Concurrently with the moral decay of the ever-growing alien world concept of their upcoming album, Primeval: Obsession // Detachment (out September 5 via Earache Records), Tallah have carved out space for some pure, unapologetic fun with the music video for their new single, “as fate undoes“. The new clip from the Pennsylvania nu-core unit sees them channeling classic monster movies and 1970s television into their most deliberately playful visual treatment yet. Complete with custom puppets and epic monster battles, the new video exhibits the kind of B-movie charm that would make Vincent Price proud.
Drawing inspiration from classic creature features and 1970s television shows, the new video transforms Tallah’s alien world concept into something part horror homage, part Saturday morning fever dream. While the band’s previous videos captured their feral live energy and conceptual darkness, “as fate undoes” reveals a different, cosmic horror side of their creative DNA.
Bassist Max Portnoy, who directed the video, shares:
“As fate undoes is heavily inspired by old monster movies and 1970s TV shows like Land Of The Lost. We haven’t done a tongue in cheek, humorous video before, but always joked about it, and decided to send it for this single, since it felt right for this song. After making the video, it was probably the most fun we’ve had at a video shoot. And now we have puppets of ourselves, so that’s cool.”
Speaking about the track itself, Max continues:
“The live strings we recorded for this record are on display prominently with this track. The song was mainly written around this violin melody I wrote one night. Once that idea was cemented, it turned into what I feel is a hit song. It’s got one of the most replayable choruses that makes you want to bounce. It’s fun. It’s dark. It’s very much ‘Tallah’ at our core, all wrapped into 3 minutes.”
The track itself maintains the raw, unedited approach that defines Primeval: Obsession // Detachment. The album was recorded live in Michigan with producer Josh Schroeder using no clicks, no edits, and no safety nets. Like its three predecessors “What we know”, “A primeval detachment” and “augmented,” “as fate undoes” also ties directly into the album’s layered sci-fi narrative. The concept follows two characters, Ana and Sheelah, on a morally destructive journey across an alien world. Fans can dive deeper into the lore through The Primeval Game, a playable story-world that’s updated monthly with new clues, song teasers, and narrative expansions. Explore the game, built in collaboration with Enzo Interactive at primevalgame.com
Primeval: Obsession // Detachment arrives September 5 via Earache Records. The album stands as Tallah‘s most ambitious and uncompromising work to date. Weaving sci-fi storytelling together with deliberately imperfect performances, Tallah prove that human instinct still has power in an increasingly artificial landscape.
ABOUT TALLAH
Emerging from Pennsylvania in 2018, Tallah fuse the percussive force of second-generation drummer-turned-bassist Max Portnoy with the unpredictable dexterity of vocalist and viral phenom Justin Bonitz and the phenomenal guitarist duo of Derrick Schneider and Alex Snowden to form a sound that’s part brutalist nu-metal, part theatrical meltdown, and entirely their own. What began as a raw homage to the early-2000s metal they were raised on—Slipknot, Korn, Linkin Park—has since evolved into something far stranger and far more singular.
After making waves with their 2020 debut ‘Matriphagy’, a twisted concept album soaked in trauma and noise, the band were hailed by Knotfest as delivering “one of the best metal releases of the year” and by Metal Hammer as “leading the charge on the new wave of nu-metal.” The follow-up, ‘The Generation Of Danger’ (2022), saw them push their hybrid sound further into chaos—earning millions of streams, high-profile festival slots, and nominations at both the Heavy Music Awards and AIM Independent Music Awards.
But it’s on album three, ‘Primeval: Obsession // Detachment’ (out September 5, 2025 via Earache Records), that Tallah truly shatter what’s left of the mould. Decamping to Michigan to record the entire project live with longtime producer Josh Schroeder, the band abandoned edits, clicks, backing tracks, and rules. What remains is pure instinct—feral, volatile, and unrelentingly human.
Conceptually, the record unfolds across a sci-fi narrative that follows Ana, a nurse, and Sheelah, an assassin—two strangers manipulated by a shadowy force and driven to the edges of their morality. The mirrored structure, warped sonic callbacks, easter eggs and ambiguous lyrical layering reflect a story full of tests, dualities, and spiraling identity shifts.
To date, Tallah have clocked up 29.7 million Spotify streams and 6 million YouTube views.
Tallah
Primeval: Obsession // Detachment
TrackListing
- 05:01
- What we know
- augmented
- as fate undoes
- my primeval obsession
- la|cuna
- A primeval detachment
- undone by fate
- depleted
- what we want
- 07:09
TALLAH are:
Vocals: Justin Bonitz
Guitar: Alex Snowden
Guitar: Derrick Schneider
Bass: Max Portnoy
Drums: Joel McDonald
DJ: DJ Navi
