Electric Wizard - (1996) - Return Trip

Artist: Electric Wizard
Album: Come My Fanatics...
Release Date: 1996
Label: Candlelight Records

Electric Wizard, a heavy-metal band formed in Britain by singer and guitarist Justin Osborn (ex-Eternal) in 1993, quickly established itself as one of the most versatile and eclectic stoner acts of the decade. Come My Fanatics (Rise Above, january 1997), containing six lengthy pieces, was even more powerful (even heavier, duller, darker and more sluggish), a tidal wave of gloomy sounds. Whereas the songs of the first album contented themselves with mimicking the classics, Return Trip (10:03) managed to build an apocalyptic atmosphere out of sheer repetition with increasingly claustrophobic variations, as if heavy metal had wed Steve Reich's minimalism. An elegant balance of droning and riffing (and chanting) is achieved in Doom-Mantia (8:49). The band's sound spills over into electronic and abstract territory in two pieces. Ivixor B/Phase Inducer (8:48) borrows an idea from the Sisters Of Mercy and delves into a gothic-psychedelic atmosphere of sparse noises. The instrumental Solarian 13 (8:00) sounds like a loop of intricate guitar patterns over a steady beat that is visited by intergalactic spaceships.

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• Electric
• Wizard
• rasalinga
• Heavy
• Metal
• Stoner
• Trip
• Hypnotic
• Dark
• Hash

[Loaman123]

hail the wizard form chile

[PistolGripPump12ga]

This has got to be their heaviest song.

[autopsy87]

noone in the picture was in electric wizard at the time this song was made. just kinda funny. great song to listen to if you work with the public like i do. the second verse says it all.

[spacefreak48]

Chopper bikes, booze, spliffs 'n' speed.

Living backwards

Crawling underground

Forever united in sludge!

[toecutterr6]

the sun melts