Primordial Black have shared the official artwork for Heterotopia, the band’s upcoming album set for release on 15 May via Darkside Records.
In a short statement posted with the reveal, the band described the record as “deeply personal” and said it was shaped by “obsession, tension, and transformation”. The artwork was created by the band’s vocalist and guitarist, Yasser Mahammedi Bouzina.
The announcement follows the recent release of the video for “Ruines Suspendues”, taken from Heterotopia. Directed, shot and edited by Mahammedi Bouzina, the clip arrived as the first closer look at the album and its visual world ahead of the full release.
Speaking to AFRICA.ROCKS about that track, Mahammedi Bouzina said: “For Primordial Black, ‘Ruines Suspendues’ is tied to the band’s core identity. It evokes a world in fracture that refuses resolution. Not clean endings, not rebirth, but tension, suspension, and persistence within collapse. That runs through our sonic and thematic direction too: dissonant, oppressive, but still conscious and deliberate.”
He also explained the source image behind the song in direct terms: “The inspiration was the image of a Palestinian girl’s corpse hanging from the ruins of her home.”
Heterotopia will be Primordial Black’s second full-length, following 2025’s Dark Matter Manifesto.
