Interviews About Albums: ABYSMAL RITES - Restoring The Primordial Order (2025)

In this new interview, we sat down with the Finnish Sludge Metal band ABYSMAL RITES to ask questions about their album, "Restoring The Primordial Order".

1. What can you say about this new EP/CD?

The new album is a more complete whole than the debut album "Nihilism Is Realism", which was still searching for the right expression. On this album, the style has been more strongly shaped, and the sound side has also been made to rumble more dirty. The new album is a heavy dive into the brutality of humanity and the consequences that lead to its extinction. And the consequent rise of a new ancient race. 

2. What is the meaning of the EP/CD name?

In its simplicity, it reflects a utopian return to a time when man does not imagine himself to be a god, or anything more than he is. In other words, a return to the primordial.

3. Which one is the composer of the CD/EP?

Basically, M has come up with the outlines of the songs, and then they are worked out between the band to their final form. Abysmal Rites is very much the sum of its parts, and that's why the compositions are also the sum of their parts. 

4. If you had to pick one song, which one would you pick?

In my case, the choice would probably go in the direction of The Zone. It's probably the most enjoyable to play live, and the oppressive atmosphere that erupts in the chorus is very much to my liking. 

5. Is there a special message in this EP/CD? If there is what it is?

Well, not so much a clear message, but yes, by studying the lyrics, you can certainly find the core ideas and then decide for yourself how you want to interpret them. But quite directly, things are said as they are meant to be said. 

6. Are there some lyrics that you'd love to share?

Not so much individual ones, and anyway, they are meant to be served with a soundscape. But if you want some lyrics to be mentioned here, in that case it could be: "The seed of destruction is sown at birth, evolution cleanses and renews the earth". 

7. Which inspirations have been important for this album? Like musically or friends, family, someone you'd love to thank especially?

The album has been strongly inspired by certain films and their strong atmosphere that are different from the mainstream, as well as by several different bands. Perhaps no particular genre or style has directly been the boundaries within which we have wanted to make music, but the right form has come naturally. In composition, visuality, and the images that arise from it, are strongly present in the creation of something new. 

8. Something to add?

The metal music scene is in need of a new angle and sound, which ABYSMAL RITES is trying to provide. We are now living in the age of artificial intelligence, where the first thing to do is to replace the soullessness and overproduced soundscape. Personality and humanity, on the other hand, are harder to imitate, and this kind of music will rise its the head in the future.