Pilgrim Misery Wizard Poison Tongue/Metal Blade 14 February 2012 by Tom Dare While music obviously needs bands capable of doing radically new, different things, it also needs bands that refine existing styles and add their own voice. Pilgrim fall into the latter category – they're not going to spawn an entire new sound, but they are going to deafen, hypnotise and bewitch you in short order. [...]
Frying saxophone solos! Synthesizers recreating lost sunny days! Nihilistically lewd mixtapes inspiring dozens of new entries on Urban Dictionary! Tricked-out dubstep for American mall rats! The musical trends that defined much of 20112s critically-lauded output were roundly ignored by my favorite records of the year. The best albums of the year invented their own one-band microgenres. EMA gave us California confessional poetry, while WU LYF reinvented protest punk for a generation without a cause. Wolves in the Throne Room continued to hone their environmental black metal. Das Racist refined their postmodern identity joke rap. Peaking Lights invented Midwestern dub, and [...]
British doom metal legends Electric Wizard has announced that they have begun writing new material for what will become the band's next album, their first since last year's, "Black Masses." In a statement on their official Facebook page, the band said: "Electric Wizard have begun work on the follow-up to last years evil opus 'Black Masses.' Mate... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
Some bands are almost essential to their respective genres. If one likes thrash metal, there's a better chance than not that the same person will be an Exodus fan. If one likes grindcore, it's extremely likely they will also be a fan of Napalm Death and if one is a fan of doom metal, it's safe to say that Electric Wizard is somewhere in their CD co... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
Seminal industrial band Godflesh have only played a handful of shows since reuniting in 2009, none of them in America. But all that changes in 2012, as the promoters of the Maryland Deathfest have announce the blockbuster booking of this band for next year's festival, which happens during Memorial Day weekend. Things will get extra ...
ELECTRIC WIZARD (UK) will be making an exclusive U.S. appearance at Maryland Deathfest X. Also newly confirmed for the festival, slated to take place May 24-27, 2012, are CONFESSOR, HAEMORRHAGE (Spain), and OCTOBER 31. The confirmed bands so far are: MORBID ANGEL ELECTRIC WIZARD (UK) SAINT VITUS ANVIL (Canada) MORGOTH (Germany) SUFFOCATION... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
Roskilde - One of Europe's largest music festivals, the Roskilde Festival is also one of it's most diverse, featuring everything from traditional African music to old school death metal. While it is perhaps most notorious for the deaths of nine fans during a 2000 Pearl Jam performance, it is probably better known amongst the people of Denmark and Europeans in general as having a solid lineup of music over it's four days. While this festival was originally my consolation prize for not getting tickets to the sold out Glastonbury Festival, it turned out to be just as impressive [...]
ELECTRIC WIZARD - Live Pt. 1 Nouveau Casino, Paris (29/10/'10) (by ShinjuGumi )
The British do seem to have a reputation for eccentricity, or maybe that should be eclecticism and now we have a band worthy of the reputation… Crumbling Ghost . Hoist up your britches and prepare to dance round their blackened maypole of doom!!! Claiming influence as much from Martin Carthy and Pentangle as from Sleep and Electric Wizard it would be all too easy to read this and dismiss them as a folk tinged doom outfit. Nothing could be further from the truth as Crumbling Ghosts music also [...]
As you probably know by now, Jucifer live on the road - literally! A truly mobile unit, the savage sludge metal duo are North American nomads who rest their head nightly in the same RV that gets them from show to show. So I was surprised to learn that Jucifer were crossing the pond for [...]
Di commenti al concerto del Mago Elettrico allo Spazio 211 di Torino se cercate ne trovate in giro diversi. Molti però non hanno messo in risalto una cosa: LO SPAZIO 211 HA UN'ORGANIZZAZIONE DI MERDA Non si potrebbe chiamare altrimenti gente che fa aspettare un pubblico pagante botte di mezz'ora sotto la pioggia scrosciante, che fa entrare con il contagocce perchè non ha una biglietteria adeguata, che non è ben organizzata per far entrare tutto il pubblico fuori prima che il set della band principale inizi. [...]
Sabato 12 Marzo, Electric Wizard + Fuh - Spazio 211 - Torino. Poster di Steuso, un grandissimo come sempre.
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Admittedly, No Genre hasn't spend much time (read: any time) with a metal album since its (the blog's) inception. Part of it is because I just haven't consumed much metal since high school. Of course, I've stayed current with the requisite Mastodon, a bit of Baroness, and the possibly un-metal Earth and Sunn O))). Part of it, though, is that a lot of metal criticism is extremely territorial about genre designations and needlessly fierce about questions of authenticity. And I'm just so generally allergic to this kind of criticism that I just bypass the whole scene. Anyway, a number of [...]
Ghost's Opus Eponymous, out this week on the CD format in the U.S., has garnered quite a bit of praise and has even drawn the ire of Sarah Palin. New releases from Ghost (in the U.S.), Electric Wizard and Acid Witch make this week a great one for fans of psychadelic, doom, stoner and the like, [...]
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Electric Wizard's Black Mass came out in Europe last year - in fact, MetalSucks' own King of Reviewers, Sammy O'Hagar, has already reviewed the album and included it on his 2010 year end list - but most North Americans won't have access (or, at least, legal access) to it 'til January 18, when Metal Blade [...]
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