STUDIO ALBUM BY ELECTRIC WIZARD

Year Released: 2017

Wizard Bloody Wizard is the ninth studio album by English stoner/doom metal band Electric Wizard, released on 17 November 2017, three years after their previous album Time to Die. Recording took place from April 2016 to February 2017 at the Satyr IX Recording Studios with production duties on the album shared between lead singer Jus Oborn and guitarist Liz Buckingham. Though some music critics noted an overall change in the band's sound from their usual doom formula towards a slightly more hard rock approach, the album received generally favourable reviews. With a running time of 43 minutes and consisting of only six songs, Wizard Bloody Wizard is the band's shortest studio album to date.

Credit for the album cover photography is given to guitarist Liz Buckingham with A. Bastlanello given modelling credit. Echoing the band's fondness for the macabre, Blabbermouth described the cover as "A sick and twisted bad taste eye-assault that aims to titillate, excite and repulse you." While there are none of the familiar horror movie sound bites between songs as previously employed by the band on past albums, Oborn cited horror movies such as The Last House On The Left as inspiration for the album's cover art, stating:

"It's a homage to some exploitation movies... but not very nice ones, to be honest, ha ha ha! We like to push people's buttons if we can. Sex and violence are our basest instincts, I guess we think that engaging the brain and guts on this most basic, primal level is the fastest way to grab people's emotions… It's 'shock' tactics, but the world is so fuckin' brainwashed or bored that they need to be 'woken up'. The 'man' is slowly neutering and killing us with technology and lies… It's time to fight back."

— (Jus Oborn)

TRACK-LIST:

Side A:

1. See You In Hell
2. Necromania
3. Hear The Sirens Scream

Side B:

1. The Reaper
2. Wicked Caresses
3. Mourning Of The Magicians