Electric Wizard – Dopethrone

Great stoner doom  8)

Quote from: Jward on May 29, 2026, 09:40:06 AMElectric Wizard – Dopethrone

Great stoner doom  8)

I don't listen to much stoner doom, but Electric Wizard at their best really infused the experience with such negativity and hate it is hard not to like it! Stoner is usually a bit too generic and cartoonish- and EW have albums like that too- but Dopethrone is pure nihilism.

Quote from: Eoin McLove on May 29, 2026, 09:53:27 AM
Quote from: Jward on May 29, 2026, 09:40:06 AMElectric Wizard – Dopethrone

Great stoner doom  8)

I don't listen to much stoner doom, but Electric Wizard at their best really infused the experience with such negativity and hate it is hard not to like it! Stoner is usually a bit too generic and cartoonish- and EW have albums like that too- but Dopethrone is pure nihilism.

Song-writing in a lot of stoner doom I've heard is poor.
They seem to just go for the sound more than the craft.

Quote from: Jward on May 29, 2026, 10:04:12 AM
Quote from: Eoin McLove on May 29, 2026, 09:53:27 AM
Quote from: Jward on May 29, 2026, 09:40:06 AMElectric Wizard – Dopethrone

Great stoner doom  8)

I don't listen to much stoner doom, but Electric Wizard at their best really infused the experience with such negativity and hate it is hard not to like it! Stoner is usually a bit too generic and cartoonish- and EW have albums like that too- but Dopethrone is pure nihilism.

Song-writing in a lot of stoner doom I've heard is poor.
They seem to just go for the sound more than the craft.

Not a huge fan of the genre myself, but I'd recommend checking out As Heaven Turns to Ash by Warhorse. They're like the US version of EW and the tunes are equally as good.

Bloodbath - Survival of the Sickest

Quote from: Jward on May 29, 2026, 09:40:06 AMElectric Wizard – Dopethrone

Great stoner doom  8)
Savage album, a favourite.  Had it on again lately myself.  "I, The Witchfinder" easily one of the best songs going in the genre, the bit where the drums drop back to the toms and everything else just builds on the huge doom crush over them - ridiculous. Love it.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on May 29, 2026, 09:53:27 AMI don't listen to much stoner doom, but Electric Wizard at their best really infused the experience with such negativity and hate it is hard not to like it! Stoner is usually a bit too generic and cartoonish- and EW have albums like that too- but Dopethrone is pure nihilism.
90% of the genre is dogshit, but I am a big fan of the approach done well or the particular flavour of it I enjoy expanded on.  It is a thing that is fairly loose as to what sort of style falls under it but like yourself here I need a bit of bleak in there as a salt on the stoner riffs to get it going, most of the time.  The production has tons to do with it too, another genre that is usually better ragged and blown out, or live takes over anything too polished up.

Been on the new Tooms album all day.  Just great, can't get enough of it.  Heavy, dirty, loads to dig into.
https://cursedmonk.bandcamp.com/album/karst

Tårfödd - Efterlämnade i sorg

Axxis - Kingdom Of The Night.
Never listened to this before and was pretty excited after hearing the first track which is a cracker then the rest of the album descended into generic hard rock bullshit. Very disappointing after that killer first song.