Electric Wizard are a doom band from Dorset, England which formed in 1993. Among the more popular bands from their genre, they have a distinct yet still traditional doom metal sound with stoner and sludge references at times. During 2003, founding members Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening left Electric Wizard to form their own band, Ramesses. Electric Wizard are currently signed to Rise Above Records.
History
Often referred to as the "heaviest band in the universe", Electric Wizard were formed in 1993, when Jus Oborn left his then band Eternal/Thy Grief Eternal and joined with Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening to record the split single "Demon Lung" with Our Haunted Kingdom (later to become Orange Goblin).The band's self-titled debut album was released two years later to good reviews, but it was 1997's Come My Fanatics... that really cemented their place in doom metal history. Extremely downtuned and bass-heavy, the album is often described as one of the heaviest records of the nineties.It w