Electric Wizard announce new live album ‘Black Magic Rituals and Perversions Vol. 1’

ELECTRIC WIZARD have announced a new live album!

Titled Black Magic Rituals and Perversions Vol. 1, the upcoming live album from the English doom metal band is scheduled to be released later this month, via Spinefarm Records.

Recorded into a 16-track tape machine live, the live album marks the first new release from the band since 2017’s Wizard Bloody Wizard.

“It’s raw as fuck,” says vocalist/guitarist Jus Oborn. “It’s like a lost 70s black metal demo rehearsal session or something. It’s raw, nasty, screaming in your face. I always promised ELECTRIC WIZARD was like rats in your face. This is verging on it.”  

As the COVID pandemic took hold in 2020, the band wondered if they might ever play live again. Out in the wilds of the English Westcountry where Oborn and guitarist Liz Buckingham live, the band descended into their crypt-like jam space to make a live album like no other.

“We’d been gigging for two years at that point, around America three times, going to Japan and Australia, and we were sounding pretty good by the end of it,” adds Jus. “When the pandemic happened we thought, ‘Fuck it, maybe we’ll never play again.’ So we went into the jam room and played the songs to get them on tape to capture how we were playing at the time.”

Alongside the announcement of the new live album, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. Dopethrone  
2. Incense For The Damned  
3. Black Mass  
4. Witchcult Today  
5. Satanic Rites of Drugula  
6. Scorpio Curse  
7. The Chosen Few  
8. Funeralopolis  

Black Magic Rituals and Perversions Vol. 1 is set for release on December 13th via Spinefarm Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here. 

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