Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard

The first release from Dorset's drug-fuelled doom metal band Electric Wizard is less distinctive than their later works, more directly derivative of the classic doom tradition pioneered by bands like Black Sabbath in the seventies, but still applying a more modern sound with production trickery. These songs are long, sloooow and heavy, crawling along with frank disregard for musical convention, though lacking the effective wall-of-sound approach of subsequent releases. None of these songs really stand out apart from the atmospheric instrumental 'Mountains of Mars,' but this is still a high quality album of stoner doom, with some blues-influenced guitar solos ...  Read the complete review