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28 ноя 2024
ELECTRIC WIZARD To Release Double Live Album In December; Preorders Live
Recorded onto a 16-track tape machine, capturing their essence and malevolence, Black Magic Rituals And Perversions Vol. 1 is as heavy as can be expected from The Wizard.
“It's raw as f**k,” boasts Jus. “It’s like a lost ‘70s black metal demo rehearsal session or something. It’s raw, nasty, screaming in your face. I always promised Electric Wizard was like rats in your face. This is verging on it.”
As the COVID pandemic took hold in 2020, Electric Wizard wondered if they might ever play live again. Out in the wilds of the English Westcountry where singer/guitarist Jus Oborn and guitarist Liz Buckingham live, the band descended into their crypt-like jam space to make a live album like no other.
“We’d been gigging for two years at that point, around America three times, going to Japan and Australia, and we were sounding pretty good by the end of it,” adds Jus. “When the pandemic happened we thought, ‘F**k it, maybe we’ll never play again.’ So we went into the jam room and played the songs to get them on tape to capture how we were playing at the time.”
Opening with the enormous "Dopethrone", and taking in signature apocalyptic doom staples like "Witchcult Today," "Satanic Rites of Drugula," and the ever-destructive "Funeralopolis," the set here shows how powerful and dominating The Wizard can be.
Jus says he wanted to capture a feeling like that of Motörhead’s classic No Sleep 'til Hammersmith (1981), or the sense from KISS’ ALIVE! (1975) that you were getting a window into something, a world the band created. It’s also, he says, an opportunity for a band as big and cult-like as electric wizard to bring something from metal’s dirty underbelly into the light, if only to freak out t
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