Portland heavy rockers Tigers On Opium premiere »Paradise Lost« music video; debut album »Psychodrama« out March 1st via Heavy Psych Sounds!
Portland, Oregon based heavy rockers Tigers On Opium premiere a music video for the second single »Paradise Lost« taken from their debut full-length album, »Psychodrama«, set to release on March 1st, 2024 via Heavy Psych Sounds.
Tracklist:
01. Ride Or Die
02. Black Mass
03. Diabolique
04. Retrovertigo
05. Sky Below My Feet
06. Paradise Lost
07. Radioactive
08. Wall Of Silence
09. Separation Of The Mind
10. Ride Or Die (Reprise)
Courtesy of Purple Sage PR:
Portland heavy rockers Tigers On Opium premiere their new »Paradise Lost« video exclusively on Outlaws Of The Sun today. This is the second excerpt of their debut full-length »Psychodrama«, to be issued on March 1st via Heavy Psych Sounds Records.
About »Paradise Lost«, the band says: “Temptation’s a bitch. Everyone struggles with it, whatever your vice is, there’s no escaping this human experience. Sex, drugs, alcohol, money, power, deceit… There are an endless amount of options to feed the hunger of temptation. This song is about an ancient story told by many religions, the fall of man and the birth of original sin.”
Watch new video »Paradise Lost« at this location!
Critics have frequently compared Tigers On Opium to heavy hitters such as Queens Of The Stone Age, Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats, Electric Wizard, Torche, Alice In Chains and Refused – and just like these bands, Tigers shares a hunger for the exploration of new ideas, while simultaneously staying rooted in what makes all this music timeless… THE RIFF! The result is a dark and dirty psychedelic fuzz that leaves the typical genre conventions in an insalubrious haze.
Their debut album »Psychodrama« explores various psychological and social experiences that have shaped our cultural evolution. Occultism, Propaganda, Atomic Warfare, Media Consumption, Religion, Social unrest, Nostalgia, Mental Struggle, Pop Culture, Revolution, and Change – are all themes explored throughout the album. Don’t miss their latest video for »Sky Below My Feet«!
Tigers On Opium »Psychodrama« out March 1st on Heavy Psych Sounds – Preorder: heavypsychsounds.com/shop
»Psychodrama« is Tigers On Opium’s debut full-length: a structured form of therapy in which a person dramatizes a personal problem or conflict, usually in front of a group of other therapy participants. The other participants usually take part in the drama, though each performance focuses on a single person’s concerns. The goal of psychodrama therapy is to work together in a group to achieve a better understanding of past traumas and the influence they can create, the members must feel willing to work together.
Frontman Juan Carlos Caceres says: “When I came across the idea of psychodrama therapy, I started to think about how we have so many joint experiences as a society that currently happen or have happened, and how they shape both our singular and collective consciousness. Music has always been a form of therapy for not just me, but a massive amount of the people in the world. I started to conceptualize this as an idea for the album, thinking that we all have so many connections to major/micro events in time, and generally similar interpretations of them. Like the idea of a psychodrama therapy session, I started to envision how the songs could play out about these different moments… Almost like vignettes or snapshots of life, with the song playing the role of the individual, and the listeners playing the role of the group.”
Tigers On Opium is:
Juan Carlos Caceres – Lead Vocals, Guitars, Synths, Piano
Nate Wright – Drums and Vocals
Charles Hodge – Bass and Vocals
Jeanot Lewis-Rolland – – Guitars and Vocals
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