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Electric Wizard announce new studio album for 2016

18/05/2016 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Electric Wizard have revealed that they are working on a new studio album.

The whereabouts of the wild and free cult leaders – and the recording/mixing details – are not currently known, but the new collection is expected in time for Halloween and more news is sure to follow in due course.

The album will be the follow-up to 2014’s Time to Die and will be the second release on the band’s Witchfinder Records imprint, the result of a worldwide deal with Spinefarm.

Electric Wizard are set to play the following live dates througout the year

12th Jul: Download, Castle Donington, UK
28th Jul: Metal Days, Tolmin, Slovenia
13th Aug: Brutal Assault, Czech Republic
26th Aug: Psycho Las Vegas, Las Vegas, US
01st Oct: Z7, Basel, Switzerland

Electric Wizard recently headlined Desertfest in both Berlin and London, finishing off the festivals (and the attendees’ ear drums) with the sort of performances that have seen them hailed as the true gate-keepers of UK metal’s great & glorious traditions.

Electric Wizard confirmed to headline Desertfest London 2016

02/09/2015 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Electric Wizard are set to return to the UK capital in 2016 as headliners for next year’s Desertfest, London Edition.

Now in its fifth consecutive year, Desertfest’s mammoth offering of stoner, doom, sludge, psych and all its attendant sub-genres will take place from April 29th – May 1st across multiple venues, in the legendary London musical hub of Camden Town.

Electric Wizard are the first headliners to be revealed, and amongst the first bands to be announced, alongside Elder, Conan, Raging Speedhorn and Witchsorrow.

You can keep up to date with all the details of next year’s event via www.thedesertfest.com. Weekend tickets are priced at £100.

Electric Wizard’s most recent album was 2014’s Time To Die, their eighth studio LP and the band’s first for Spinefarm Records.

Electric Wizard announce special one-off headline show

10/12/201410/12/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Electric Wizard have announced that they are to play a very special one-off show at Camden’s Roundhouse in London.

The gig will take place on the 15th of May with tickets going on sale this Friday at 10am. They will be available via www.roundhouse.org.uk and www.kililive.com

Ahead of the London date, the band will also release a new single “Lucifer’s Slaves”. The song will be available on 10” vinyl & download, complete with exclusive artwork designed by the band themselves plus previously unreleased material.

The show and single follow in the wake of Electric Wizard’s new album Time To Die, released earlier this year. It is the band’s eighth studio LP and their first via Spinefarm Records.

Meanwhile, Electric Wizard will be appearing at CTM 2015 – Un Tune ‘Festival For Adventurous Music & Art’, due to take place at various venues across Berlin between the 23rd of January and 1st of February. Tickets and festival info can be found at www.ctm-festival.de

New music releases, 29th September 2014

29/09/201428/09/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Here are the new and notable music releases for this week, 29th September 2014:

The Weird and Wonderful Marmozets, Marmozets

Hesitant Alien, Gerard Way
Art Official Age, Prince
Plectrumelectrum, Prince and 3rdeyegirl
Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone, Lucinda Williams
R-Kive (Box set), Genesis
Greatest Hits, Levellers
Give My Love To London, Marianne Faithfull
Time To Die, Electric Wizard
Blood Mantra, Decapitated
The Stories We Could Tell, Mr.Big
Back To Oblivion, Finch
Bringing Back The Sunshine, Black Shelton
Soundtracks (Box Set), Ry Cooder
Last Act Of Defiance, Sick Of It All
Pure Heavy, Audrey Horne
Hymns For The Broken, Evergrey
The Ophidian Trek, Meshuggah
Live At The Forum, The Boxer Rebellion
Thrill Of Night, Grand Design
The Great Divide, Enchant
V For Vaselines, The Vaselines
Redemption, Saracen
The Dwarves Invented Rock N Roll, The Dwarves
Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere (Remastered), Heads
The Return, Nonpoint
Roads To The North, Panopticon
Sonic Child, Zodiac
Rise Of The Empress, White Empress
Til Endes, Khold

You can buy all of the above – and many more! – at the Skin Back Alley Music Store, powered by Amazon.

Listen! Electric Wizard stream new single “SadioWitch”

21/08/201421/08/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

British doom metal band Electric Wizard have made their new single available to stream.

“SadioWitch” will be released in digital formats and on 7-inch vinyl “soon” according to a post on the band’s Facebook page.

It is the second track made available from Electric Wizard’s upcoming eighth album Time To Die, due out on the 29th of September. An 11-minute video for lead track “I Am Nothing” was released last month.

The doom outfit’s follow-up to 2010’s Black Masses is described as “uncompromisingly heavy” and “genuinely twisted”.

You can stream “SadioWitch” below:

Time To Die is available for pre-order and the band have confirmed two live dates so far, with more to follow.

12th Sept: Reverence festival, Portugal
10th Oct: Desertfest, Belgium