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Electric Wizard (Music)
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Electric Wizard is a British Doom Metal / Stoner Metal band formed in 1993. Their style is slow, heavy and fuzzy, with lyrics typically involving marijuana, the occult, witchcraft, H. P. Lovecraft and horror films. They are generally considered one of the major bands of the stoner metal subgenre, though they also have sludge metal traits in their more aggressive material (such as Dopethrone).Initially, the band was a power trio consisting of vocalist / guitarist Jus Oborn, bassist Tim Bagshaw and drummer Mark Greening; in 2003, the latter two members left the band, leaving Oborn to recruit a new lineup, which included his wife, Liz Buckingham, as second guitarist.The band is best known for their albums Come My Fanatics... and Dopethrone. Both are considered staples in the stoner metal genre with the latter of the two notably receiving a perfect score from AllMusic, a rating that the site rarely gives to modern albums, especially modern metal albums.Current lineup: Jus Oborn - vocals, guitar Liz Buckingham - guitar Clayton Burgess - bass Shaun Rutter - drumsPast members: Rob Al-Issa – bass Tim Bagshaw – bass Tasos "Tas" Danazoglou - bass Mark Greening – drums Justin Greaves – drumsStudio albums: Electric Wizard, 1995 Come My Fanatics..., 1997 Dopethrone, 2000 Let Us Prey, 2002 We Live, 2004 Witchcult Today, 2007 Black Masses, 2010 Time to Die, 2014 Wizard Bloody Wizard, 2017 | |
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Gratuitous Spanish | |
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Gratuitous Spanish: The subtitle of "I, the Witchfinder" ("Las Torturas de la Inquisición") means "The Tortures of the Inquisition". | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Partial drop of the band name, from the very start of "Barbarian": "The wizard!". | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Electric Wizard albums are bleak and chaotic, with apocalyptic lyrics growled through a wall of distortion. No shortage of drugs to go around while we wait at least. | |
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Watch It Stoned | |
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Watch It Stoned: Only if you can handle the pummeling sound, which is disorienting enough while sober. | |
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Miniscule Rocking | |
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Miniscule Rocking: "The Hills Have Eyes" isn't even fifty seconds long, though it's an excerpt of a longer jam. | |
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Ode to Intoxication | |
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Ode to Intoxication: They're quite fond of weed. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: A common lyrical theme, usually unspeakable horrors or more cynically, our own destructive tendencies as the culprit. | |
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Burn the Witch! | |
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Burn the Witch!: "I, The Witchfinder" mixes this with Cold-Blooded Torture. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: We're all doomed, eldritch horrors from space, black magic, human greed, or all of the above will do us all in, eventually. | |
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Trope Codifier | |
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Trope Codifier: For sludgy, stoner-influenced Doom Metal. Indeed, it's all but impossible to find a fan of the above genres that hasn't at least listened to/been influenced by more than one of their albums. | |
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Sampling | |
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Sampling: From Come My Fanatics... and onward, many songs in their discography have small samples from movies or PSA's at the beginning. | |
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Three Chords and the Truth | |
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Three Chords and the Truth: "Dunwich". | |
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Drone of Dread | |
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Drone of Dread: Arguably one of the first to incorporate this heavily into the Doom Metal genre. The thick, meaty sound of their amped guitars produces this effect, which is particularly heavy on Dopethrone, but is present to some extent on all of their work. | |
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The Stoner | |
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The Stoner: And unashamedly so. They casually and often mention lighting bongs, or doing just that in interviews. Heck you can even hear them hitting it up at the end of some songs, as if zoning out to gear up for the next jam. If you pay enough attention, you can even hear them lighting up during "Funeralopolis". | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: Most of their output, to the point where it's much, much easier to count the tracks that are less than five minutes in length. Amongst their full-length albums, the longest tracks are "Weird Tales" and "Saturn's Children", both around fifteen minutes in length. ("Dopethrone" and "Mind Transferral" on various editions of Dopethrone are slight subversions, each containing a hidden track after several minutes of silence, though they're both around ten minutes even without the hidden track.) "Burnout", from an EP, is even longer, at 18:38, as is the complete version of "Chrono.Naut", which runs for around seventeen minutes. | |
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Instrumentals | |
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Instrumentals: "Mind Transferral", "Ivixor B/Phase Inducer", "Solarian 13", "Mountains of Mars", "Master of Alchemy", "Night of the Shape", "Raptus", "Black Magic Rituals & Perversions", "Crypt of Drugula", "Destroy Those Who Love God", "Saturn Dethroned"... | |
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Signature Style | |
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Signature Style: Loud, heavy riffs played slowly even by the genre's standards, with distorted, screamed shouts in a mix of Doom Sludge, with varying amounts of Psychedelic Rock. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: The ancient Yuggoth mentioned in "Weird Tales" seems to be one of the sleeping and soon to be awoken variety. "Dunwich" is about the eponymous Horror from H. P. Lovecraft 's story. | |
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Studio Chatter | |
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Studio Chatter: Not much, but quite a few tracks start with some mumbles, creaking feedback, and tuning before the amps start blasting away. | |
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I Am the Band | |
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I Am the Band: Jus Oborn is the sole remaining founding member of the band. | |
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Black Magic | |
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Black Magic: Everything in "Vinum Sabbathi." | |
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Loudness War | |
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Loudness War: Their material since Come My Fanatics... has fallen under this trope, with Dopethrone being the worst of the lot (DR4 on the original, DR3 on the remaster). Vinyl versions tend to be significantly quieter than the CD / digital versions, though, as is usually the case. | |
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Indecipherable Lyrics | |
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Indecipherable Lyrics: Generally, the singing is clean, but quiet under everything else and usually also muffled, so only a few phrases can be made out of an entire song. See Harsh Vocals above for how close the trope is played straight. | |
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Rock Me, Asmodeus! | |
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Rock Me, Asmodeus!: The cover of Dopethrone depicts either Satan or the titular 'Electric Wizard' smoking a bong. | |
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Mutually Assured Destruction | |
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Mutually Assured Destruction: Where the death world on "Funeralopolis" comes from. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Being a stoner doom band, Electric Wizard tends to have a lot of shout outs to stoner, grindhouse, and pulp fantasy fiction. "Barbarian" is a song about, you guessed it, Conan the Barbarian. "I, the Witchfinder" is about the old movie Mark of the Devil. The band's name comes from Black Sabbath — namely, by combining two of their song titles ("Electric Funeral" and "The Wizard"). A further Black Sabbath Shout-Out is the cover art to the EP Legalise Drugs and Murder, which looks very similar to that of Sabbath's Master of Reality. Wizard Bloody Wizard references Black Sabbath's album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. | |
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Self-Titled Album | |
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Self-Titled Album: As seen above. Adding more to this example, the album has a title track (so, Electric Wizard - "Electric Wizard", from Electric Wizard). | |
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Start My Own | |
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Start My Own: Tim Bagshaw and Serpentine Path. And Ramesses, which also featured Mark Greening. Subverted with Burgess and Satan's Satyrs, as the latter was around well before he joined Electric Wizard. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: Not to these guys, at any rate. This trope is mocked in most samples that aren't taken from horror films, where a PSA clip about the dangers of drugs will get played. Cue ten-minute jams about tripping out on bud. | |
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Hollywood Satanism | |
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Hollywood Satanism: The title track from Black Masses is a Satanic ritual, an attempt to summon the Devil himself. | |
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Hidden Track | |
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Hidden Track: A soundbite of Moral Guardians' panic about heavy metal music is placed at the end of Dopethrone, followed by an Evil Laugh. This provides Bookends to the whole album, since it opens with a sample from the same panic. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: In particular, the first three songs on Dopethrone do this, as do tracks 4-6. | |
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Heavy Mithril | |
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Heavy Mithril: In the midst of the omnipresent Lovecraft worship, there's the odd song on other pulp fantasy fiction with a sprinkle of horror movie soundbites. | |
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Harsh Vocals | |
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Harsh Vocals: A case where the degree of harshness varies not by the style, but the production. Oborn consistently uses something between a shout and a moan, which gets distorted to certain extents. In Dopethrone, for example, not only are the vocals fuzzy and reverberating, but are pushed so far back in the mix it sounds like they're coming from the inside of an inter-dimensional vacuum cleaner. Witchcult Today and We Live are heavily distorted, but put in front of the mix, making a keen listener able to understand what Jus's going on about. The first album uses clean, unmixed singing altogether. | |
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