Opium Warlords Share Their New Single “Erotomania” – Album Number Six Coming Soon

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Opium Warlords – led by Sami Albert ”Witchfinder” Hynninen (Reverend Bizarre, The Puritan, The Candles Burning Blue) – have announced their sixth album, Strength! It will be released on 2LP/digital/ 2CD, on the 13th of September, via Svart Records. The album’s first single, “Erotomania,” is out now via digital services. Head into the article below to hear it, and find out more.

Stream “Erotomania” here: https://orcd.co/erotomania
Pre-order Strength! here: https://www.svartrecords.com/en/product/opium-warlords-strength/12556

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. 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.

Strength! tracklisting:
I:
01Opium Warlords Away Team
02 Feel The Strength
03 The Essence Of Life
04 Faschionista
05 Men Behind The Sun
06 War Against Suicide
II:
01 The Mad Titan
02 It Never Happened
03 Vox Populi
04 Legionari!
05 Everything Goes
06 WWII
07 Der Heilige Berg
III:
01 The Holy Sweat
02 Parasites
03 The Hashashin
04 Alien Harvest
05 Ancient Wisdom
IV:
01 The Rape Of Europe
02 Amazing Race
03 Erotomania
04 Angels Of Chaos
05 Pain And Love
06 March!

The band:
Sami Hynninen – Vocals, strings
Erkki Virta – Drums
Laura Länsimäki – Organ

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