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In 2006, Shaun Rutter filled in the drummer’s position and about a year later Witchcult Today” was released, recorded solely with 70’s gear, so as to present a more vintage sound. The new roster released the album “We Live” and toured Australia in October and November 2005. In addition, guitarist (and later Jus Oborn’s wife) Elizabeth Buckingham joined the band, who had meanwhile moved to the United States. In 2003, drummer Justin Greaves replaced Mark Greening while Rob Al-Issa was recruited to play the bass. Nonetheless, Electric Wizard continued touring with Cathedral in November 2002 in Great Britain. The album titled “Let Us Prey” was released on Maand the band announced that the concert at Philadelphia’s “Khyber Pass” would be its last. The recording of their fourth album was delayed due to Mark Greening’s bicycle accident, as well as Jus Oborn’s alcohol poisoning and hospital admittance. In order to realize the great importance of such albums, one just has to look at how many bands have spawned ever since named after the album’s tracks (Dopethrone, Son of Nothing, Vinnum Sabbathi, etc.).
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The “Dopethrone” album of 2000 received monumental appraisal, considered to be one of the most important albums of the genre.
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After that, EP “Supercoven” followed (released only in limited edition and through postal order), as well as another split with (who else?) Orange Goblin. No words can describe this record’s musical value. In July 1996, “Come My Fanatics …” is being recorded at “Red Dog Studios” and then released early in 1997 (with an extra track in its Japanese version, “Return To The Sun Of Nothingness”). Heavily influenced by Black Sabbath and Cathedral (they even designed their album cover with Cathedral’s exclusive art director, Dave Patchett), the album is a killer and is just the first of many epic releases that have helped the band be considered as one of the greatest doom metal groups of all time. The year is 1995 and Electric Wizard make their first appearance through a split with Our Haunted Kingdom, (you may wonder who they are let me tell you that they were renamed to Orange Goblin a few years later…) through Rise Above Records, which in the same year also releases the band’s self-titled debut. However, Gavin Gillingham’s departure put a halt in their plans and then Major Jus Oborn decided to create the Electric Wizard. The band signed a contract with Lee Dorian’s Rise Above Records to release their debut “Eternal” in 1993. The demo begins with the awesome “Magickal Childe” track, which has the same intro as “Wizard in Black” (from “Come my Fanatics …”) it moves on with a Black Sabbath cover (“Electric Funeral” ), while there is also a track called “Chrono.Naut.” you guessed right, it is the same track that was also included in the self-titled EP the Wizard released in 1997. They released a live rehearsal tape and then the amazing “Lucifers Children” demo. At the same year, they changed their name once again to Eternal, starting to resemble what would later become Electric Wizard. Although the band did not last long (they split up at 1991), the material they recorded was death / doom of great quality, especially at a time when the genre hadn’t become popular yet.Īfter a guitar player’s change in their ranks (Gavin Gillingham in place of Adam Richardson), the band is being renamed to Thy Grief Eternal and release the excellent “On Blackened Wings” demo in 1992. As a teenager, he began his first attempts to play music in 1988 with Lord of Putrefaction. Jus Oborn was a very active young man since his early days, born in 1969 and a big fan of horror films and heavy music.