Album of the day: Opium Warlords – Live at Colonia Dignidad

Lovingly pinched from Aversionline.com: Live at Colonia Dignidad is the monstrous 77-minute debut album from the unusually peculiar Finnish act Opium Warlords, whose lone member, as far as I can tell, is Sami Albert Hynninen (who’s been in a shitload of other bands, though the only one I’ve ever heard of is Reverend Bizarre).

Referring to the band as “a vessel of sonic occultism”, Hynninen also seems to have some sense of humor buried amidst Opium Warlords' dark, somber aesthetic. For example, the first two influences listed on the MySpace page are Toto and Burzum, and the band is also self-described to “sound like” everything from “gothic vampire shit” to “a Bolivian doom metal band learning a riff”.

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