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There are bands (e.g., Black Sabbath) that manage to create slow songs that are very beautiful and interesting, enticing you to listen to them again even after years. This is not the case with Electric Wizard; here there are only endless and repetitive riffs, practically no musical progression, the same riff over and over again, and these riffs have been played a thousand times and played better. Generic vocals that are unbearably whiny and lacking in expressiveness, and they bore me in a way that... It just seems like the band is always on autopilot, it becomes so boring that I can't listen to this album for more than 10 minutes without turning off the stereo. It's boredom that I exactly feel when I listen to this album.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
01 Vinum Sabbathi (03:06)
Extracted essence of the stones
Narcotic of the faceless ones
I awake on planet black
Freezing moon, no turnin back
Forbidden sorcery
Vinum sabbathi
Now i'm a slave to the black drug
Forced to serve this black god
I thought myself a master of the arts
This dimension of misery is my penance
Forbidden sorcery
Vinum sabbathi
(repeat to the end)
04 Barbarian (06:29)
[sample: "The wizard..."]
He left the northern hills to seek his fortune
A lone barbarian with only death lust to guide
He carved a kingdom of stone
King Conan, sitting on his bloody throne
His black mane sweeps across his face
Grim and silent with a steely blue gaze
Like a panther ready to strike
His blade crashes down to end your life
Conan rules with an iron fist
Many people, they look up to him
??
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
Master swordsman of Hyborian Age
His name is legend to this very day
Even gods cower when his sword is unleashed
Nothing dare face him, neither man or beast
Cut a bloody swathe across this battlefield
Red mist rising, break your human shield
Slashed to pieces is to be your fate
Unleash berserker rage none shall escape
Conan rules with an iron fist
Many people, they look up to him
??
You think you're civilized, but you'll never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You think you're civilized, but you will never understand
You'll never understand
05 I, the Witchfinder (11:03)
I am Albino, evil witchfinder
I'll cleanse her sins,
For witchcraft I condomn her
My implements of torture are bloody red
Your confession to sorcery will leave you dead
I am Albino, evil witchfinder
I know she's guilty before I find her
I'll pierce her flesh to find this mark
Torture, my pleasure, true servant of the dark
I... The Witchfinder (repeat very often)
07 We Hate You (05:08)
A seed of hate from the day I was born
My right to vengeance from me has been torn
Hopeless and drugged - my black emotions seethe
Loveless and cold - my hate begins to breed.
Black nebula, seething in my brain
Then your fucking world brings me down again
So i'll take my fathers gun and i walk down to the street
I'll have my vengeance now with everyone I meet, yeah!
A seed of hate from the day I was born
My right to vengeance from me has been torn
Hopeless and drugged - my black emotions seethe
Loveless and cold - my hate begins to breed.
We... hate you! (repeat to the end)
08 Dopethrone (20:48)
Dope priest prophecy
Doomantra from beneath the sea
Green throne, raised to the black sun
Doom child, wake to planet song
Rise, black amps tear the sky
Feedback will free your mind and set you free
Rise, black amps tear the sky
Riff hewn altar wreathed in smoke and weed
Dopethrone, in this land of sorcery
Dopethrone, vision through T.H.C.
Dopethrone, feedback will free
Dopethrone, three wizards crowned with weed, yeah
Black monolith charged with unlight
Sacrifice to forever midnight
Towers, titan sonic wave
Sorcery, necromantic slaves
Rise, black amps tear the sky
Feedback will free your mind and set you free
Rise, black amps tear the sky
Riff hewn altar wreathed in smoke and weed, yeah
Dopethrone, in this land of sorcery
Dopethrone, vision through T.H.C., yeah
Dopethrone, feedback will free, yeah
Dopethrone, three wizards crowned with weed, yeah
In this land of sorcery
Vision through T.H.C.
Holy feedback, it will free
Three wizards crowned with weed
Rise
Rise
Rise
Rise
Rise
Rise
Rise
Rise
Smoke
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By Rocky
Their music is a morbid mantra of black magic, a kind of dark and suffocating psychedelia.
Dopethrone rises from hell to transform into a malevolent anthem to soft drugs and affirm the immense power of the electric wizard.
By Moonchild
Electric Wizard is fine, I leave it, I watch Gazz, he hears the music and relives it in his state.
A few kilometers left and he feels he’ll soon be home, happiness is visible on his round face.
By Wallego
"Dopethrone by Electric Wizard is an album from 2000, considered a huge pillar of the slower and darker genres of Metal."
"After having listened to this masterpiece, everything seemed stranger to me... this album truly has something that few albums have."
