French grunge/doom metal band Fátima premiere first single and title track of their upcoming album »Primal«
Paris, France based grunge/doom metal trio Fátima premiere the first single and title track of their upcoming album »Primal«, scheduled for release on February 3th, 2026 via Black Robes Records.
“Fátima strikes back with their fifth album »Primal«! 8 prehistoric tracks that will transport you straight to the Ice Age!
On the menu: fire dances, mammoth graveyards, and chilled monkey brains!”
The three-piece doom-grunge band Fátima is based in Paris, France.
Max is playing the bass and Ravish Sitar, JC is making the drums bleed in pain, and Antoine is moaning while playing the guitar!
The band’s name alludes to the 1917 Miracle of the Sun, which took place in the (now-holy) city of Fátima in Portugal.
Three young shepherds there claimed to have seen the holy virgin in the sky, giving them insights into the Church’s overall future – some of which were more unsettling than others!
This year marks the band’s tenth anniversary, and their new album, »Primal«, synthesizes all of their past passions while incorporating some fresh flavors!
Fatima has always had a passion for oriental melodies, doom metal, grunge, the Melvins and The Cure, 60’s monster movies, those gross cartoons from the 90’s, dinosaurs, and movie monsters in general.
The Allosaurus of »Fossil« (2022) and the Alien of »Eerie« (2024) marked the beginning of Fatima’s “Trilogy of Monsters,” which ends with a massive, hairy Sasquatch/Kong creature on the cover of »Primal« (2026).
Antoine uses super sculpey clay and Warhammer colors to sculpt and paint each monster by hand. The entire band then takes artistic photos of each creature.
Each monster honors the pioneers of stop-motion monster films, including Ray Harryhausen (The Valley Of Gwangi, Clash Of The Titans), Willis O. Brien (King Kong 1933, The Lost World), and Phil Tippet (Star Wars, Jurassic Park).
This time, Fátima makes a comeback with an eight-track album that features stoner-doom riffs (»Sassquatch, »Chilled Monkey Brains«, »Killer Wart Hogs«, »Mammoth Graveyard«), post-punk bass lines and choruses (»Primal«, »Gazelle Horns«), melvinesque breaks in the middle of most songs, and even a tentative attempt to create a fucked-up, suspicious-looking, doomy pop anthem (»Dog Ham«), which tells the tale of a man who soaked his Pomeranian dog in cyan dye and now wishes for a… »Dog Ham«).
The final song, »Waters Of Babylon«, is a cover/interpretation of an old three-round that was first written by Philip Hayes in 1786. Don Maclean’s album »American Pie« from the 1970s featured and popularized the tune.
The entire album features a “Ice Age” and “Prehistoric” aesthetic and themes, whether in the cover art, song titles, or lyrics, which are half ridiculous, half gloomy, as is customary with the band, but this time more despairing and apocalyptic than ever before.
Produced by Guillaume Doussaud at Swan Sound Studio.
Mastered by Thibault Chaumont at Deviant Lab.
Pre-order »Primal«: fatimadoom.com
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well