{"title":"Opium Warlords","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"strength-9","title":"Strength!","description":"\u003cp\u003eOpium Warlords' sixth album \"Strength!\" out on Svart Records in September 2024!  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 will be released 13th of September on Svart Records. Album's first outtake, Erotomania, is out right now via digital services worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Svart Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50380128682315,"sku":"2210946","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Green LP","offer_id":50380128911691,"sku":"2210960","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50380129108299,"sku":"2210962","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_b5909375_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726208556"},{"product_id":"droner","title":"Droner","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter three wilderness years with doom gods SPIRITUS MORTIS and LORD VICAR, electronic warriors TAHTIPORTTI, and black metal sorcerers AZRAEL RISING, Sami Albert \"Witchfinder\" Hynninen is back in business with OPIUM WARLORDS.DRONER is the fourth Opium Warlords album, it and brings Hynninen's uncompromising musical vision to its most sparse form.   It is noisy lo-fi riff music consisting only of particles unquestionably necessary; but at the same time with a musical spectrum that is very wide and open. It is experimental and avantgarde, still with roots deep in the very heart of heavy rock music. It is concrete blues, diving to the existence and the smallest molecular spheres of minimal riffs, and what seems to be an endless repetition of them. From these rather skeletal elements it occasionally reaches neo-classical, even medieval spheres and death romantic chambers of apocalyptic folk. Onto all of this, disturbing lyrics are chanted by unnamed, hostile protagonists. The lyrics come entirely from outside, already existing sources: a book written by Finnish culture radical Jouko Turkka, a ritual of Ndembu people, and a letter written by scarlet woman Marjorie Cameron. The purpose here is to create a soundtrack that pictures and reflects the contents of the textual force. The result is primitive and brooding sonic landscapes of war, ritual and death. Gone is soothing warmth of the predeeding album TASTE MY SWORD OF UNDERSTANDING. DRONER is all about nuclear war, and clear post-apocalyptic primitivity of the surviving culture. It is torturing purification through purgatory, to a new world and new form of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Svart Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50477858685259,"sku":"2017640","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_21c68904_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727478501"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/opium-warlords.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}