Dopethrone

Dopethrone
Studio album by Electric Wizard
Released	25 September 2000
Recorded	May – June 2000 at Chuckalumba Studios in Dorset, England
Genre	Doom metal, stoner metal, sludge metal
Length	70:09
Label	Rise Above
Producer	Rolf Startin
Electric Wizard chronology
Supercoven (1998) Dopethrone (2000) Let Us Prey (2002)

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Dopethrone is the third full-length album by the doom metal band Electric Wizard. It was released in 2000 through Rise Above Records and re-released by the same label in 2004 and 2007 with an extra song.

Dopethrone, along with Come My Fanatics..., is often cited as Electric Wizard's seminal release and the highpoint of their career. Reviewers have described it as "some of the absolute slowest, heaviest doom imaginable"^[1] and have said "it may well be the finest record to emerge from the whole British stoner-rock scene".^[2]

On this album, Electric Wizard's very slow, heavy and psychedelic sound became more abrasive and aggressive. Jus Oborn's vocals are heavily manipulated and low in the mix and the guitars are extremely fuzzy.

Dopethrone was crowned "Album of the Decade" (2000s) by Terrorizer magazine.

The song "Vinum Sabbathi" appears in the documentary "Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia"

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Jus Oborn. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Vinum Sabbathi"	3:05
2.	"Funeralopolis"	8:43
3.	"Weird Tales" "Electric Frost" "Golgotha" "Altar of Melektaus"	15:05
4.	"Barbarian"	6:29
5.	"I, The Witchfinder Aka Las Torturas de la Inquisicion"	11:04
6.	"The Hills Have Eyes"	0:46
7.	"We Hate You"	5:08
8.	"Dopethrone" (10:55 on versions featuring "Mind Transferral")	20:48
9.	"Mind Transferral" (reissues only)	14:54
Total length:		76:08

Silence and sound-clips

Silence

"Dopethrone" ends at 10:26 (on both issues) and is followed by silence; to the end of the track on the reissue and until 19:52 on the original. On the original, the ending features a 55 sec. sound clip from 20/20 in which two adults can be heard talking about whether or not a parent should take action if their child is being negatively influenced by heavy metal music by becoming depressed and joining satanic cults. The reissue negates the sound-clip from "Dopethrone" and has it end in only 30 seconds of silence and moves on to the bonus track which, in this essence, makes it a hidden track. Now the band had decided to move the sound clip to the end of the bonus track "Mind Transferal" which ends at 9:36 followed by silence until 14:00 where the sound-clip is now placed and leads to the end of the album.

Sound-clips

• "Vinum Sabbathi," "Mind Transferal," and "Dopethrone" contain sound clips from the May 16, 1985 episode of 20/20, discussing Satanism.
• "Barbarian" contains a sound clip from a scene in the film Conan the Barbarian.
• "I, The Witchfinder" and "Dopethrone" contain sound clips from the film Mark of the Devil.
• "We Hate You" contains sound clips from the film The Dunwich Horror.

Personnel

• Jus Oborn - guitar, vocals, effects
• Tim Bagshaw - bass, effects
• Mark Greening - drums
• All lyrics - Jus Oborn
• All music - Electric Wizard
• Produced and Engineered by Rolf Startin
• Artwork - Hugh Gilmour, Tim Bagshaw and Jus Oborn

Release history

Year	Label	Format	Country	Out of Print?	Notes
2000	Rise Above	CD	U.K.	Yes	Original CD release
2001	JVC Victor	CD	Japan	Yes	Includes bonus track
2001	The Music Cartel	CD	U.S.	Yes
2004	Rise Above	CD	U.K.	Yes	Includes bonus track
2004	Rise Above	2LP	U.K.	Yes	Includes bonus track; limited 1500 copies (1000 white, 500 black)
2007	Rise Above	2LP	U.K.	Yes	Includes bonus track; limited 800 copies (50 purple silk, 100 transparent amber, 100 clear, 550 black)
2007	Rise Above	DigiCD	U.K.	No	Remastered version; includes bonus track
2007	Candlelight	DigiCD	U.S.	No	Remastered version; includes bonus track
2010	Rise Above	2LP	UK	No	Black Vinyl Re-issue

Covers

The American doom metal band Akem Manah released a cover a "Funeralopolis" as a digital single on November 18, 2010 through Cdbaby.^[3] Also released on their EP Horror In The Eyes on MArch 29, 2011.

References

1. ^ Doommetal.com review
2. ^ LA Weekly review
3. ^ http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/akemmanah3