Dopethrone
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| Studio album by Electric Wizard | ||
| Released | September 25, 2000 | |
| Recorded | Chuckalumba Studios, Dorset, May – June 2000 | |
| Genre | Doom metal | |
| Length | 71:01 | |
| Label | Rise Above Records | |
| Producer(s) | Rolf Startin | |
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| Electric Wizard chronology | ||
| Supercoven (1998) |
Dopethrone (2000) |
Let Us Prey (2002) |
Dopethrone is an album by the doom metal band Electric Wizard. It was released by Rise Above Records originally in 2000, and re-released by the same label in 2004 with an extra track. Production was handled by Rolf Startin. The running time is 71 minutes.
The music of Dopethrone was a departure from the raw, almost garage rock sound of Electric Wizard's preceding EP, Supercoven. Jus Oborn's vocals are heavily manipulated and low in the mix, the guitar sound is a lot fuzzier and a couple of tracks - "Vinum Sabbathi" and "We Hate You" - are under six minutes in length, which is rare for Electric Wizard songs ("The Hills Have Eyes" is under a minute long, but only serves as an interlude). "Mind Transferral" is a bonus track only on the 2004 re-release.
Dopethrone, along with Come My Fanatics..., is often cited as Electric Wizard's seminal release and the highpoint of their career. Reviewers have described it as "some of the absolute slowest, heaviest doom imaginable" [1], and have said "it may well be the finest record to emerge from the whole British stoner-rock scene" [2].
The soundbyte in the beginning of "Barbarian" is taken from the scene in Conan the Barbarian where Conan is holding Valeria as she is dying.
[edit] Track listing
All lyrics by Jus Oborn. All music by Electric Wizard.
- "Vinium Sabbathi" – 3:06
- "Funeralopolis" – 8:43
- "Weird Tales" – 15:04
- I. "Electric Frost"
- II. "Golgotha"
- III. "Altar of Melektaus"
- "Barbarian" – 6:29
- "I, The Witchfinder" – 11:04
- "The Hills Have Eyes" – 0:46
- "We Hate You" – 5:08
- "Dopethrone" – 20:48 (10:35 on versions featuring the song "Mind Transferral")
- "Mind Transferral" – 14:54 (re-release only)
[edit] Personnel
- Jus Oborn - vocals, guitar
- Tim Bagshaw - bass guitar
- Mark Greening - drums
