Dopethrone - Electric Wizard

'Dopethrone' is simultaneously Electric Wizard's finest offering and one of the defining albums of modern doom metal. Making no small display of the band's orientation towards drug worship, this isn't permitted to take over the music or lyrics to a ridiculous extent (not like the work of Bongzilla for example), but it would still prove immensely satisfying to like-minded listeners (I imagine). Jus Osborn's vocals are now more distorted, adding to the slightly inhuman and synthetic atmosphere, and the guitar riffs are actually fun and memorable for once, a little reminiscent of Cathedral (though their extremely stoned take on the story of Hopkins, Witchfinder ...  Read the complete review