[News] Opium Warlords published the official video for the second single “Feel The Strength” taken from new album

Finnish Experimental/Drone/Doom project Opium Warlords published the official video for the second single “Feel The Strength” taken from new album “Strenght!” due out on September 13, 2024 via Svart Records.

It is the heat and sweaty pulse of hydraulic machines, fire and sparks, muscles and hatred in factories, the merciless and endless wave of bullets and shrapnels on the fields of war. It is celebration of man’s ultimate will to live, the force that keeps life going on and inspires individual to reach for higher magnitudes. It is as much at home on the dance floor as on the battle rings. It is fury, vitality, joy, absolute power; LIFE!

Watch the video for “Feel The Strength” directed by Sami Albert ”Witchfinder” Hynninen on Svart’s YouTube channel here:

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!” 2xLP/2CD/digital will be released September 13, 2024on Svart Records. Album’s second outtake, “Feel The Strength,” is out right now on digital services worldwide HERE

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Author: Jacopo Vigezzi

2 thoughts on “[News] Opium Warlords published the official video for the second single “Feel The Strength” taken from new album

  1. Very happy to appear here! Even though “progressive rock” might bring to mind something very different than Opium Warlords, and people might be disappointed when brought to our music via that term I have myself always myself thought that we are progressive, and of course I have been a huge fan of classic progressive rock since the teen years.

    1. Progressive Rock Journal is the name of my webzine, but I publish articles also from different genres. In fact the article begins: Finnish Experimental/Drone/Doom project Opium Warlords…
      I love Progressive Rock music but I alsolike other genres that I work with on my webzine. All the best, Jacopo

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