Texan classic rockers Scorpion Child will release their second album, Acid Roulette, on June 10, 2016 via Nuclear Blast Entertainment.

“Acid Roulette chronicles the life trials of a traveling man who was imprisoned for a murderous crime,” comments vocalist Aryn Jonathan Black. “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, pictured above, was a collaboration by Aryn Jonathan Black, photographer Max Taylor and graphic designer Rob Kimura.

Track list and formats as follows:
CD:
She Sings, I Kill
Reaper’s Danse
My Woman In Black
Acid Roulette
Winter Side Of Deranged
Séance
Twilight Coven
Survives
Blind Man’s Shine
Moon Tension
Tower Grove
I Might Be Your Man
Addictions

Vinyl:
Side One (Autumn):
She Sings, I Kill
Reaper’s Danse
My Woman In Black

Side Two (Winter):
Acid Roulette
Winter Side Of Deranged
Séance
Twilight Coven

Side Three (Spring):
Survives
Blind Man’s Shine
Moon Tension

Side Four (Summer):
Tower Grove
I Might Be Your Man
Addictions

This week the band kiceds off their European trek as support for the legendary space rock icons Monster Magnet!

Commented Aryn Jonathan Black: “Monster Magnet are an amazing band! We can’t wait to share the stage with them. We will be performing a great deal of new material that will be featured on the new album that’s due out this summer! Can this tour hurry up and begin already??”

w/ MONSTER MAGNET – REMAINING DATES
09.03. NOR Drammen – Drammen Scener
10.03. SVE Gothenburg – Trädgarn
11.03. SVE Stockholm – Gota Kallare*
12.03. DAN Copenhagen – Pumpehuset
13.03. DEU Hamburg – Markthalle
14.03. DEU Berlin – Huxley’s
15.03. OST Wien – Szene
16.03. DEU Lichtenfels – Paunchy Cats*
17.03. DEU Wiesbaden – Schlachthof
18.03. DEU Cologne – Gloria
19.03. ENG London – The Forum (+ Orange Goblin)
20.03. DEU Düsseldorf – Pitcher*
21.03. SUI Pratteln – Z7
22.03. SUI Winterthur – Salzhaus
23.03. DEU Karlsruhe – Substage
24.03. DEU Rheine – Hypothalamus*
25.03. NED Utrecht – Tivoli
26.03. BEL Ostende – Zwerver
27.03. NED Schijndel – Paaspop Festival*
28.03. DEU Rosenhof – Osnabrück

*Scorpion Child Only

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