Brilliant Texans discuss concepts
Austin heavy psych-rockers Scorpion Child have released a video trailer for their forthcoming album, Acid Roulette. Watch as vocalist Aryn Jonathan Black discusses the concept behind the artwork:
Aryn comments, “It’s a representation of sexuality”… “The colors, the mystique, the poison and evil and just everything discussed in the record is more or less this man who has everything striped from him and is enslaved and put away from his children, his family. It’s a very dark subject matter.”
Acid Roulette will be released on June 10, 2016 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment:
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“Acid Roulette chronicles the life trials of a traveling man who was imprisoned for a murderous crime,”comments Aryn . “He was forced into confessing by his wife and her wealthy lover so that they could live out their romance without him in the picture. Once sentenced to a life’s term, he goes through extreme emotions dealing with the only woman he’d ever loved taking everything he’d known as “real” away from him. He has to create and redefine his own reality accompanied by its roller coaster of emotional reflection. He experiences many different psychological changes throughout the years and escapes by means of drugs and his writings. These songs become his diary of a madman. The focus is mainly on the seasons in a year, for each song represents a month. The songs exist to drive home the full power of human emotion as many albums do, however, Acid Roulette wires us into those extremes.”
Once again, the band recorded at The Bubble in Austin, TX with Chris ‘Frenchie’ Smith (The Answer, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead…) who produced and arranged the band’s self-titled, first full-length. Acid Roulette was mixed by Dave Schiffman (The Mars Volta, Dead Meadow, Jane’s Addiction, Rage Against The Machine). The album’s artwork was a collaboration between Aryn Jonathan Black,photographer Max Taylor and graphic designer Rob Kimura.
Track list as follows:
CD:
1. She Sings, I Kill
2. Reaper’s Danse
3. My Woman In Black
4. Acid Roulette
5. Winter Side Of Deranged
6. Séance
7. Twilight Coven
8. Survives
9. Blind Man’s Shine
10. Moon Tension
11. Tower Grove
12. I Might Be Your Man
13. Addictions
Vinyl:
Side One (Autumn):
1. She Sings, I Kill
2. Reaper’s Danse
3. My Woman In Black
Side Two (Winter):
1. Acid Roulette
2. Winter Side Of Deranged
3. Séance
4. Twilight Coven
Side Three (Spring):
1. Survives
2. Blind Man’s Shine
3. Moon Tension
Side Four (Summer):
1. Tower Grove
2. I Might Be Your Man
3. Addictions
