Opium Warlords released sixth studio album »Strength!« on Svart Records; watch music video for latest single »It Never Happened«!
Finnish experimental project Opium Warlords (with Reverend Bizarre’s Sami Albert “Witchfinder” Hynninen) is back with sixth studio album, »Strength!«, which was just released on September 13th, 2024 via Svart Records.
Watch a music video for the latest single »It Never Happened« below!
Tracklist:
01. Opium Warlords Away Team
02. Feel The Strength
03. The Essence Of Life
04. Faschionista
05. Men Behind The Sun
06. War Against Suicide
07. The Mad Titan
08. It Never Happened
09. Vox Populi
10. Legionari
11. Everything Goes
12. WWII
13. Der Heilige Berg
14. The Holy Sweat
15. Parasites
16. The Hashashin
17. Alien Harvest
18. Ancient Wisdom
19. The Rape Of Europe
20. Amazing Race
21. Erotomania
22. Angels Of Chaos
23. Pain And Love
24. March!
Courtesy of Svart Records:
Friday the 13th, September 2024; Opium Warlords’ sixth album »Strength!« is out now on Svart Records!
Opium Warlords, led by Sami Albert “Witchfinder” Hynninen (Reverend Bizarre, The Puritan, The Candles Burning Blue), return with their sixth album »Strength!« It is a versatile but tight combination of pussy techno, sludge, industrial pop, hardcore punk, drone, shamanistic pulse, noise, heavy metal, old school gothic rock and march music. It is a take on European rhythmic patterns: stagnant factory beat – no groove, no swing, just a rhythm of industrialism that pierces through different genres and styles.
Comparing to the dark and oppressive »Nembutal« (2020), »Strength!« is significantly more light-hearted, with its postmodern lyrics emitting from sources such as shampoo bottles and television UFO series to the Pan-Europa myth or morbid lore of death-hungry Transylvanian Iron Guard. However, the sting of irony and sarcasm is balanced with more serious subjects: »Strength!« is a hate/love letter to Europe and a self-reflection on Machiavellian and Nietzschean philosophies of strength and elitism. True to the band’s soul everything is covered with pure toxic misanthropy.
»Strength!« 2LP/digital/2CD out on Svart Records. Order here: 2LP/2CD | digital
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well