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2010 album from the British Doom Metal band. Still the heaviest band on the planet, this time around there is a stronger emphasis on song structure and musicianship than on previous outings. Black Masses is an encyclopedia referencing the history o Heavy Metal from the Kinks to right through to Bathory, thematically governed by occult knowledge passed down from their ancestors. A trip through every aspect of everything that's cool about underground drug-rock from the head-spinning Satanic Psychedelia of 'Patterns Of Evil' through to the NWOBHM on LSD churning of 'Turn Off Your Mind', Black Masses is the album Electric Wizard always threatened to make. It's here, and listening to the end of the world was never meant to sound this good.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Back To The Sabbath of Savage Doom, Nov 9 2010
By S. Bailey - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Black Masses (Audio CD)
This isn't Dopethrone,this isn't Come My Fanatics....it's something more intune with the late 60's...early 70's vibe. All the heavy sludge of graves and occult insanity is here..just more under produced. I mean this in a good way...The album starts off a bit on a faster note than you would expect. With a full blown devil chorus.. Black Mass..Black Mass...almost like a mantra of evil fury. Im not gonna go into all the songs, too much work..LOL. But the record(ya I called it a record)is all about demonic dynamics and dirty garage sounding satanism. I tell you the one thing that seems really a change for these guys is the vocals. Guess you noticed how much more up front the vocals were tracked on Witchcult Today. Well its even more so here. I might even say his vocals sound dark and cool. Still in the shadows on a few songs but he must have gained some balls,'cause I really dig what hes doing here. Don't worry,half the time you're be scratching your head at what he's singing,it just seems Oborn has found his vocal muse....(By way of Crowley and bad horror flicks..)The whole massive,stoned out disc was recorded 100% anaologue. It does sound really muddy..like walls of sound that drip off the ceilings of LSD freaks. This is one strange album. Remember that Black Sabbath made 4 really heavy,doomy albums then switched gears with Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Still heavy but oddly different. Trust me if you like Electric Wizard you will foam at your mouth over this cd. Fall into the doom and the tragic...just slightly modified...Hail the Wizard!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Retro doom and nasty attitudes, Mar 14 2011
By Scott Hedegard "Scott" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Black Masses (Audio CD)
Electric Wizard bring up the question, which has no real answer, who is the heaviest band ever? Well, kiddies, anybody who thinks Electric Wizard is must be too young to remember Black Sabbath or the first generation of doom merchants like St. Vitus or Celtic Frost. Not that "Black Masses" isn't heavy - it'll give your eardrums a hernia for sure, but this album's charm is its loving care of all things doom, never forgetting his Blackness Tony Iommi, the true Godfather of all things metal, at least in the guitar department.You have to be old enough to understand that at one time, as opposed to being a classic band that is used for movies and commercials nowadays, "Iron Man" especially, in the early years Black Sabbath were as evil and scary as it got. Only the most daring of us in high school would venture into that world, and you can bet in the Bible Belt where I grew up, the very name of Black Sabbath would make preachers foam at the mouth. The cover of "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath" was scandalous. Even amongst us rockers, we felt a little apprehension when we first popped Sabbath into the eight track (yes, I'm that old), but the dark powers overcame us and we became fans, especially, I remember, the ghostly feedback and thump of "Children Of The Grave", which was about as wicked as it got, as far as we were concerned.
Now, that's all camp. Electric Wizard echo the sickest bends Iommi produced, and make fine doom metal, the kind that makes you want to fire up a doobie thirty or so years after you quit. It's stoner heaven, or hell, if you prefer, with riffs as big as landslides and about as fast. It's a good release and somewhat refreshing in the face of all the metalcore screaming going on. But is it the heaviest music on the planet? Hardly. You'd have to erase the impact of Black Sabbath's early albums to make that happen. Plus, High On Fire and Celtic Frost/Triptycon fans will have something to say about it. Still, smoke 'em if you got 'em and fire up the old VW van. Electric Wizard rocks.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Black Masses, Feb 28 2011
By Eileen Byrom - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Black Masses (Audio CD)
I believe this is their best album to date. One review said there is nothing new on this album, that's bull****. They have evolved so much since the critically acclaimed "Come My Fanatics" and "Dopethrone" days that they almost sound like a new band. Actually they pretty much are a new band, as guitarist/vocalist Jus Oborn is the only member left from those days. I've found the riffs on this album are much more memorable and the vocals are more prominent. Oborn also delivers some vocal melodies that you would not expect to hear while listening to the Wizard, notably in "Venus in Furs".Another thing that stood out to me is how catchy some of the songs can be. You can actually sing along to some of these choruses and that is something you won't find on their older albums. Older fans may not appreciate this but people into old school doom bands like Black Sabbath, Pentagram and Witchfinder General are the ones who will dig this album the most.
To sum it up, this is their darkest and most memorable album yet.
P.S. This is not Eileen Byrom, I'm just using her account
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