The parting was not amicable, with Oborn remarking that "We fell out big time with that loser. Greaves left the band in 2006 and was replaced by Shaun Rutter. The band toured England and Australia in support of the album and played at the 2005 Roadburn Festival. And since we were writing together, Electric Wizard was happening again. We have the same sort of down-stroke pattern. So when Liz came aboard we were writing partners again. (The addition of) Liz was the most important element.because Tim had left the band and we were writing partners so to speak. As Oborn explained, the addition of Buckingham was crucial given the departure of his previous writing partner, Bagshaw: This new lineup recorded We Live in 2004, just days after Buckingham began rehearsing with the band. In August 2003, Oborn revealed Electric Wizard's new line-up – drummer Greaves, second-guitarist Liz Buckingham (of 13 and Sourvein), and bassist Rob Al-Issa. Liz Buckingham live in Damnation Festival 2009 In April 2003, Greening and Bagshaw left the band. However, Electric Wizard did a UK tour with Cathedral soon after, with Justin Greaves (of Iron Monkey) on drums. It was announced that the band was breaking up after the last concert of the tour. Following the release, the band embarked on a North American tour that raised tensions between band members. It was Electric Wizard's most experimental record to date. Their next album, Let Us Prey, was released in 2002. It made us feel like we were more of a heavy metal band. We were feeding off that shit at the time. He smashed the window, nicked a bottle of whiskey, then sat there drinking it outside! We weren't very nice people, to be honest. Then Mark got nicked for robbing an offie. Tim went to nick a crucifix off a church roof so we could use it onstage, then slipped, fell off through the window and sliced his arm open. I got arrested for arson of a car, outside a police station.
Speaking to Kerrang! in July 2009, Jus Oborn remembered the days of the recording:Īt the time, we were pretty bad people. Greening broke his collarbone in an accident.
ĭuring the three years following the release of Come My Fanatics., the members of Electric Wizard encountered a series of setbacks, with Oborn suffering a collapsed eardrum during a concert and later severing a fingertip while laying a carpet. Kerrang! has noted that despite the "groovy" stoner rock vibes usually associated with the band, lyrics for songs like We Hate You were more like "an indiscriminate spray of bile against everyone" than the typical stoner rock themes of "shagging and cars". Electric Wizard released the Supercoven EP on Bad Acid Records in 1998 and then recorded and released Dopethrone in 2000, which was described by Allmusic as a "dirge masterpiece" and is regarded as the band's magnum opus. Following the release of Come My Fanatics. Later that year, Man's Ruin Records released the Chrono.Naut EP. In 1997 the band recorded and released Come My Fanatics…, which introduced the stoner and sludge elements that have come to define Electric Wizard's sound. Later that year, they released the song " Demon Lung" as a split-single with Our Haunted Kingdom (later to become Orange Goblin). The music was in the vein of traditional doom metal, and received positive reviews. In 1995 the band signed to Rise Above Records and released their self-titled debut album. Oborn remarked, "Is the name Electric Wizard made out of two Black Sabbath song titles? Hahahaha, yeah it is!" The band's name was taken from two Black Sabbath songs: "Electric Funeral" and " The Wizard". Electric Wizard's name was taken from two Black Sabbath songs.Įlectric Wizard began in Wimborne in Dorset, England during 1993, and was composed of guitarist-vocalist Jus Oborn, bassist Tim Bagshaw, and drummer Mark Greening.