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ELECTRIC WIZARD – Listen Kids, It’s Time To Fuckin’ Die!

16 Thursday Oct 2014

Posted by psychorizon in Dialogue

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13, Antwerp, Black Mass, Black Sabbath, Clayton Burgess, Desertfest Blegium, Electric Wizard, Hellfest, It’s Psychedelic Baby, Jess Franco, Justin Oborn, Kenneth Anger, Lee Dorrian, Legalise Drugs and Murder, Lineup Chance, Liz Buckingham, Mark Greening, Occult Rock Magazine, Reverend Bizarre, Rise Above Records, Sadio Witch, Satyr IX Productions, Satyr IX Productions / Witchfinder Records, Shazzula Vultura, Sonisphere, Sourvein, Spinefarm Records, Steve Gullick, Time To Die, Witchfinder Records

Quite some months have passed since the announcement of a new sonic offering from one of the most hailed and yet quarrelsome bands around: Over two decades into their outstanding carrier, Dorset Doomsters ELECTRIC WIZARD have recently stepped away from their long-term label and partner, London-based Rise Above Records – founded and run by former CATHEDRAL mastermind Lee Dorrian, just in case someone didn’t know that – to release their latest attempt, entitled “Time To Die…” through Satyr IX Productions / Witchfinder Records on September 29, 2014. To dive into the depths of the bands’ upcoming Riff-o-Rama, Occult Rock Magazine had a little chat with the Wizard – centered around guitarist & vocalist Jus Oborn and his spouse, axegrinder Liz Buckingham.

Electric Wizard 2014“There is a constant ELECTRIC WIZARD line-up. Me and Liz.” Jus Oborn

Picture by Steve Gullick

When did you begin recording ‘Time to Die’ and when was it completed?

We started it in the summer of 2013 and finished it around April 2014. It took a while, but mainly because it wasn’t recorded in one go and there was a bit of a problem getting back into the studio in the middle, if that makes sense…

Not to get into details, as there has been enough talk and what not online and printed these days, is the fact that you’re releasing the new record under different terms a whole new chapter for the band or just a tiny part of the puzzle?

It can be viewed both ways. I hope it’s a new chapter for the band, but in terms of the bigger picture, it’s probably just another step on our hideous journey into hell…

It’s not a secret that the band is basically the creative outlet of Jus and Liz – the question on everyone’s lips might be: Will there ever be a constant ELECTRIC WIZARD lineup again?

There is a constant ELECTRIC WIZARD line-up. Me and Liz.

Talking about the album or rather its concept, if there is any to speak of, I noted the rather (colour) reduced cover art work: How important is the visual concept of the ongoing promotion or overall work with the band?

I always think we’ve been a very visual band, and of course the artwork is very important to the album / LP format. I mean, we’re not a singles band, we don’t release 3 minute songs, we release long, epic tunes that cover one whole side of an LP. So we always conceive the artwork to go with that concept, and we’ve almost always done it ourselves. I think it’s become almost half of what ELECTRIC WIZARD is… the visual element and the ideology and everything else that goes with the band, that’s part of the attraction, really. Something deeper than just music…

Has censorship ever been an issue for you (For example the EW/REVEREND BIZARRE Split 12” cover artwork…)?

That was censored by our label back then – I think they were worried about it getting into the shops. But, no, we haven’t had as much trouble as you might imagine really, although of course we’ve had the odd Puritan soul who complains about us. Actually, one gig we played was pulled mid-song because the town council didn’t like the video we were showing – that’s happened once or twice, more than with most bands, I guess. We’ve shown some pretty hard-core porn on stage and people being burnt alive, all sorts of horrible shit, you know, just to destroy peoples’ psyches, really. I think if you come to see ELECTRIC WIZARD you already know what you’re in for…

Electric Wizard Sadio WitchThe most current step on the Wizard’s march of global conquest is the video for the second single “Sadio Witch“, which holds a certain resemblance towards the timeless “Black Mass” – would you like to tell us something about this certain song, why it has been chosen and how you got engaged with underground film maker Shazzula Vultura?

Obviously, we’d been meaning to put out a promo video for a long time, it just wasn’t possible with our previous label. So when the opportunity came to do it, we approached Shazzula because we liked a film she’d made a year or so ago, ‘Black Mass Rising’. She’s very influenced by Kenneth Anger and Jess Franco as well, so we very much met on the same page artistically, and it was just a case of us allowing someone else to do something for us and work with us instead of us doing everything ourselves.

The song was chosen because it was written as a single – it’s bloody 4 minutes long! But I don’t think there’s any shame in that. I am really surprised by the rules that some people put on music. A single is supposed to represent your band in usually 3 minutes, so I think we actually went too far in making it 4 minutes, haha. I think the song is perfect as a 7”, which of course it now is.

You’ve just played Desert Fest Antwerp. What are the international touring plans for ‘Time to Die’ ?

Well, the album is meant to be played live. I think that’s pretty obvious from the way it sounds, which is raw and brutal. To be honest, we are probably going to end up touring the fucking world by the end of this album’s life… I’d like to get to South America eventually, and the US tour is coming into play around April 2015, and then we’ll be back to playing in Europe, so hopefully a world tour by the end of the cycle…

Doom Metal went through several stages of development and might now be enjoying its highest point of popularity. Do you consider this to be connected to the cultural/social/political climate of the post-millennium? Is it maybe even a kind of musical/artistic counter concept to neoliberalism?

Well, I think it’s doomy times now. The world sort of feels like it’s entering the doom, and doom metal is the music for it. I think BLACK SABBATH had that period of popularity when people felt a lot of doom and gloom at the beginning of the ’70s, with the Vietnam war and the fuel crisis coming in, and there wasn’t a lot of money around in that period, it was kind of brutal. So when times are hard, people do listen to heavier styles of music… So I think the time is perfect for Electric Wizard. We are a pop band, as far as I’m concerned… we just don’t sell enough records, haha!

Liz & JusFinal question: Is it really “time to die” yet?

Yes, I fucking hope so.

Read the entire Interview ecxlusivly on Occult Rock Magazin!

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BEASTMILK – Present New Video For ‘The Wind Blows Through Their Skulls’

17 Tuesday Jun 2014

Posted by psychorizon in Current

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Anti-Communist Propaganda, Apocalyptic Death-Rock, Beastmilk, Climax, European Tour, Flow Festival, Hell’s Pleasure, Ilosaarirock, In Solitude, Noisey, Obknoxious Youth, Slottsfjell Festival, Sonisphere, Svart Records, The Wind Blows Through Their Skulls, Tourdates, Tuska

The New video by Finnish Apocalyptic Death-Rockers BEASTMILK for ‘The Wind Blows Through Their Skulls’ is Basically Anti-Communist Propaganda
When the world is coming to a nightmarishly brutal end in front of your eyes, your options of things to do in your final moments are a little limited, especially if you’re some schmuck living in an ideallic 50’s suburb. Sure, you could be a giant wuss and hold your family tight, telling them how much you love them and junk. Or, you could be a real dude and go down dancing with the ship.

Beastmilk

That’s the idea behind BEASTMILK’s brand new video for their song ‘The Wind Blows Through Their Skulls.’ Red scare flicks from the 50’s and 60’s smashed and cut together with breakfast cereal ads of the time serve as the perfect backdrop for catastrophic, surfy death rock. Watch citizens of 50’s run screaming into bomb shelters, then come to a catharsis of celebration. Don’t forget to catch the band on tour surfin in the EU this summer, then again in the fall with the catastrophic IN SOLITUDE and OBNOXIOUS YOUTH.

Beastmilk live dates in the summer
28-06-14 FI Helsinki – Tuska Festival
03-07-14 BE Antwerp – Het Bos
04-07-14 NL Amsterdam – Melkweg
05-07-14 NL Rossum – Rosrock
06-07-14 UK Knebworth – Sonisphere
11-07-14 FI Joensuu – Ilosaarirock
18-07-14 GE Pössneck – Hell’s Pleasure
19-07-14 NO Tonsberg – Slottsfjell Festival
10-08-14 FI Helsinki – Flow Festival

IN SOLITUDE
+ BEASTMILK
+ OBNOXIOUS YOUTH
02/10/14 SE – Malmö – Babel
03/10/14 SE – Gothenburg – Truckstop Alaska
04/10/14 SE – Stockholm – Kägelbanan
05/10/14 DK – Copenhagen – Pumpehuset
06/10/14 DE – Hamburg – Hafenklang
07/10/14 PL – Wroclaw – Firlej
08/10/14 DE – Berlin – Cassiopeia
09/10/14 DE – Leipzig- Hellraiser
10/10/14 AT – Wien – Arena
11/10/14 FR – Colmar – Grillen
12/10/14 FR – Marseille – Portrail Coucou
13/10/14 FR – Nantes – Ferralieur
14/10/14 FR – Paris – Glazart
15/10/14 UK – London – Underworld
16/10/14 UK – Glasgow – Underworld
17/10/14 IE – Dublin – Voodoo Lounge
18/10/14 UK – Manchester – Sound Control
19/10/14 UK – Bristol – Exchange
20/10/14 DE – Köln – MTC
21/10/14 DE – München – Feierwerk
22/10/14 AT – Innsbruck – Weekender Club
23/10/14 DE – Trier – Exhaus
24/10/14 DE – Essen – Turock
25/10/14 BE – Antwerpen – Kavka
26/10/14 NL – Arnhem – Willemeen

Source: Noisey
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ELECTRIC WIZARD – Part Ways With Drummer Mark Greening

11 Wednesday Jun 2014

Posted by psychorizon in Current

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13, Antwerp, Black Mass, Clayton Burgess, Desertfest Blegium, Electric Wizard, Hellfest, It’s Psychedelic Baby, Justin Oborn, Lee Dorrian, Legalise Drugs and Murder, Lineup Chance, Liz Buckingham, Mark Greening, Rise Above Records, Satyr IX Productions, Sonisphere, Sourvein, Spinefarm Records, Witchfinder Records

After recently signing a deal with Spinefarm Records, Dorset UK-based Doom legend ELECTRIC WIZARD are once again without a drummer. As reported on Italian Webzine Doommabbestia and stated by on-again-off-again sticksman Mark Greening’s private Facebook page, he is “very gutted and sad but unfortunately I will never get to play live the New electric wizard tracks I recorded/written as Liz has sacked me from the band,gutted but electric wizard are no longer the band I once formed with Justin and Tim many moons ago more of a who can dress the most 1970s club,all I can say is at least the New album will be better than the last three.make love not war.”

Electric Wizard

The mindchild of founding member, guitarist & vocalist Justin Oborn and his spouse (former 13 and SOURVEIN member) axegrinder Liz Buckingham is not only set to work on and release a new album this very year – as reported earlier on Psychorizon – but also scheduled to play several Festivals, among those renowned events like Hellfest in Clisson, France, Sonisphere at Knebworth, UK and Desertfest Belgium in Antwerp.

At the current time the latest lineup change has been neither announced nor commented by the band through any of the available media platforms – keep checking Psychorizon’s Facebook page for further updates on this!

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