Opulence comprises New York City underground veterans who have a shared 20-year history perfecting the arts of chaos and excess—both on stage and off—while serving in the ranks of subterranean legends Toilet Boys, Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Grounded, and VILE to name but a few.
Opulence’s debut album, Black Magic, is a sonic continuum of ferocious riffs and foreboding incantations that form a peculiar yet beguiling anthology fully immersed in the dark arts. The genre-bending sound is steeped in traditional extreme influences from Fiend Club to Faust, thrash metal to street punk, psychedelic space to Mercyful Fate. The product is an organic compound of black magic doom played by stoney, seasoned Punx from the streets of New York.
The aural alchemy is refined by frontman Adam Cardone, an official liaison/reverend of Anton LaVey’s Church of Satan and an inducted member of the Order of Merlin by the International Brotherhood of Magicians. The enigmatic visuals are the spawn of guitar player Sean Pierce, whose journey from drug-dealing sex worker to Emmy-nominated designer/animator has forged an uncompromising context that frames the Opulence experience.
The lush, rhythmic foundation of drummer Eric Opulence and Bass God Bull is steeped in decades of dedication in various bands with members of Cro-Mags, D Generation, Black Anvil, Sebastian Bach, and Hanoi Rocks, cultivating a confidence and swagger injected lethally throughout the Opulence sound.
Featuring an opening proclamation by Poison Idea’s Jerry A., and a lavish vocal cameo by Lunachicks’ Theo Kogan, Black Magic delivers a surge of malevolent excess that will strike down anyone who might stand in its way.
