Athens, Georgia's mulifarious psychedelic roadwarriors Dark Meat have geared up for another get-go of pillage-and-freakout in the name of their newest offering, Truce Opium. A long period of line-up changes, label complications and heavy touring across North America and Europe has focused the band into a diamond-hard and transformative experience: they've trimmed their lineup to a highly-effective and barely-anemic nine piece and, in the process, have organically developed an intense and diverse instrumental chemistry. Truly, Truce Opium retains all the insane eccentricity, rawness and sonic bombast of their infamous live show, and evinces a sharpened essence and unified vision burnished by the last three years spent spraying themselves across the cosmos in their cramped tour-van.