack with uv spot varnish, 8-page booklet and renewed artwork.   The band went back into the studio in 2011, again with JB van der Wal, to record their follow-up EP A Flame Never Rises On Its Own, which was released by Badger Records in 2012.   In 2012 They went to the studios yet again to record The Serpent Stirs; a sonic voyage. A trial of battles with inner demons, which binds us in our mind. Released on vinyl by Narshardaa Records and as a limited cassette by Tartarus Records.   The murky depths of Ortega’s sound drag a darker yet more poignant carcass ashore with Crows, their latest recording. A collision of doom, sludge and noise tells a story of man looking inward and onward.    Crows is a part of their yet unnamed album, to be released later in 2014 by Black Bow Records on vinyl and Tartarus Records on cassette.

Created in 2014, Oldd Wvrms is a band officiating in an occult register insisting on a dark and tormented atmosphere. Blending the heaviness of Doom and Sludge with a Blackened touch.Drawing his inspiration from ancient tales of witchcraft and forgotten rituals.