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Opium Warlords shares a music video for the new single »Sarah Was Nineteen Years Old«

Finnish drone/doom metal one-man band Opium Warlords featuring Albert Witchfinder (ex-Reverend Bizarre, ex-Spiritus Mortis) shares a music video for the new single »Sarah Was Nineteen Years Old« taken from the upcoming album, »Nembutal«, set to release on December 4th, 2020 via Svart Records. »Sarah Was Nineteen Years Old« is directed by Virva Kunttu and Sami Hynninen.

Tracklisting:
01. A Heavy Heart
02. Threshold Of Your Womb
03. The Destroyer Of Filth
04. Sarah Was Nineteen Years Old
05. Solar Anus
06. Early In The Morning The Body Of The Girl Was Found
07. Perspiring Princess
08. Xanadu

Composed, arranged and produced by Sami Hynninen.
Co-produced and engineered by Jouni Leppikangas.
Mastered by Joona Lukala.

From Svart Records:

Albert Witchfinder returns to doom-laden heavy metal with the fifth Opium Warlords album »Nembutal«. Whereas the first four Opium Warlords albums were a brute depiction of psychoses, their fifth offering »Nembutal« is a sweaty return to a crystal clear existence after a most severe depression. It is a beautiful, multi-layered journey through a broken mind, inner suffering, and slow recovery; clean like a spring rain or autumn morning. It takes you on a trip that will leave you shaken, but purified.

Sami Albert “Witchfinder” Hynninen (ex-Reverend Bizarre, ex-The Candles Burning Blue, ex-The Puritan, ex-KLV, ex-Spiritus Mortis, Tähtiportti) has in his lifetime, produced hours of devastating, violent, extremely heavy, but at same time strangely serene music. »Nembutal« is easily one of the more pure gemstones, ultimate in several different opposites; beauty, ugliness, heaviness, floating ambience, progressive structures, minimalism, light, darkness, remorse, vengeance. You have to experience it to really understand.

The record is a joyful vision of death and apocalypse. The end of love, the end of pain and the end of mankind.

On its moments »Nembutal« is as Metal as it can get, but most of the time it goes beyond any categorization, even beyond rock music. Still, constantly remaining heavy and striking, like a horse whip in the hand of the iron master.

“This might be the best album I have produced so far… but then again my idea of music is completely screwed up.” says Sami.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well

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