ELECTRIC WIZARD 'DOPETHRONE' 2LP

LABEL: Rise Above Limited
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 2/24/2023
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2000
VARIANT: Black Vinyl 2LP

Dopethrone's album cover alone is legendary — an uber-kvlt black-and-white illustration of ol' Lucifer himself taking a mighty pull from a demonic bong. But Electric Wizard summoned an even more vivid devil in audio form with their feedback-soaked, swamp-pit-dredging hate-dirges. Steeped in drug addiction and alcoholism, the bandmates camped out in the studio, got loaded and jammed themselves into oblivion. "We just wanted to make the most disgusting, foul, putrid record that anyone has ever recorded," singer/guitarist Jus Osborn told Kerrang! in 2009. Bravo.