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Rating: Faithful to the spirit that enlivened the early period of the undisputed masters Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard today stand among the best examples of modern psychedelic doom, continuing the path laid by the late Sleep (now High on Fire and The Sabians) and even earlier by the cult bands of the eighties, Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Trouble, Pentagram.
The sonic blend of doom metal and psychedelia with seventies digressions, has perfectly coalesced over the years, let us prey perhaps represents the definitive fusion of these elements and leads—accompanied by literary references with horror writer H.P Lovecraft—towards truly unsettling realities.
The horrific shroud that darkens and pervades with hyper-distorted cacophony this embrace of alien psychedelia, establishes already with a chosen few the insurmountable heaviness of the riffs that in their obsessive repetition produce scenarios of submerged reality. The voice is almost marginal and many times confused with the sound of a distortion, which vomits the sludge’n’roll of we, the undead and returns to being an agonizing lament in the subsequent master of alchemy, a chilling sonic hallucination that expands boundlessly among the thousand explosions of space-rock effects.
The narcotic atmosphere does not subside and the "black magick trip" continues in the unpredictable cosmic explosions of the outsider, a tribute to the solitary of Providence, a pagan rite of irreducible primordial strength, broken by acid guitar embellishments that grow in intensity in the delirious roar of the wah-wah. Night of the shape is the tribute to a 70s horror movie, and reserves an unusual combination of piano and violin supported by an endless drum solo, finally priestess of mars evokes imaginaries of extraterrestrial incursion, as if Black Sabbath were playing in a hypothetical jam-session with the Pink Floyd of interstellar overdrive.
Ultimately, a hefty piece of cosmic doom to digest, for strong palates, to which I also recommend the previous Dopethrone and the fabulous Ep Supercoven.
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