Stoner/doom metal heavyweights Electric Wizard have finally completed work on its new studio album, whose title is yet to be confirmed. The effort will be the band's first release through Spinefarm Records and follows 2010's Black Masses. Let the anticipation begin...

Electric Wizard have thus far released seven studio albums with both Come My Fanatics (1997) and Dopethrone (2000) being lauded as landmark releases.

There is now the return of Mark Greening (the drummer on Dopethrone), who completes the line-up of Oborn, US guitarist Liz Buckingham, a key member since 2003, and new bassist Clayton Burgess (Satan's Satyrs).

Toerag Studios in London was once again charged with capturing 'The Sound', and words like "raw", "hateful" and "sickeningly heavy" are being traded.

Says Oborn: "Our master plan is this. Real metal! We stand for rebellion, we are with the kids; we fight, puke, smoke weed, etc... Electric Wizard is an entity, with its own history, its own symbols, its own iconography, and with this new album, we wanted to return to basic values. It's primitive. We needed to claw it back down to the evil core - sex, drugs, violence, revolution... to go back to being a band that hung out and jammed hard. No teaching songs, just feeling them out. If you jam enough and you are on the same level - artistically, musically, whatever, you gotta be committed - then good music will happen. I totally believe that..."

Electric Wizard will make the following festival appearances in 2014, with more shows to be added:

May 2nd - Temples Festival, Bristol, UK (headline)
June 20th - Hellfest, Clisson, France (Valley Stage headline)
July 3rd - Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark (Arena Stage)
July 4th - Sonisphere, Knebworth Park, UK (stage headline)
August 16th - Jabberwocky, The Excel Centre, London, UK
September 12th - Reverence Valada, Portugal (headline with Hawkwind)

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