Dopethrone Review

Band	Electric Wizard
Album	Dopethrone
Type	Album (Studio full-length)
Released	October 9, 2000
Genres	Stoner Metal, Doom Metal
Labels	Rise Above Records
Ranked	#15 for 2000 , #611 all-time

Reviewer :  RevDrDeLeon         Rating :  100 / 100

The album art looks like Adam Sandler's character Little Nicky at a slightly older age, but with a fully grown out beard and noticable horns, while smoking a bong. Album art is funny, but the biggest draw for me to this was "Weird Tales / Electric Frost / Golgotha / Altar of Melektaus". I was high as dinosaur tits hearing that song that I felt I was in a hypnotic state. "Dopethrone" can also be hypnotic for a bit halfway in but for the right reasons. It stimulates the brain while listening to the Dopethrone album as a whole.

Perhaps the metal version of "Zombie" by the Cranberries had some influence on "We Hate You"? Its close to Halloween in my area radiowise so don't judge me on this part. Otherwise, I love how chill this album is.

"I The Witchfinder" has that truly slow pace to it that would make you wonder if the guitars are also high. Everything feels rightfully distorted and slowed down to feel like you're in a psychedelic trip.

Now that I hear "Barbarian" I hear the variety that Electric Wizard has to offer in this album. The vocals here sound at least five years ahead of it's time considering this would be normal for The Black Keys to do about one decade later.

"Vinum Sabbathi" has a bit of a Reggae-like intro going on in it's percussions which is great for those expecting that kind of percussions in Stoner Metal. It's like smooth segwaying from one genre to another!

Overall, this is a great stoner metal album. Ironically the first time I heard anything from this album, it was Funeralopolis on a video made by a guy explaining metal genres on YouTube. I did vaguely reference him when saying this genre's guitars sound like they're high. Overall, this is among the best metal albums to listen to while toking.