ELECTRIC WIZARD — Black Masses (review)

ELECTRIC WIZARD — Black Masses album cover Album · 2010 · Stoner Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
Warthur
At first this was the only Electric Wizard album that didn't quite scratch the doom metal riff for me, but over time it's grown on me. The production is different from usual and the band tease out a bit more of their psychedelic side than their crushingly heavy Dopethrone-style side.. The subject matter is the same old territory for the band, though the closing track Crypt of Drugula is a sonic experiment which doesn't quite work and certainly doesn't merit the amount of time allocated to it. (Now, if it had appeared on the previous album - Witchcult Today - as a brief intro to The Satanic Rites of Drugula, that'd rock.) The previous two Electric Wizard Mk. II albums had so successfully salvaged the band's sound, so I think it's fair enough they take a chance to experiment here, even though I'm not quite as enamored of the results as I am of superior Wizard albums.
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