Electric Wizard - Releasing New Album In November, Unveil Cover Art
Electric Wizard - Releasing New Album In November, Unveil Cover Art
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Electric Wizard Source
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Posted by
BloodTears September 11, 2017
"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.
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I wonder if the budget got cut so much on weed and booze that they had to use Liz's torso for the photo since it seems too perfectly frontal to be a screenshot from your usual Franco sleeze. But then again I'm not the Franco master, Jus is.
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They are also in competition with With The Dead for the better upcoming Electric Wizard album. 
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Posts: 477 Written by Alakazam on 12.09.2017 at 01:31 I'd say With the Dead are winning on that front. EW's last album was great, but they are getting repetitive. With the Dead are constantly crushing it with their super heavy sound.
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I preferred the cover art to their other albums -can't say I m knocked out with this but hopefully the music will be better!
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