ELECTRIC WIZARD — We Live (review)

ELECTRIC WIZARD — We Live album cover Album · 2004 · Stoner Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
Electric Wizard is dead, long live the Electric Wizard! With the rest of the Mark I lineup abandoning Jus Oborn after the acrimonious recording process of Let Us Prey, people were already writing the band's obituary, but Oborn was able to bring together a new lineup to create a new and intriguing album which reassured listeners that Electric Wizard were back on the right course.

The band's well-known fascination with cult pulp fiction and campy horror movies from yesteryear has thankfully survived the lineup change, and indeed seems to be pushed to the fore on this one, and on top of that the band seem to be playing more of a playful and fun style of doom metal than previously, adding a little groove to their formula and generally showing more energy than the massive, lethargic riffs of Dopethrone. The Electric Wizard which produced classics like that album and Come My Fanatics is gone, and We Live is convincing evidence that we're not going to get it back - but this new Electric Wizard is an interesting prospect in its own right.
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