review by: Roberto Martinelli

Listening to Dopethrone is like being dragged through thick sludge in space. On this, their latest album, Electric Wizard have stuck to their formula and produced another piece of numbingly heavy stoner doom with ample psychadelia.

Compared to their last release, the double CD Come My Fanatics…, Dopethrone's riffs and lyrics are less blatantly ripped off from old Black Sabbath, but at the same time are less catchy. This album concentrates more on being mind-altering sound rather than a collection of songs to listen to.

While this three-man English band have always been about mixing wandering psychadelia in with their blues-influenced drone, Dopethrone sees Electric Wizard take this to a higher level, with even longer other-wordly musical forays that stretch into the 20-minute mark. While the split with Orange Goblin featured the 20-minute track "Chrono.naut," that piece had more of a jam session feel, while the songs on Dopethrone have more of an ambient one. Overall, I like Come My Fanatics… more, but I believe that you'll definitely be happy with Dopethrone if you dug that one.