Dopethrone

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Released 25 September 2000 Dopethrone (2000) Let Us Prey (2002) Release date 25 September 2000		Producer Rolf Startin Artist Electric Wizard Label The Music Cartel

Recorded May–June 2000 at Chuckalumba Studios in Dorset, England Length 71:09 (76:12 for 2004 and 2007 re-release) Genres Doom metal, Stoner rock, Sludge metal Similar Electric Wizard albums, Stoner rock albums

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Dopethrone is the third studio album by English doom metal band Electric Wizard. It was released in 2000 through Rise Above Records and re-released by the same label in 2004 and 2007 with an extra song.

Dopethrone, along with Come My Fanatics..., is often cited as Electric Wizard's seminal release and the highpoint of their career. Reviewers have described it as "some of the absolute slowest, heaviest doom imaginable" and have said "it may well be the finest record to emerge from the whole British stoner-rock scene". Speaking to Kerrang! in July 2009, Jus Oborn remembered: "Most of us were stuck in some drug addiction or alcoholism at the time, and it was just pure hate. It was us against the world, and we just wanted to make the most disgusting, foul, putrid record that anyone has ever recorded. We camped out at the studio, so it was literally just wake up, consume as much fucking drugs as possible, and then just start jamming."

On this album, Electric Wizard's very slow, heavy and psychedelic sound became more abrasive and aggressive. Jus Oborn's vocals are heavily manipulated and low in the mix and the guitars are extremely fuzzy.

Dopethrone was crowned "Album of the Decade" (2000s) by Terrorizer magazine.

The song "Vinum Sabbathi" appears in the documentary "The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia"

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Track listing

All tracks written by Jus Oborn/Tim Bagshaw.

Silence and sound-clips

Silence

"Dopethrone" ends at 10:26 (on both issues) and is followed by silence; to the end of the track on the reissue and until 19:52 on the original. On the original, the ending features a 55 sec. sound clip from 20/20 in which two adults can be heard talking about whether or not a parent should take action if their child is being negatively influenced by heavy metal music by becoming depressed and joining satanic cults. The reissue negates the sound-clip from "Dopethrone" and has it end in only 30 seconds of silence and moves on to the bonus track which, in this essence, makes it a hidden track. Now the band had decided to move the sound clip to the end of the bonus track "Mind Transferal" which ends at 9:36 followed by silence until 14:00 where the sound-clip is now placed and leads to the end of the album. On the vinyl versions of Dopethrone the soundclip comes immediately after "Mind Transferral" ends.

Sound-clips

"Vinum Sabbathi," "Mind Transferral," and "Dopethrone" contain sound clips from the 16 May 1985 episode of 20/20, discussing Satanism.

"Barbarian" contains a sound clip from a scene in the film Conan the Barbarian.

"I, The Witchfinder" and "Dopethrone" contain sound clips from the film Mark of the Devil.

"We Hate You" contains sound clips from the film The Dunwich Horror.

"Dopethrone" contains a sound clip from the film The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film).

Personnel

Jus Oborn – guitar, vocals, effects

Tim Bagshaw – bass, effects

Mark Greening – drums

All writing – Jus Oborn/Tim Bagshaw

All arrangements – Electric Wizard

Produced and Engineered by Rolf Startin

Artwork – Hugh Gilmour, Tim Bagshaw and Jus Oborn

Covers

The American doom metal band Akem Manah released 2 versions of the song "Funeralopolis". A demo jam version on their 2011 EP Horror in the Eyes and an official version on their 2012 full-length album Night of the Black Moon.

Songs

1Vinum Sabbathi3:06
2Funeralopolis8:43
3Weird Tales: I Electric Frost - II Golgotha - III Altar of Melektaus15:05

References

Dopethrone Wikipedia

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