electric wizard c/d

>Electric Wizard are now ready to officially unveil a new line up & announce news of their forthcoming Fifth album. Following the departure of former drummer Mark Greening (drums), the band recruited the punishing skills of former Iron Monkey drummer Justin Greaves to fill the position behind the kit. Following these excursions, bassist Tim decided that he no longer wanted to play bass and decided to leave, forming a new band with the recently departed Greening. Deciding to refrain media attention until a stable line up was in place, founder member Jus Oborn decided to recruit the services of a second guitarist, Liz Buckingham, who had previously played with legendary cult all girl New York Doom/Crust band 13 and more recently with Southern Lord recording artists Sourvein. Filling in the bass position is friend of the band Rob Al-Issa. The band recently re-entered Chuckalumba in Dorset to lay down Seven new earth shattering tracks for the forthcoming album - ‘We Live’ – quite an apt title, all things considered. Leader Oborn is in the process of relocating to the States, where the album is scheduled to be mixed with legendary noise meister Billy Anderson. Some titles to be included are: "Living Dead at Manchester Morgue", "Saturns Children" & the enigmatic "Eko Eko Azarak" amongst others. ‘We Live’ is scheduled for in January 2004.

i like dopethrone quite a bit, especially the title track, "i, witchfinder" and especially "vinum sabbathi"!! so i'm a bit surprised by your comment ned - tho i agree "funeralopolis" is a bit of a snore, and the "weird tales" suite that follows takes a while to warm up.

excited to hear the new one sounds good! what's the new direction of electric wizard??

Electric Wizard UK Tour. (1st with We Live line-up)
Capricorns
UK Dates Spring 2005

Wednesday 27th April - Manchester - Jabez Clegg
Thursday 28th April Glasgow - Cathouse
Friday 29th April Birmingham - Jug of Ale (+ Mistress)
Saturday 30th April London - The Garage
Sunday 1st May Bristol - Fiddlers (+Gonga)

Who are Capricorns?
And are EW worth going to see live? Has anyone ever seen them live?

New album rules! Might be the best yet.

really? i'd kind of given up on these.

Well you shouldn't. This album is a bit more like Dopethrone mixed with the self-titled and it utterly kills.

i dont like it much :/

I really like the recent Weedeater album. It's very similar to Dopethrone.

"We Live" was horrible. Endlessly boring, and the singer sounds like Liam Gallagher of all people on it.

'funeralopolis' is not just a fantastic song, but pretty much the benchmark for the genre.

awesome song

I wish they would tour the new album soon.

Who else loves the new album?

i haven't heard it yet, i feel kind of bad about that. i love (LOVE) the come my fanatics-supercoven period, i just haven't checked out the last two. which is stupid because i loved liz in 13. sourvein, too. so i should really get on it instead of just bumpin' threads about it.

New album sounds kinda dumb.

Yeah it's totally nincompoopy

New album is almost, but not quite, the equal of Dopethrone. Totally different, but the second guitarist/organist really allows them to open up and explore some different sonics.

this probably falls into the category of ed's bizarro opinions, but I prefer the original release of dopethrone over the remastered one. it sounds weird to talk about the subtleties of knuckledragging doomrock, but the album's appeal is tied to its sonic impact, and the remaster tames the original's unruly bass frequencies ever so slightly. probably not enough to bug anybody else, but enough to lessen my enjoyment of the album.

and anybody who doesn't get the appeal of dopethrone is probably listening to it through their fucking ipod earbuds instead of through massive speakers set on stun.

another thing about the remastered dopethrone,(which is the one i've got as well as the only one i've heard, i still love it) -- the title track is cut in half to make room for the bonus track at the end. kind of a bummer, especially since 'dopethrone's one of the best tunes on there.

you know what i love, when it comes to production? that you can hear the amplifiers rattling the wires on the snare drum when the drummer's not playing. so fucking LOUD.

(that statement specifically regarding "come my fanatics")

I dont think the vinyl reissues were remastered, just the cds.

Yeah, I asked around and the vinyl wasn't remastered. I was pretty sure Lee said that at the time they went on sale.

I had no idea there was a difference between versions of Dopethrone. I have the remaster I think. I guess I should try and download an original version and see what the difference is.

My cds are the originals. Vinyls mostly are the new ones.

http://www.deadformat.net/artist/Electric+Wizard

I spin the first s/t album at my Dj night all the time. It might secretly be their best album.

Could get behind this.

Dunno if Soukesian reads this thread, but I had Dopethrone on for the first time in ages and was struck by how much one of the sections in Weird Tales sounds like Goat Science. You'll know which bit I mean when you hear it.

Have the CD, but I'm afraid it somehow never really clicked for me. I'll dig it out, stick Weird Tales on and let you know what I think.

That'll be the bit with the ragged vocals then? No, definitely some familiar-sounding grooves in there!

dopethrone

still need to check these dudes out

dopethrone's classick

Dopethrone and the s/t. Those are the two for me.

withcult today prob is my fave now

Been meaning to pick that one up. Must remember to look for it next time I'm down the shop.

satanic rites of drugula

anyone else heard "black masses" yet? just started listenin to it

not yet! curious abt it though

Yeah, I've heard it; wrote about it here.

One of my albums of the year. It's got some lighter, almost poppy moments on it (it's all relative right?). I reckon it's also the most psychedelic record they've done. Just killer riffs all the way through it. The last track is like a thunder storm!

The only things wrong with it are the poor art and the puns in the song titles...

I woke up this morning singing "Black mass! Black mass! Help me Lucifer!" Which was nice.

This band has been on the decline for me since Dopethrone. I was ready to give up after hearing We Live (which sounded like Liam Gallagher had joined the band). I heard Witchcult Today was supposed to be good, but never got round to giving it a proper listen. Is this a "return to form" then?

No. I'm a really big fan and think that 1, they never really went that bad and 2, if there is anything approaching a 'return to form' then it is 'Witchcult Today'. And as Unperson rightly says in his review, Dopethrone's not the be all and end all. Whatabout Supercoven, Come My Fanatics etc?

I love everything leading up to Dopethrone and I have time for Let Us Prey (although not as good). Am I right in thinking they had a line-up change before We Live?

...only the vocals on that album sucked. And it felt like a retread of old material. I'll def check out Black Masses and Witchcult Today.

Black Masses just sounds so good. On Venus In Furs, the guitars sound like Moogs.

'scorpio curse' is so dope. i approve 100% of the earth crashing into the sun.

Scorpio Curse definitely the highpoint of the new album for me. I'm digging Black Masses but it isn't quite as good as Witchcult Today.

for my money, witchcult and black masses are roughly equivalent, and anyone who dropped out in the wake of we live and let us prey owes themselves a catch-up (calling dog latin).

once upon a time, i'd have said dopethrone towered above the rest, and it's still what i'd first recommend to the curious, but at this point, i'm most fond of come my fanatics and the last two. want my wizard all gooey and (ponderously) swinging.

Black Masses just sounds so good. On Venus In Furs, the guitars sound like Moogs.

― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Wednesday, November 24, 2010 4:11 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark

^ noes what's up

yeah black masses is as good as anything theyve done

^^^^

Loved black masses but never spun witchcult more than once or twice. Should rectify that.

These guys never really fell off imo. Let us prey is patchy but there's some killer stuff on there.

fuck, 'return trip'. never gets old.

new record soon: http://psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com/2014/02/electric-wizard-announces-new-album.html

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/21/348988770/first-listen-electric-wizard-time-to-die

IT'S TIME TO DIE, ILM

haven't anticipated a new EW album since Let Us Prey but I'm looking forward to this one.

On first listen it's my least favorite Electric Wizard record.

i really liked the last one so this one has elevated expectations to meet.

not quite as riffy as i was hoping on first listen but it has an intriguing river-of-sludge quality to it

i wonder if maybe this soft-and-muffled-pillows production approach they're sticking with is meant to make it less of a bad trip, so you don't freak out and hurt yourself

i think i read someone say the one track sounds like a thunderstorm, it really does, it's weird

gave a cursory listen last night. you're right - it's incredibly muffled. thinking of doing my own eq job on it.

http://i.imgur.com/VOrcwWR.jpg

what's supposed to be wrong with 'we live'

it sounds pretty wicked

singer sounds like liam gallagher on that record.

You mean instead of Robert Smith like on the last two?

that's about the fourth time you've made that 'joke', dl, hire better writers

not a joke? that album was feeble.

no it wasnt

although you're right i've said it twice already.

We Live is awesome. SO heavy.

it's deep

http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2017/11/02/electric-wizard-wizard-bloody-wizard-review/

it's good. i like it better right off than 'time to die'.

I think I posted this somewhere else a while back - maybe the greatest passage from a band's Wikipedia page I've ever read:

The band's name was taken from two Black Sabbath songs: "Electric Funeral" and "The Wizard". Oborn remarked, "Is the name Electric Wizard made out of two Black Sabbath song titles? (smokes a big bud of weed through a can) Hahahaha, yeah it is!"[4]

it has come to my attention that ned was right all along - “witchcult today” really is their masterpiece.

only took me 18 years to come around, though i think ez snappin, contenderizer and a couple others concur at various points upthread

it's really good! i had kind of given up on them for a bit but i bought it on a lark and it's excellent.

what's supposed to be wrong with 'we live'

it sounds pretty wicked

― j., Friday, April 24, 2015 1:33 AM (seven years ago)

you know I didn't care for it when it originally came out and in retrospect it's great, possibly my favorite production of their later stuff, massive seething distortion.