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  • Summary: The ninth full-length studio release for the British doom metal band was produced by lead singer Jus Oborn & guitarist Liz Buckingham.
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  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
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  1. The Wire
    Dec 19, 2017
    80
    The quartet sound vital here, powered by a passion that is infectious and thrilling. [Dec 2017, p.52]
  2. Nov 13, 2017
    80
    Conceived in antithesis to the tediously technically proficient metal that’s abundant these days, EW’s ninth album takes joy-doom to another level. Their riffs match the fuzziness of their weed-fogged minds.
  3. Kerrang!
    Nov 30, 2017
    80
    An album that once again sees Wizard creating a new landscape with only the slightest adjustment. Yeah, it's more rock'n'roll, but it's still ultra-stoned, it's still ultra-heavy, and Electric Wizard still hate[s] you. [25 Nov 2017, p.51]
  4. Nov 10, 2017
    70
    They're not breaking new ground, or trying to: True to their sorcerous name, the band simply performs the right incantations and brings forth old demons from the abyss. Some things don't need reinventing, and fortunately for Electric Wizard, heavy metal is one of them.
  5. Nov 15, 2017
    70
    Wizard Bloody Wizard proves that the music Black Sabbath birthed can still hit hard without much in the way of embellishment nearly fifty years later.
  6. Nov 10, 2017
    70
    Wizard Bloody Wizard doesn't break any new ground for this band, but innovation has never been what these folks are about. Instead, their albums are offerings to the gods of the blacklight poster and the bong, and on that level, Electric Wizard appear to have made their masters very happy indeed.
  7. 60
    If you compare this to past triumphs like Come My Fanatics and Dopethrone--albums that pushed doom metal into heavier and more joyously drug-addled territory than ever before--Wizard Bloody Wizard falls a spliff or two short of the mark.

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