UK cult legends Electric Wizard have today shared their long-anticipated ninth studio album ‘Wizard Bloody Wizard’ via Spinefarm / Caroline Australia. In 43 brain-damaging minutes, the band delivers a varied, challenging, breath-taking new LP, from crushing blues stomp through savage Detroit sleaze-rock, paranoiac passages of droning drug rock, and creepy funereal proto-metal/acid-rock. This is heavy shit, baby!
Rising above convention and genre, Electric Wizard have constructed their own vision of classic heavy rock – a sound harking back to the dreaded days when ‘heavy’ meant Grand Funk and Black Sabbath, and ‘rock’ meant drugs, groupies and mountains of amplification. This is 21st Century Blues, dragged back from the grave. ‘Wizard Bloody Wizard’ is full of cranium-crushing bludgeon rock and, like the band’s beloved vintage horror/exploitation movies, definitely not for those of a nervous disposition.
Even though the LP promises ‘hymns to death, drugs, sex and violence’, the overall vibe is a band that is revitalised and ready to kill. The sound is aggressive, stripped back and savage, as if the new line-up has main-lined a fresh level of attitude and ability.
“Y’know, a lot of bad shit has happened to us, but through it all there was the music,” says Osborn, “We still dig loud heavy music, and the album is not really depressed or angry, it’s arrogant and rebellious. I still believe in rock and roll, and I still believe in killing it onstage and mentally destroying an audience.”
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