After announcing last year that they were working on a new album, Electric Wizard have more to tell us now. Wizard Bloody Wizard is the anticipated new LP from the stoner/doom metallers. It contains 43 minutes of cranium crushing sounds and will drop on November 10th. The LP's all analogue recording has been produced by Jus Oborn and Liz Buckingham (guitars) in their own "Satyr IX Recording Studio". Check out the cover below.

"Right away we knew this was it... the new direction we should go in," says Jus Oborn (guitar/vocals). "Real heavy music... really basic heavy rock, blues based but brutal. I think a lot of modern heavy music has disappeared up its own arse... it's too pretentious and technical. We wanted to get back to that primal sound... over amplified blues... Hendrix, Blue Cheer, Zeppelin. They took that music and then turned it up... so we thought let's do the blues in our style. Heavy, heavy super fuckin' blues, total snail-paced funeral boogie for this 21st century hell. I guess it's meant to be hopeless but it's also defiant and unbroken.

"We've been worn out by the modern scene, it's all about styles and genre. We just wanna make solid heavy music... no rules. We didn't set out to record a style or product. We set out to record what we wanted to hear. I want people to know it's Electric Wizard from the first second, but also to know we are gonna take them on a trip. Heavy doesn't just mean tone and bottom end... I think people have become too obsessed by fx and boutique amps. It's more about playing style, attitude and song-writing... y'know, a lot of our songs have been interpreted as acoustic numbers by various people and they are still heavy and ominous sounding... you can't dilute true darkness."

The LP sleeve and art has also been conceived by the band and echoes, again, their love of the macabre, evil and sleazy.

Source:	spinefarmrecords.com
Band profile:	Electric Wizard