Limited edition with sleeve and alt artwork version ĭie Hard Edition – Deluxe boxed edition x 400 copies. Liam Watson – produced, mixed and engineered.Edryd Turner – Mellotron on "The Nightchild".Track listing Īll music by Oborn, except where noted. However, the author did concede that the album was a "grower" that improved with subsequent exposure. The album received some criticism, with describing the album as "scattered and unfocused," with performances that are "loose to the point of bordering on sloppy," and a murky production. It's a nasty, angry beast of a recording that oozes sleaze and reeks of satanic nightmares and drug induced apocalyptic visions." In a way it takes all the elements from all their albums, melts them down and turns them into something different again. It's an more ugly, sleazy and dirty album than Witchcult Today but it hasn't got the sickness that gets spewed at you during Dopethrone. Reception Professional ratings Review scoresĭavid Schalek with wrote that " Black Masses has the right amount of accessible, catchy stoner laden riffs to go along with the generally heavy assault of Electric Wizard's form of Black Sabbath-descended doom metal." ĭoomantia largely celebrated the album, proclaiming "if you thought Witchcult Today was too polished, then you will love Black Masses. This is their first album since Electric Wizard to not feature a song longer than 10 minutes in length, although the fifth track, "Satyr IX", is close to the mark, clocking in at 9:58. I think that's the important thing for a band, for the musicians." Album information You can write brilliant music when you're not on drugs, but you don’t have that connection with other musicians, that telepathy. I think our sound is steeped in it to a certain degree, and improvisation is quite a lot based on drugs.You gotta be slightly telepathic and drugs can help that definitely. "It's a good part of my life to a certain degree, so it's hard to separate them. When asked about the influence of drugs upon the album, Oborn concedes When you say the term 'Venus in furs,' people get the image in their mind of a dominant female. Every song on the album is a meditation on a different type of evil. As Oborn notes, "Venus in Furs" is "about evil women. "Venus in Furs" is based on the book of the same name by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch however, the song made references to the film of the same name by Jesús Franco. However, he does draw a contrast between Black Masses and Witchcult Today in that he views the former as "violent, aggressive" and the latter as "mellow and alluring". Guitarist-vocalist Jus Oborn described the album as a "continuation of Witchcult Today in many respects," although he also sees it as part of a lineage composed of Come My Fanatics., Supercoven, Dopethrone, and Witchcult Today. Black Masses is the only Electric Wizard album to feature bassist Tas Danazoglou.
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