History Music / ElectricWizard

* EpicRocking: Most of their output, to the point where it's much, much easier to count the tracks that are less than five minutes in length. Amongst their full-length albums, the longest tracks are "Weird Tales" and "Saturn's Children", both around fifteen minutes in length. ("Dopethrone" and "Mind Transferral" on various editions of ''Dopethrone'' are subversions, each containing a hidden track after several minutes of silence.)

* EpicRocking: Most of their output, to the point where it's much, much easier to count the tracks that are less than five minutes in length.

Electric Wizard is a British DoomMetal[=/=]StonerMetal band formed in 1993. Their style is slow, heavy and fuzzy, with lyrics typically involving marijuana, the occult, witchcraft, Creator/HPLovecraft and horror films. They are generally considered one of the major bands of the stoner metal subgenre, though they also have sludge metal traits in their more aggressive material (such as ''Dopethrone'').

Initially, the band was a power trio consisting of vocalist/guitarist Jus Oborn, bassist Tim Bagshaw and drummer Mark Greening; in 2003, the latter two members left the band, leaving Oborn to recruit a new lineup, which included his wife, Liz Buckingham, as second guitarist.

!!This band provides the following trope examples:

* LoudnessWar: Their material since ''Come My Fanatics...'' has fallen under this trope, with ''Dopethrone'' being the worst of the lot ([=DR4=] on the original, [=DR3=] on the remaster). Vinyl versions tend to be significantly quieter than the CD/digital versions, though, as is usually the case.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness - On the border between 9 and 10. Some of their ''Come My Fanatics...'' material is said to border 10 and 11, making it among the only doom metal examples to do so.

** The band's name comes from Music/BlackSabbath - namely, by combining two of their song titles ("''Electric'' Funeral" and "The ''Wizard''"). A further Black Sabbath ShoutOut is the cover art to the EP ''Legalise Drugs and Murder'', which looks very similar to that of Sabbath's ''Master of Reality''.

* ShoutOut: Being a stoner doom band, Electric Wizard tends to have a lot of shout outs to stoner, grindhouse, and pulp fantasy fiction. "Barbarian" is a song about, you guessed it, Literature/ConanTheBarbarian. "I, the Witchfinder" is about the old movie ''Mark of the Devil''.

* DroneOfDread: Arguably one of the first to incorporate this heavily into the DoomMetal genre. The thick, meaty sound of their amped guitars produces this effect, which is particularly heavy on Dopethrone, but is present to some extent on all of their work.

* EpicRocking: Most of their output, to the point where it's much, much, easier to count the tracks that are less than five minutes in length.
* HarshVocals: A case where the degree of harshness varies not by the style, but the production. Oborn consistently uses something between a shout and a moan, which gets distorted to certain extents. In Dopethrone, for example, not only are the vocals fuzzy and reverberating, but are pushed so far back in the mix it sounds like they're coming from the inside of an inter-dimensional vacuum cleaner. Witchcult Today and We Live are heavily-distorted, but put in front of the mix, making a keen listener able to understand what Jus's going on about. The first album uses clean, unmixed singing altogether.

* IAmTheBand - Jus Oborn is the sole remaining founding member of the band.

* MutuallyAssuredDestruction: Where the death world on "Funerapolis" comes from.

* SelfTitledAlbum - As seen above. Adding more to this example, the album has a title track (so, Electric Wizard - "Electric Wizard", from ''Electric Wizard'').

* TitleDrop - Partial drop of the band name, from the very start of ''Barbarian'', ''"the wizard!"''.

* ShoutOut: Being a stoner doom band, Electric Wizard tends to have a lot of shout outs to stoner, grindhouse, and pulp fantasy fiction. "Barbarian" is a song about, you guessed it, Literature/ConanTheBarbarian. "I, The Witchfinder" is about the old movie ''Mark of the Devil''.
** The band's name comes from Music/BlackSabbath - namely, by combining two of their song titles ("''Electric'' Funeral" and "The ''Wizard''"). A further Black Sabbath ShoutOut is the cover art to the EP ''Legalise Drugs and Murder'', which looks very similar to that of Sabbath's ''Master Of Reality''.

* TitleDrop - Partial drop of the band name, from the very start of ''Barbarian'', ''"the wizaard!"''.

* CrapsackWorld: Electric Wizard albums are bleak and chaotic, with apocalyptic lyrics growled through a wall of distortion. No shortage of drugs to go around while we wait, at least.
* DoomMetal

* EpicRocking - Most of their output.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness - On the border between 9 and 10. Some of their ''Come My Fanatics...'' material is said to border 10 and 11, making it among the only doom metal examples to do so.

* TitleDrop - Partial drop of the band name, from the very start of ''Barbarian'', ''"the wizaaard!"''.
* TropeCodifier: For sludgy, stoner-influenced DoomMetal. Indeed, it's all but impossible to find a fan of the above genres that hasn't at least listened to more than one of their albums.

** The band's name comes from Music/BlackSabbath - namely, by combining two of their song titles ("''Electric'' Funeral" and "The ''Wizard''").

Electric Wizard is a British DoomMetal[=/=]StonerMetal band formed in 1993. Their style is slow, heavy and fuzzy, with lyrics typically involving marijuana, the occult, witchcraft, HP Lovecraft and horror films. They are generally considered one of the major bands of the stoner metal subgenre, though they also have sludge metal traits in their more aggressive material (such as ''Dopethrone'').

* StartMyOwn: Tim Bagshaw and Serpentine Path. Subverted with Burgess and Satan's Satyrs, as the latter was around well before he joined Electric Wizard.

* CreatorCouple: Jus and Liz

* PromotedFanboy: Clayton Burgess

* {{sampling}}: From Dopethrone and onward, many songs in their discography have small samples from movies or PSA's at the beginning.
* ShoutOut: Being a stonerdoom band, Electric Wizard tends to have a lot of shout outs to stoner, grindhouse, and pulp fantasy fiction. "Barbarian" is a song about, you guessed it, Literature/ConanTheBarbarian. "I, The Witchfinder" is about the old movie ''Mark of the Devil''.

* BlackMagic: Everything in "Vinum Sabbathi"
* BurnTheWitch: "I, The Witchfinder" mixes this with ColdBloodedTorture

* EldritchAbomination: The ancient Yuggoth mentioned in "Weird Tales" seems to be one of the sleeping and soon to be awoken variety

* WatchItStoned
* HeavyMithril

* MutuallyAssuredDestruction: Where the death world on "Funerapolis" comes from

* [[SamPling Sampling]]: Many songs on ''Dopethrone'' have small samples from movies or PSA's at the beginning.
* ShoutOut: Being a stonerdoom band, Electric Wizard tends to have alot of shout outs to stoner, grindhouse, and pulp fantasy fiction. "Barbarian" is a song about, you guessed it, ConanTheBarbarian. "I, The Witchfinder" is about the old movie ''Mark of the Devil''.

* TropeCodifier: For [[{{DoomMetal}} Stoner Metal]]

* Tas - bass

* [[Sampling]]: Many songs on ''Dopethrone'' have small samples from movies or PSA's at the beginning.

* Sampling: Many songs on ''Dopethrone'' have small samples from movies or PSA's at the beginning.

* MagnumOpus - Generally considered by fans to be ''Dopethrone'', although ''Come My Fanatics...'' is frequently regarded as a classic also.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Some parts of "Dopethrone," sound like Music/BlackSabbath's, "Iron Man."
** More recently, they've adopted part of the main riff of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath to "Black Mass."

* EldritchAbombination: The ancient Yuggoth mentioned in "Weird Tales" seems to be one of the sleeping and soon to be awoken variety

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Some parts of "Dopethrone," sound like BlackSabbath's, "Iron Man."

* ShoutOut: "Barbarian" is a song about, you guessed it, ConanTheBarbarian

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness - On the border between 9 and 10. Some of their ''Come My Fanatics...'' material is said to actual border 10 and 11, making it among the only doom metal examples to do say.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness - On the border between 9 and 10.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Some parts of "Dopethrone," sound like BlackSabbath's, "Iron Man."

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Some parts "Dopethrone," sound like BlackSabbath's, "Iron Man."

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Some parts "Dopethrone," sound like BlackSabbath's, "Iron Man,"

* EverythingsBetterOnDrugs