Dopethrone

Heavy as Godzilla stomping your brain. Heavy as a Mack truck running over your stoned butt. Yes it is. It's really like hanging out with friends and having a good time and someone decides to make a casserole. They start throwing all kinds of ingredients into it and all you're thinking is "Man, this is gonna be good" and you tingle with excitement. It goes into the oven for a while and you indulge into more of your vice of choice thinking in the back of your mind "When is that glorious casserole gonna be done so I can enjoy it's gooey goodness". The hunger gets more aggressive to the point you're looking every minute at a clock but it seems it's not moving. The anticipation keeps building and finally after an eternity the casserole is done and you grab a plate, a bowl, a slab of wood and scoop some of that hot mess onto it and dig in and realize it tastes like a cake. It's not casserole but cake and it's the most awesomest cake you ever had. Yeah, that's Dopethrone. Have your cake and eat it too you grimy stoners.

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What can I say about this that hasn't already been said? This album will bludgeon you to death, and then stomp on your brains - and you will love it and go back for more! I sometimes just laugh when the opening song plays - it is so "how the hell did they do that??" heavy! This is doom, sludge, fuzz, and sheer weight. It's not fast, blast, double-bass and guitar proggy pyrotechnics - it's sludge - pure, evil, thick, smoked out sludge. Careful how loudly you play it - I could see it blowing speakers, it is SOOO fuzzy and distorted. I'll end it here, I can't say anything that hasn't already been said. Buy this, and be careful with it!

This English trio of darkness have called themselves the "heaviest band in the Universe..." I can't disagree with that fact, no Sir, not one bit. Listening to this album is like trying to swim laps in Mississippi mud, a veritable quagmire of colossal magnitude thrust upon your shoulders rendering you helpless. Funeralopolis with it's melodic detuned chugging is akin to the stickiest of the icky! After one listen you can practically feel your consciousness descend like lead into the pit of your stomach as this unholy triumvirate's melodies drag you down into the sludge factory of DOOM METAL! This album is amazing if you're down with music that sounds like it was written by Lu Cifer himself!!! After all if metal is the product of Satan... THEN AT LEAST HE JAMS!!!!!

I will admit, I was not familiar with Electric Wizard until I picked up Terrorizer magazine this week and saw their choice of Dopethrone as the best metal album of the last decade. That piqued my interest. That they are considered a "stoner rock" band, and I am a fan of the band Sleep, cemented my decision: I had to hear this album. I'm glad I did. Dopethrone is one of the heaviest albums I have ever heard. It is thunderous! The vocals of Jus Oborn are mixed down into the music and can be difficult to decipher, but that is not a complaint. To me, the non-prominent vocals add to the denseness of the songs. Four of the tracks exceed ten minutes, and not one of them is dull. The riffs, the crush, and the sheer heaviness of this album make Dopethrone a true wonder. I do believe Terrorizer is right on this one.

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The tempo of Electric Wizard and the other bands being compared is nothing less than a retarded comparison. The sound is grossly different instrumentally. This is a rare pace of music people strive to find. Something that may reignite the sounds of old Sabbath stuff that never got radio play. Although I don't think anything will come close to the amount of good Sabbath songs, or sound as good, it's still nice to hear. It's almost like me saying some Black Sabbath songs are too long and slow, everyone should go listen to Iron Maiden. Bad comparison. It simply means you may not like the sound, but it then shouldnt be compared to something quite different.

Simply put, this is the most foul, sludgy, and distorted record I have ever heard in all the best ways possible. I got the purple sparkle pressing and the quality is top-notch.

"Dopethrone" è, a mio avviso, uno dei migliori album metal degli anni duemila, nonché l'apice artistico della band sotto molti punti di vista. Questa ristampa del 2021 poi riesce ad offrire persino qualcosa in più, non solo perché contiene "Mind Transferral " (ottima bonus track strumentale prerogativa delle edizioni in vinile), ma anche perché si occupa di rendere il suono complessivamente più lisergico che tagliente. Asperità sonore che quindi alla lunga posso dare noia in un'opera come questa (parlo dell'esperienza di un ascolto in streaming), trovano qui il giusto modo di essere equilibrate con componenti utili a perfezionare la sua godibilità senza intaccarne minimamente la violenta cadenza doom/stoner. Il risultato è un ascolto così scorrevole e coinvolgente che senti presto il desiderio di rimettere nuovamente i dischi sul piatto. Per non parlare poi di altri punti a favore come: il prezzo estremamente adeguato, il gatefold con testi e grafiche azzeccatissime, la bellezza e silenziosità delle lacche viola spolverate d'oro, ecc... Insomma, se si vuole scoprire o riscoprire della grande musica come quella presente in "Dopethrone", difficilmente si può sperare in qualcosa di meglio.

セカンド・アルバム 「Come My Fanatics...」 (1996年) から、ミニ・アルバム 「Supercoven」 (1998年 / 1999年) とつづく一連の傑作群の最後をかざるアルバム第3作。この時期の EW は神のレベルだ。本作では曲やアレンジに配慮し、ドラッグにまみれた狂気のあらたな表現方法を追求。傍若無人なジャム演奏による激しさや混沌をやみくもに追いもとめてゆくだけでなく、各部分間のコントラストを強調した曲構成・曲展開をみせるなど、音楽的な成長がうかがえる。第2曲 「Funeralopolis」 にこめられた殺気は尋常ではない。3部構成15分を要する組曲 「Weird Tales」 (第3曲) も納得。アルバムそのものは高次元の一大ドラッグ讃歌だが、かなり密度の高い前半にくらべて、中盤から曲の出来が見劣りする点に多少の恨みがのこる。しかし必聴盤であることにはかわりない。衝撃度でえらべばセカンド、完成度でえらぶなら本作ということになるだろう。

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