Electric Wizard - Legalise Drugs & Murder

Published April 15 2012

*=Staff's pick	Legalise Drugs & Murder Murder & Madness

Genre	Doom Metal	Jus Osborn	Vocals
Tracks	2	Jus Osborn	Guitar
Running time	11 Min.	Liz Buckingham	Guitar
Label	Rise Above Records	Tas	Bass
Release	31 March 2012	Shaun Rutter	Drums
Country	England	-	Keyboard
Producer	Jus Osborn/Liam Watson
Similar artists	YOB, Sleep

Legalise Drugs & Murder is the latest release from British doom/stoner band Electric Wizard and the last one to feature bass player Tas and drummer Shaun Rutter, who left the band this year. Being one of my favourite bands, I was thrilled to get something new to listen to while waiting for the new album which is schedules for a late 2012 release.

The disappointment was however quite big when the title track started playing, as the main riff is a complete rip off from their own song Satanic Rites Of Drugula, from 2007's Witchcult Today.

Track two, Murder & Madness, is marginally better but not anything spectacular. Rather than its own entity it feels like an outro track (which would be a strange thing on a very short EP) or the end of a twelve minute song. I understand what they're going for with it - some sort of meditative horror movie soundtrack feeling but it's just not a very interesting song.

Witchcult Today and Black Masses were absolutely fantastic and the coming album will probably be great, although including these two songs would lower the overall impression. It's not the most exciting work they've done.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	5	7	6	3

Summary
4 chalices of 10 - Bjorn