After being asked to include some "newer stuff" or "maybe something by Electric Wizard" i'll gladly fulfil this request....the fact that this album delivers the flair of raw, unpolished 70ies-recordings, although recorded not even two years ago, makes it an worthy addition anyway.
What can be written about this band?....well, maybe that they are one of the heaviest bands you are ever going to hear, that they are a band with an unique sound that was often copied but never surpassed (not even remotely!) or that almost everything they ever recorded could be tagged with the label "masterpiece"...
You see, Electric Wizard is definitely not an average doom-band and no one will disagree when i'm saying that they have been one of the top-acts of this genre for almost fifteen years now.
Three years passed since the release of "We Live" until the eagerly expected "Witchcult Today" hit the stores in 2009 but it was well worth the wait. Despite it's sheer doomish-heavyness this album sounds like it is straight out of the 70ies....an all analogue recording of pure beauty.
The whole album sounds like the recorded-manifesto of some kind of strange drugged up witchcult: The occult-element has always been an essential part of the Electric Wizard-sound, but it has never been that coherent and convincing.
Maybe the most important thing to be said about this release:
Jus Oborn's and Liz Buckingham's riffs crush anyone and everything...
The typical Lovecraft-references can be found as well....there even is a track called Dunwich
Interesting fact: The cover-artwork is an adaption of the movie-posters that were used to promote the classic Hammer-Horror flick "The Devil Rides Out".
Here the other tracks:
Witchcult Today
The Chosen Few
Satanic Rites Of Drugula
Torquemada 71
Raptus
Saturnine
Black Magic Rituals And Perversions
Get this if you can!
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