In the world of sludge, there was always one British antidote to the onslaught from Louisiana. While this style of music – the inbred offspring of doom, stoner and southern music – was essentially an ...

Today, “stoner rock” is an established genre — though as with “emo” or “indie,” not all its players or fans love the term. (“Doom” is safer.) But call it what you will, everyone aware of the genre ...

Dopethrone, Electric Wizard’s masterpiece, is without a doubt one of stoner metal’s defining albums. It’s revered by genre diehards and casual listeners alike, and sixteen years after its release it ...

Suggested subtitle for the second album by one of England’s more singleminded bands: “More romantic odes about drugs, death and Satan.” Unlike their American stoner-rock counterparts, who owe as much ...

The heaviest, hardest doom metal band on the planet have made an unlikely ascent from rural Dorset to sell-out gigs in big venues There are few more unlikely success stories in the rock’n’roll ...

Dopethrone, says Dan 'The Doom' Franklin, is the greatest album ever recorded; so great in fact that it splintered the band that created it. But one person was standing in the wings, with resurrection ...

UK doom legends Electric Wizard brought their first North American tour in over a decade to NYC last night (4/2) for a Webster Hall show that unsurprisingly sold out well in advance. Electric Wizard ...

When Sound On Sound cancelled last year, it robbed Austin heshers of the hotly anticipated return of Electric Wizard. Last seen locally at Emo’s Jr. in 2001, the Dorset-born doomsters have grown in ...

Six albums after the release of their magnum opus, Dopethrone, Electric Wizard are beginning to show signs of burning out. While Wizard Bloody Wizard is in many ways a solid release by the British ...

After making a name for themselves with 1997's monstrous Come My Fanatics album, Dorset, UK's Neanderthal trio became pretty much invisible. When they did manage to come up for air, the results were ...