Franklin, Dan
Come My Fanatics
Led by guitarist and singer Jus Oborn, Electric Wizard began as an untameable power trio. They inhaled the iniquity of their lives and vomited it out in colossal waves of doom metal, synthesising the forbidding local landscape, biker culture, video-nasties and black magic rituals. After triumphant and calamitous tours of the USA and following the release of 2000's 'Dopethrone', Electric Wizard imploded, destroyed by the very reality they were fighting against. 'Come My Fanatics' is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the subculture the band has absorbed and, in turn, created. From seventies exploitation cinema, through the writers of Weird Tales magazine and a panoply of the marginal and downright sinister, to the band's own live ceremonial happenings - this is Electric Wizard's world.