Electric_Wizard-Dopethrone-(Remastered)-2006-QK

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Release Info:

Artist      : Electric Wizard
Album       : Dopethrone
Genre       : Metal
Date        : 06-20-2006
Year        : 2006
Encoder     : Lame 3.90
Quality     : VBRkbps - 44,1kHz - Joint-Stereo
Tracks      : 09
Playtime    : 75:56 min
Label       : Rise Above
Size        : 130,0 MB
Source      : CDDA

Tracklist:

01) Vinum Sabbathi                                             [03:06]
02) Funeralopolis                                              [08:43]
03) Weird Tales I.Electric Frost II.Golgotha III.Altar Of      [15:05]
    Melektaus
04) Barbarian                                                  [06:30]
05) I, The Witchfinder                                         [11:04]
06) The Hills Have Eyes                                        [00:47]
07) We Hate You                                                [05:09]
08) Dopethrone                                                 [10:36]
09) Mind Transferral (Bonus Track)                             [14:56]
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                                                              75:56 min
                                                              130,0 MB

Release Notes:



Originally released way back in 2000, now re-issued with expanded artwork, new
liner notes, tons of photos, and most importantly a 15 minute bonus track!!!
Here's what we were smoking when we first got this in way back when:
These British lads have the distinction of being, as far as we know, the first
*metal* band ever reviewed in the hallowed pages of popular cutting-edge new
music magazine The Wire. But if that makes you expect that the album in
question, "Dopethrone" is some sort of pretentious electronica-leaning,
intellectual-metallic curiosity worthy of much beard-stroking, you'd better
think again! Take a look at the album title, dude! Electric Wizard play
super-heavy sludge metal, taking the appellation "stoner rock" very seriously
indeed. Satan's even seen smoking a bong on the album cover. Doomy sub-Sabbath
riffs, toked-up vocals, spacey fx -- this is primal stuff. This band seems to
just keep getting better and better (meaning, they don't change much!). The
lyrics celebrate their interests in pulp fantasy fiction (HP Lovecraft and RE
Howard both get referenced) and of course the Sweet Leaf: "Dopethrone in this
land of sorcery/Dopethrone vision through T.H.C./Dopethrone feedback will
free/Dopethrone three wizards crowned with weed." No, not brilliant
literature, (and the music's not avant-garde composition for that matter, not
intentionally anyway) but "Dopethrone" is still thoroughly enjoyable even by
those of us (Andee and Allan for example) who aren't potsmokers (in fact,
Andee and Allan are definitely the biggest fans of this record and other
"stoner rock" at Aquarius anyways -- I wonder what that means?!). No, you just
have to like the sheer heaviness and killer-hippie aura ("Legalize Drugs and
Murder" is their slogan, and they're at least half serious)... But if we
*were* ever to decide to take up pot-smoking as a casual hobby, we have
promised several friends (& Electric Wizard fans) that this album will
definitely be the soundtrack to our first "experience". We're tempted.

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