We're weren't sure if anyone from Saviours was into hard drugs, and we were guessing the title of their song "Narcotic Sea" was more metaphoric than dope-depraved even before drummer Scott Batiste gave us his analysis of the video.
"The 'Narcotic Sea' video is basically about being in a self-induced haze during the Earth's final days," he explained. "We wanted to capture 'a little bit of Oakland' in our first video so, part of the video features us jamming out in a West Oakland warehouse. The rest is us on a quest for killer times in spite of all the decay and depression that surrounds us each day. We took a trip up Highway 1 (north of San Francisco) and hit up some killer rock formations and beaches and just partied, basically. Dante Della Maggiore, who directed the video, then took all of the footage and tripped it out as hard as possible.'"
Even without the revealing description, it's pretty easy to tell where these dudes are coming from. This Oakland-based band plays heavy clouds of stoner-metal, paying homage to the herb-saturated riffage of Black Sabbath, Cathedral and High on Fire along the way. Click on the "read more" tag to check out the video for "Narcotic Sea." The track comes from their new album Into Abaddon, which came out in January.
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