ELECTRIC WIZARD

Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: ENG
Style: heavy psychedelic sludge doom metal

absolutely colossal second longplay effort [1997] by essential doom mastodons comes quite unexpectedly: while somewhat less immediate than its predecessor, it ups the sonic ante through a wall of sludge so thick that even the most experienced of metalheads could not help but be overwhelmed by its tectonic music power - six oppressing tracks on this insanely heavy and morbid output crush like a monster avalanche of amp distortion, detuned riffs and billows of marijuana smoke, while remaining highly atmospheric at the same time, so it eventually feels like an adventure gone horribly wrong, with Return Trip standing out as a stoner doom anthem of sorts; recent British gatefold sleeve double coloured vinyl edition