Electric_Wizard-Let_Us_Prey-(Remastered)-2006-QK

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Release Info:

Artist      : Electric Wizard
Album       : Let Us Prey
Genre       : Metal
Date        : 06-20-2006
Year        : 2006
Encoder     : Lame 3.90
Quality     : VBRkbps - 44,1kHz - Joint-Stereo
Tracks      : 07
Playtime    : 49:49 min
Label       : Rise Above
Size        : 82,5 MB
Source      : CDDA

Tracklist:

01) A Chosen Few                                               [06:34]
02) We, The Undead                                             [04:29]
03) Master Of Alchemy I.House Of Whipcord II.The Black Drug    [09:23]
04) The Outsider                                               [09:19]
05) Night Of The Shape                                         [04:03]
06) Priestess Of Mars                                          [10:05]
07) Mother Of Serpents (Bonus Track)                           [05:56]
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                                                              49:49 min
                                                               82,5 MB

Release Notes:

Originally released way back in 2002, now re-issued with expanded artwork, new
liner notes, tons of photos, and most importantly a 6 minute bonus track,
"Mother Of Serpents"!!! Here's what we had to say when this first came out:
AQ-faves Electric Wizard return with the eagerly anticipated "Let Us Prey".
After their totally wrecked, wretched performance here in San Francisco last
year (which we still enjoyed, but as comedy), this excellent, totally
competent new album can only beg the question: did they bring session
musicians in to do this stuff, or what? I mean, the drummer is able to find
his drumkit, the guitar solos include the correct notes, someone's even
playing piano, how can this be the same band we saw? They must have recorded
it during during a rare binge of not taking drugs and alcohol! (Horrors!) Of
course, we already knew they had it in 'em, since their previous studio effort
"Dopethrone" was so perfect. This doesn't surpass that album, but how could
it? But it does explore some new directions while mainly providing more of
what you want, and thus is certainly a worthy follow-up, recommended to all
fans of stoner/doom metal. Doom metal doesn't have to be stoner rock, and
stoner rock isn't always (or even often) doom metal, but the combination is
natural -- and for that nobody beats the Wiz. Electric Wizard's spacey,
metallic drug-punk (a mixture of Sabbath, Hawkwind, and Melvins) features
lost, buried, hopeless vocals singing dirgey hymns to the God-Bong amidst
bowel-rumbling, super-heavy, super-sludgey guitar and bass psychedelia. What's
not to like?
This is the kind of album that lends itself to a track-by-track rundown (why?
'cause there's only six songs):
The disc starts with a classically slow n' massive Wizard song entitled "A
Chosen Few", designed to bludgeon the listener into stuporific submission from
riff one.
"We, The Undead" changes tactics, being fast and kinda punky (in an
Eyehategod/Black Flag way), with a riff that's *very* Saint Vitus.
"Master Of Alchemy" is another slow crusher a la the first track, with a truly
EVIL sounding main riff. This song is a relentless juggernaut that eventually
morphs (it's a two-part suite nearly ten minutes long) into a mellower, but
still quite EVIL, psychedelic drone jam.
"The Outsider" is, if possible, even lower, slower, and more drugged-out
sounding, building into a wah wah propelled epic before its nine minutes are
out.
Then, out of nowhere, the beautiful, melancholy "Night Of The Shape" (great
title) kicks in -- noirish piano figures over busy, shuffling drumbeats that
sound almost drum 'n' bass inspired. This could be on a Radiohead record, yet
somehow it's totally doomy.
After that lovey interlude, the Wizard get back to their usual business on the
epic album closer "Priestess Of Mars". More sludge, more wah, more pot smoke.
And then, three quarters of an hour after you put it on, "Let Us Prey" is over
and you'll need another fix!

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