Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today (2007)

   Electric Wizard debuted as a strongly Black Sabbath/Cathedral influenced stoner/doom band, and after they've reached the possible borders of heaviness and extreme sound distortion on the album "Dopethrone", they seeemed to laid back and chill.
   The psychedelic atmosphere stayed the same remarkable, and their music didn't lose anything from it's obscure demoralizing effect, but "Witchcult Today" is more like a levitation into oblivion. The album doesn't sounds so tired of life and desperate like the previous ones, but it's still not recommended for cheerful "long time no see" gatherings. The hidden goal of the levivation and the slow, heavily bouncing themes is still to end up in some black hole to get rid of the miserable parameters of existence. Electric Wizard was always like if their albums were recorded in the '70s, only the strongly distorted sound counted as a warning. By turning the noise a little bit down, "Witchcult Today" had pretty vintage main view, maybe more than previously, and that gave some "long time durable" effect to their music. Another masterpiece, but by the well-tried recipe it's hard to fail.