released Opiate

After almost two years of practicing and performing locally in the Los Angeles area, the band was approached by record companies, and eventually signed a record deal with Zoo Entertainment . In March 1992, Zoo released the band’s first effort, Opiate . Described by the band as “slam and bang” heavy music and the “hardest sounding” six songs they had written to that point, the EP included the singles ” Hush ” and ” Opiate “. The band’s first music video, “Hush”, promoted their dissenting views about the then-prominent Parents Music Resource Center and its advocacy of the censorship of music . The video featured the band members naked with their genitalia covered by Parental Advisory stickers and their mouths covered by duct tape. The band began touring with Rollins Band , Fishbone , Rage Against the Machine , White Zombie , and Corrosion of Conformity , to positive responses, which Janiss Garza of RIP Magazine summarized in September 1992 as a “buzz” and “a strong start”.