Electric Wizard - Black Masses
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Artist: Electric WizardBrand: Metal Blade Records
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2011-01-18
Music Label: Metal Blade
Soundtracks:
- Black Mass
- Venus in Furs
- The Nightchild
- Patterns of Evil
- Satyr IX
- Turn Off Your Mind
- Scorpio Curse
- Crypt of Drugula
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Music Review: Retro doom and nasty attitudes
Rating: 5 Stars
Electric Wizard bring up the question, which has no real answer, who is the heaviest band ever? Well, kiddies, anybody who thinks Electric Wizard is must be too young to remember Black Sabbath or the first generation of doom merchants like St. Vitus or Celtic Frost. Not that "Black Masses" isn't heavy - it'll give your eardrums a hernia for sure, but this album's charm is its loving care of all things doom, never forgetting his Blackness Tony Iommi, the true Godfather of all things metal, at least in the guitar department.
You have to be old enough to understand that at one time, as opposed to being a classic band that is used for movies and commercials nowadays, "Iron Man" especially, in the early years Black Sabbath were as evil and scary as it got. Only the most daring of us in high school would venture into that world, and you can bet in the Bible Belt where I grew up, the very name of Black Sabbath would make preachers foam at the mouth. The cover of "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath" was scandalous. Even amongst us rockers, we felt a little apprehension when we first popped Sabbath into the eight track (yes, I'm that old), but the dark powers overcame us and we became fans, especially, I remember, the ghostly feedback and thump of "Children Of The Grave", which was about as wicked as it got, as far as we were concerned.
Now, that's all camp. Electric Wizard echo the sickest bends Iommi produced, and make fine doom metal, the kind that makes you want to fire up a doobie thirty or so years after you quit. It's stoner heaven, or hell, if you prefer, with riffs as big as landslides and about as fast. It's a good release and somewhat refreshing in the face of all the metalcore screaming going on. But is it the heaviest music on the planet? Hardly. You'd have to erase the impact of Black Sabbath's early albums to make that happen. Plus, High On Fire and Celtic Frost/Triptycon fans will have something to say about it. Still, smoke 'em if you got 'em and fire up the old VW van. Electric Wizard rocks.
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Description of Black Masses
2010 album from the British Doom Metal band. Still the heaviest band on the planet, this time around there is a stronger emphasis on song structure and musicianship than on previous outings. Black Masses is an encyclopedia referencing the history o Heavy Metal from the Kinks to right through to Bathory, thematically governed by occult knowledge passed down from their ancestors. A trip through every aspect of everything that's cool about underground drug-rock from the head-spinning Satanic Psychedelia of 'Patterns Of Evil' through to the NWOBHM on LSD churning of 'Turn Off Your Mind', Black Masses is the album Electric Wizard always threatened to make. It's here, and listening to the end of the world was never meant to sound this good.Hard Rock & Metal CDs
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