ELECTRIC WIZARD — Dopethrone (review)

ELECTRIC WIZARD — Dopethrone album cover Album · 2000 · Stoner Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
Warthur
Electric Wizard's monumental classic of doom metal absolutely drowns the listener in some of the heaviest riffs ever recorded. Any slower and we'd be getting into drone metal territory; as it is, the band expertly judge the balance between slower sections and faster and livelier workouts.

Jus Oborn's fuzzed-out vocals call out from deep in the mix like he's emerging from a thick fog (or weed smoke), and Bagshaw and Greening as the rhythm section are almost completely upstaged by Oborn's lead riffs. Just listen to Funeralopolis and tell me the guitar on that - particularly when things really kick into gear, after Jus is done coughing on a joint in the intro - doesn't sound like the sky is falling.

The best version of Dopethrone to acquire is the recent reissue, which adds the live workout Mind Transferral to the running order - unlike most bonus tracks applied to albums, this one fits in perfectly with the rest of the material here, and the subtle addition of the concluding sample from the original album to the end of Mind Transferral is a clear sign Oborn considers it to be an integral part of the Dopethrone experience. But whichever one you get, brace yourself, because a doom metal experience like no other awaits you when you sample these deep tokes from Satan's own bong.
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UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
You won´t find many albums from the 00s that can already be called classics, but this one is certainly one of those.

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