****** - Verified Buyer
4.5
The opening track, "Black Mass" is crazy heaviness, with insane singing and beautiful dirge-like fuzziness. "Venus in Furs" is a much better track (it has nothing to do with the Velvet Underground song, by the way, other than the title, seemingly inspired by the same book), with the warped fuzz stoner sound, the clinging riff, the insane sneering vocals, the haunting, sweeping solo guitar crunching across soundscapes of stoner grunge, with strange voices floating and sweeping. Wild, crazy, intense and beautiful. Definitely one of the best songs on the album. "Night Child" wafts and wails, but it's nothing special. "Pattern of Evil" is wicked, stuttering soundfulness, shimmering and shammering off the walls of my mind. Next. "Satyr IX" boogies with weird bass doodlings, before building up to a freaky and insane buzz-out that just goes on for ages and ages and ages. It's total rock `n' roll. "Turn Off Your Mind" has a wicked mid-paced riff that just gouges and tears at your brain until it's stripped bare. Strange, heavenly, the end is a sweet stereo swirl. What a crazy track!! "Scorpio Curse" is a wicked rocker that rolls and rolls and roll and rolls, with sweet flanging effects. Great stuff. "Crypt of Drugula" is a sort of weird sound-out that just goes on and on and on and on. With "Black Masses", Electric Wizard simply just delivers and delivers and delivers and delivers and delivers and delivers and delivers and delivers and delivers and delivers and delivers and delivers and delivers and delivers and delivers.The album art is... interesting. Lots of nudity.
