Electric Wizard took doom metal's volume and tempo to their most punishing extremes. Jus Oborn's downtuned, feedback-drenched guitar and lyrical obsessions with horror films, Lovecraft, and drug-fueled oblivion created the heaviest band in a genre already defined by heaviness.
Dopethrone is their masterpiece, an album so crushingly heavy it makes Black Sabbath sound like a pop band.
Key Albums
2000Dopethrone
The heaviest album ever recorded. Forty minutes of suffocating, psychedelic doom.
1997Come My Fanatics...
Where the formula crystallized: slow, low, and devastating.
2007Witchcult Today
More focused and slightly more accessible, while still crushingly heavy.
Why They Matter
Electric Wizard defined the extreme end of doom metal: the point where heaviness becomes a physical experience rather than merely a musical one.
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