The Artist/Album: Electric Wizard, Black Masses (Rise Above, 2010)
A Short Review: Campy cover art and B-movie song titles (“Scorpio Curse,” “Crypt of Drugula,” “Patterns of Evil”) aside, Electric Wizard’s seventh album goes great lengths to retain the group’s “heaviest band in the universe” title. Succumb to its spell and you will be rewarded with a record that’d make even Ian MacKaye feel stoned.
Our intern’s name is Ezra Teboul. He was born in Bordeaux, goes to school in Massachusetts, and thinks Dopethrone is the greatest album of all time. Dude’s an enigma, in other words. With that in mind, we recently asked Ezra to interview the grand sorcerer himself, Electric Wizard frontman Jus Oborn. The only problem? His tape recorder kept cutting out. Goddamn interns.
Expect to hear more from Ezra in the coming months, as we let his wide-eyed views of the world counteract our unwavering cynicism. And now, his first self-titled profile…
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[Photo by J Hubbard]
For more on Tombs, head here. Otherwise, here are the year-end thoughts of one of self-titled‘s favorite metal bands, starting with a page torn from our new magazine issue…
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