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Rise Above Religion - Electric Wizard
Sold Date:
September 23, 2015
Start Date:
February 24, 2015
Final Price:
£14.50
(GBP)
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General
Article name:
Electric Wizard
Genre:
Heavy Metal
Product type:
LP (Vinyl)
Label:
RISE ABOVE
Number of tracks:
10
Tracklist LP - 1
1. Electric Wizard - Stone Magnet
2. Electric Wizard - Mourning Prayer
3. Electric Wizard - Mountains of Mars
4. Electric Wizard - Behemoth
5. Electric Wizard - Devil's Bride
6. Electric Wizard - Black Butterfly
7. Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard
8. Electric Wizard - Wooden Pipe
Tracklist - 2
Electric Wizard - Illimitable Nebulie
Electric Wizard - Mourning Prayer [Part 1]
Description
Description
When Electric Wizard first emerged, seemingly fully formed from the hallowed wombs of the doom metal gods (well, Dorset, England, anyway), all most listeners could do was stand in dumbfounded awe -- such was the power and magnitude with which the trio delivered its monolithic epics. Taking up the torch from doom pioneers like Saint Vitus, Sleep, and more recently Britain's own Cathedral, the eternally stoned-out trio went about setting a new standard for slothful, detuned heavy metal noisemaking; yet -- amazingly, compared to subsequent efforts -- their eponymous debut's crushing wall of sludge would soon seem almost lightweight. Most of the songs on Electric Wizard crawl along at a snail's pace, their mind-numbing riffs exploring the lowest imaginable sonic frequencies still within human range. Except for the trippy space rock guitar of "Mountains of Mars," the entire record revels in the purest, uncompromising post-Sabbath doom metal dirge, a great part of which may prove too sluggish and impenetrable for inexperienced listeners. But for knowledgeable consumers of the genre, weed-worshipping anthems like "Stone Magnet," "Devil's Bride," and the group's awesome namesake, "Electric Wizard" (which is introduced by a long, highly suspicious exhaled breath), amount to a mind-shattering experience...prepare to be enlightened. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia
Eduardo Rivadavia
Contributors Record Label: Rise Above Religion Record Label: MSI Music Distribution Current Distributor: Plastic Head Music Artist: Electric Wizard
