Texas-based classic rockers Scorpion Child will release their second album, Acid Roulette, on June 10th via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Listen to the album track “Moon Tension” below:

Vocalist Aryn Jonathan Black discusses the concept behind the artwork in the trailer below.

“It’s a representation of sexuality" comments Aryn. "The colors, the mystique, the poison and evil and just everything discussed in the record is more or less this man who has everything stripped from him and is enslaved and put away from his children, his family. It’s a very dark subject matter."

"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, pictured below, was a collaboration by Aryn Jonathan Black, photographer Max Taylor and graphic designer Rob Kimura.

Tracklisting:

“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”

“My Woman In Black” lyric video:

“She Sings, I Kill” lyric video:

Scorpion Child is:

Aryn Jonathan Black - Vocals
Christopher Jay Cowart - Lead Guitar
Jon "Charn" Rice - Drums
Alec Caballero Padron – Bass
AJ Vincent - Keyboards

(Photo - Francois Berland)