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World-class British doom metal band ELECTRIC WIZARD will release its long-awaited new album Black Masses in North America on January 18 via Rise Above Records. The legendary group’s seventh studio album, Black Masses was recorded with Grammy Award-winning British recording engineer Liam Watson (The White Stripes) in London’s Toe Rag Studios. Today, Stereogum premieres the wicked new ELECTRIC WIZARD song “Turn off Your Mind”, calling the track “multi-layered stoner swirl”. Check out “Turn off Your Mind” now at this location.

Long hailed as the true heirs to Black Sabbath, ELECTRIC WIZARD have achieved near iconic status in the metal underground. Now, in league with Satan himself, ELECTRIC WIZARD prepares to annihilate the planet with Black Masses, its “dark prayer to Luciferian heavy metal” via crackling, vintage valve amplifiers set to full overdrive. Pre-release excitement for the record is boosted by the band’s appearance on the cover of the February issue of Decibel magazine, which hits newsstands today.

- “Multi-layered stoner swirl” sounds like an ice cream flavor I’d find at Trader Joe’s.