Primordial Black are set to return on May 15 with Heterotopia, their second full-length and the follow-up to 2025’s Dark Matter Manifesto. Ahead of the album’s release via Darkside Records, the Tunisian band have shared the official video for “Ruines Suspendues”.
The video was directed, shot and edited by Yasser Mahammedi Bouzina, who also produced the track. Vocals were engineered by Fourat Nefatti and Sabri Omrani at Wild Tunes Studio, while Nikola Dušmanić handled mixing and mastering at Ezoterik Studio.
“The inspiration was the image of a Palestinian girl’s corpse hanging from the ruins of her home.”
Speaking to AFRICA.ROCKS, 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. As a band, it means rejecting closure. We are not interested in neat narratives or catharsis. We want to hold the listener in that in-between space, between beauty and horror, structure and chaos. It also comes from something very real. The inspiration was the image of a Palestinian girl’s corpse hanging from the ruins of her home. We wanted to transform that trauma into metaphysical language without diluting it, and instead amplify what was already there.”
Watch the video below:
