★★★★★
The latest effort from England's reigning doom entities Electric Wizard, Time to Die, deserves every accolade thrown its way. The band's lackluster 2010 effort Black Masses fell rather flat, trailing its own hailed predecessor with a rote, lifeless performance. It sounded like the band had gotten cocky, resting comfortably on laurels sprouted after the roaring success of 2007's Witchcult Today, the catchy, menacing genius of which (thanks in no small part to guitarist Liz Buckingham's inspired...
- pitchfork.com
2014-10-01
★★★★★
A trickling waterfall and cawing birds are met with understated, tumbling drums, a '60s church organ and a news report about teenagers involved in a Satanic, drug-fueled murder ritual. Then, with a hellish scream, a martial beat and a phlegmatic down-tuned riff, Electric Wizard immerse us in the doom-laden tones of their eighth full-length, Time to Die. As if to emphasize the point, "Incense" ends with the two-minute vocal mantra and manifesto, "We wanna get high before we die...
- www.wonderingsound.com
2014-09-30
★★★★★
Here's the deal: are one of the heaviest, nastiest doom metal bands of all time. If you've ever listened to an Electric Wizard album before you'll know what you're getting yourself in for. The songs are slow and built around crushingly heavy repeated riffs with lengthy jams. The vocals are distorted often to the point of incomprehensibility. Death and Satan are common themes in the songs and many feature samples from classic horror films, a classic Electric Wizard trope...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2014-09-30
★★★★★
Dorset doom legends Electric Wizard don't mess about. They know what they're good at, and what they like to do, and stick to it without compromise. Their sound (think Black Sabbath playing Sleep or Kyuss at half-speed), though hardly unique, is far fuller and more accomplished than that of many of their contemporaries and imitators. On Time To Die, their first album since 2010's Black Masses, they predictably deliver more of the same - and that's a good thing...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2014-10-01
★★★★★
The bloody noise of Electric Wizard is unrelentingly black. Not to be outdone by US stoner-rock peers Sleep and Earth, who have records out this year, the Dorset satanists have spat out this eighth album. Doom metal needs chaos and angst, so news of acrimonious splits is welcome, if not for former label Rise Above and original drummer Mark Greening (recalled to play on 'Time To Die' and booted out again)...
- www.nme.com
2014-09-29
★★★★★
Sound: As living iterations of the stigmatic "pot-smoking satanic metalheads" and wearing that conceived notion with pride, Electric Wizard quickly became the perfect poster-band for stoner metal throughout their two-decade-long career, even in spite of a colorfully problematic streak of legal troubles and injuries - but if anything, that only further enhanced their anarchistic image in a "talk the talk, walk the walk" kind of way...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2014-10-08
★★★★★
Electric Wizard Time to DieBy Michael RancicLet's just get this out of the way: Time To Die does not hold a candle to Electric Wizard's cult-classic Dopethrone. In the 14 years since that record was released, the band have gone through a bad trip of line-up changes and a variety of variations on doom, having yet to create anything to rival their masterpiece's brilliance...
- exclaim.ca
2014-09-27
★★★★★
Macabre kitsch ... Electric Wizard. Photograph: PR Having spent the past two decades turning the notion of taking things slowly - both musically and in terms of career momentum - into an art form, Electric Wizard will probably regard their recent assimilation into the world of hipster approval as an accidental bonus wrung from their own slithering persistence...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-09-26
★★★★★
Richard 'Ricky' Kasso, aka The Acid King, was seventeen years old when he shot to infamy for the murder of Gary Lauwers in Northport, Long Island in June 1984. Under the influence of powerful hallucinogenic drugs at the time, the murder took place in a reported satanic ritual in the woods ? it was alleged he cut out the victim's eyes. Two days after he was arrested (wearing an AC/DC shirt), Kasso hanged himself in his cell...
- thequietus.com
2014-09-26
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