Electric Wizard, Electric Wizard - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction

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When I first heard that this is classed as “doom-metal”, I really expected to dislike it, but music can always surprise, even when it’s “doom-metal”. I am curious if those of you who never heard this song before will be at least as surprised as I was.
Here’s the link to the original song by Electric Wizard:
• Electric Wizard
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@TheGrooovyDude 11 ай бұрын

Who made this poor lady listen to electric wizard 😭 and didnt even get her a joint.

@SylviusTheMad Жыл бұрын

I did not expect to see Electric Wizard appear on this channel (or any channel, really). Thanks for this.

@hellinterface6721 4 ай бұрын

She likes it

@jameshatley9390 Жыл бұрын

On the off chance you read this, Amy, I wanted to offer some possible insight. This type of music is very simple and visceral. Think of a Buddhist chant, or a mantra, that is intended to cause the body to resonate. Think of the drone, and the centering feel. There's little worry about a big change and every part of the music feeds this joy in the resonance and its influence on the body. It's anti-intellectual in a way because the point is to still the mind. This is music for the body. When you burry the vocal or the solo in the thickness of the sound, it invites, as you reacted, higher volume and deeper listening. This simply increases the vibration. I think there is a link between Doom and sacred music in terms of a physical function.

@Hartlor_Tayley Жыл бұрын

I totally agree. I was about to say a similar thing.

@richpeltier9519 Жыл бұрын

Excellent observation! 🤘🧙‍♂️🤘

@elevenseven-yq4vu Жыл бұрын

The meditative, trance inducing element definitely plays a big part in the doom style appeal and effect on its audience. While it can be almost oppressingly dark and heavy, this can also have a comforting aspect to it, a kind of stoicism, and also functions aurally like a therapy blanket functions physically: It weighs you down, but in doing so it keeps you grounded, anchored in your physicality, enveloping you and giving you a sense of security. Its force seems to permeate the body and make it immovable by outward forces, keeping you centered in your own warmth and pulse, reflecting the rhythms of your breath, and at the same time keeping you safe from harm.

@jameshatley9390 Жыл бұрын

@@BrokenFingersGuitar This is what they said about Shumann's orchestral works. Minimalist artists get painted with the same brush. To me, it doesn't hold much water. Simple is hard. Poetry is hard. To make something simple that is good or even great? It's a challenge. I suspect the other side of the coin is that some musicians have amazing mastery or technical skill, but can't bang out a convincing melody to save their life. This judgement-calling people out as dishonest. It feels like you are maybe projecting personal feelings. I'm not defending Electric Wizard here either. They have always been derivative in their Sabbath worship, but they do it well enough that people enjoy it. I don't think mine or your personal measuring stick for musical accomplishment necessarily applies. Take music on it's own terms and ask if it does what it set out to do. If you don't appreciate the aim, well, then it's not for you.

@Hartlor_Tayley Жыл бұрын

@@BrokenFingersGuitar well you know their is whole lot more to being in a rock band than playing your instrument.

@rohmarts Жыл бұрын

must admit I smiled when she said "I'm gonna turn this up".

@xbenci Жыл бұрын

I was like "it's not loud enough already?". Amy a real one

@brianflynn5355 5 ай бұрын

Yes 🤘

@russellstall169 4 ай бұрын

The key to enjoying electric wizard tbh

@foret4a874 3 ай бұрын

It’s funny cause the volume mixing for them is literally louder than anything else

@stephengibbons4771 Жыл бұрын

First time I ever heard Electric Wizard, it was the opening track Return Trip from their Come My Fanatics album. After about a minute, I knew I was hooked forever. It sounded like a herd of elephants were stampeding out of my speakers. Still a big fan more than 25 years later. Great video!

@94sadico Жыл бұрын

Man, return trip is such a good track. I would love to hear her opinion on that one, funeralopolis and mind transferal.

@sekritdokumint9326 9 ай бұрын

That opening drone at the start of Return Trip grabs you by every mm of your body and never loosens it's grip for the whole duration of the song

@sadhu7191 7 ай бұрын

Same. I found them during thunder storm on pandora

@un_nownmusic Ай бұрын

The slowest and heaviest of them all

@jillimyjilikers2036 Жыл бұрын

As a long time Electric Wizard fan and for even longer a blues fan I found this fascinating. Especially as its from someone who's not from the stoner/doom realm and who's a trained classical musician seeing so much depth in the music,almost like a fan. She's feeling so many layers ,where many others would ignore it,she has elevated it. Blues continues to inspire new genres. She seemed to enjoy it too.

@sadhu7191 7 ай бұрын

Wouldn't be surprised of singer studied blue music as a kid

@Greg-om2hb Жыл бұрын

The main appeal of DOOM is the timbre of the guitar and the trance-inducing repetition of dirge-like riffs. It's more engaging if you have consumed copious quantities of Cannabis. The effect is a combination of the visceral and the cerebral. STONER ROCK builds on this blues-based foundation, but adds much more energy and vitality, along with a psychedelic flavor. Kyuss, Orchid, Elder, The Sword, The Atomic Bitchwax, Priestess, High on Fire, Black Pyramid, Cauldron, Graveyard, Baroness, Graveyard, and Mastodon are all STONER ROCK bands worth exploring.

@Tommy-he7dx Жыл бұрын

I would add the monsters that are Pentagon, Fu Manchu, Acrimony, Celestial Season, Brant Bjork, Nebula......there really is a very long list of some quality bands in the Stoner Umbrella

@stephengibbons4771 Жыл бұрын

@@Tommy-he7dx Great shout out, Acrimony was such a great band, criminally underrated because they split up right as the Stoner Rock movement was really taking off. You don't hear them mentioned very often today. The rest of the bands listed by both above posters are also excellent and worth checking out.

@amirhossein8469 9 ай бұрын

Let's not forget Sleep, OM, Saint Vitus, Candlemass and Monolord.

@Skidtire 7 ай бұрын

@@amirhossein8469 Mephistofeles, Arteaga, Devils witches, and Las historias all are worth checking out.

@sadhu7191 7 ай бұрын

It was first metal music u could relax too and Rock too. Similair to trap rap in modern times

@Czern0bog Жыл бұрын

I have never wanted someone to listen to Dopesmoker more than I do right now

@Leaked_Dudes 4 ай бұрын

Hell yea

@Jam-J-Rambo 3 ай бұрын

PROCEEEEEDS THE WEEDIAN

@EvanSchatz 2 ай бұрын

@@Jam-J-RamboNAZARETH

@helojoe92 Жыл бұрын

I think you've put it perfectly with "Sound like an unstoppable bulldozer" ! When I'm at a Doom or Stonerrock concert, that's exactly what I want: Powerful guitar and bass soud that almost runs me over!

@TIGERSDFW Жыл бұрын

We used to call it "desert rock" in the early 90's

@elevenseven-yq4vu Жыл бұрын

Kyuss does this kind of "invincible bulldozer" sound and theme quite nicely in their (somewhat faster) song "Green Machine". The Kyuss Album that features "Green Machine", called "Blues For the Red Sun", also kind of buries the vocals and lead guitar in the mix. The "blues" and the "red sun" in the album's title, at least to my mind, also encapsulate quite well how the blues is still throbbing at the heart of doom rock/metal, even though it might be drowning in or buried under waves or dunes of amplification, distortion, and sustain, so there is also a sludgy feel to it's surface; and also, how stoner doom or desert rock often has that feverish, dusky, blurry, hypnotic, drowsy, dreamlike or nightmarish feel to it.

@wayneclifford9507 Жыл бұрын

That fog you mentioned is no doubt a big cloud of bong smoke. Nice work!

@stopnapoleon Ай бұрын

Yes the foggy feel is one of the things that made them so perfect - and no doubt it is intentional (or grew to be this way). That's unity of form and content. That's art 🚬

@richpeltier9519 Жыл бұрын

Coming out of the 80's, harder/heavier rock artists were fed up with the super compressed production styles, with center piece vocals and everything super clean. The mainstream got grunge, while those working in the dark corners (bands like this who take the predominance of their sound from a Sabbath song) responded with things like burying the vocals and guitar solos in the mix. Consider that the music is typically played VERY loud, which also benefits from that type of "music up front mix". I joke that every Sabbath song, became it's own subgenre of metal. This band is an example of when that joke is true. Electric Wizard were one of the best at this style stuff. I hear their music on the college station that I grew up listening to in the Bay Area, KFJC. They have a show on Saturday afternoons that plays this type of stuff and the DJ who curates the playslist has great taste and experience in this style of music. As always, excellent reaction. Thank you so much for sharing your insights into the music I love. 🤘🧙‍♂️🤘 Rich the Ancient Metal Beast

@yinoveryang4246 Жыл бұрын

Great job on your response. I'm not familiar with this band, but based on what I've just heard from their first album, it seems like they've taken sections of Black Sabbath songs and attempted to recapture the atmosphere in parts of them and worked them up into full songs. As you say, this quality got lost in heavily produced, clinical, and compressed music that deliberately or not, effectively conceals the musical abilities (or not) of band members. The atmosphere created by this music on the other hand, takes the listener to a dark and murky swamp, which could be interpreted as either a positive or a negative. It may not be the most captivating environment for some, as it requires sturdy footwear and patience

@wandajames143 Жыл бұрын

There is one band NO ONE on these channels talks about Beato etc... and that is KISS! as much as they may be an embarassment to some, you really can't ignore them and how they ruled the rock world in the mid 70's

@richpeltier9519 Жыл бұрын

@wanda James I was quite successful at ignoring Kiss. Still am. Best thing they ever recorded was the guitar solo to Detroit Rock City. It was written by Bob Ezrin. And maybe Beth, which is hardly a Kiss song.

@wandajames143 Жыл бұрын

@@richpeltier9519 I like Alive! for the energy. Destroyer's really good, especially if you were under ten with all the artwork and stuff! Rock n Roll over is really good too! great production from Eddie Kramer. It's hard to say since I was into it when I was eight year to like eleven. It still has a magical quality to it, cause I believed. Didnt sound so hot after puberty. Still a huge influence on Rock.. Kurt Cobain loved them as a kid. what more could a kid want? fire breathing, loud music, blood spitting?

@realityorfiction Жыл бұрын

I love when there's something I haven't heard before, it makes the video more interactive lol. Great first listen for all of us.

@phantomlord3280 Жыл бұрын

This is pretty crazy. Never would’ve thought to see this band on this channel! Super cool :)

@jameslong4362 5 ай бұрын

Doom metal saved my life. It gave me purpose in life. From playing this type of music, I have gained many friends who I would consider family. Electric Wizard and Ramesses have given me so much in life. Nice to hear your take on it. I watched the northern lights unfurl in Norway to this album

@karpczonisko 9 ай бұрын

This song is from early Electric Wizard, when they hadn't revolutionized stoner doom metal yet. On their debut album there is more of tripping, psychodelick rock music mixed with doom. But album Come My Fanatics and opening song Return Trip was o milestone for stoner doom, when they defined they sound. But stoner doom is not always dark, and sinister, sometimes it's more about just chilling and smoking dope.

@jamescooper-hope6930 2 ай бұрын

The opening riff of return trip is still reverberating to this day.

@Bigglesworthicus 10 ай бұрын

Doom Metal is what you get if you went back in time and gave a bunch of bluesmen some spiked acid in the presence of downtuned guitars and Matamp amplifiers.

@elevenseven-yq4vu Жыл бұрын

Amy, it is so great that you mentioned the challenge this kind of music throws out to the listener to scrape or crawl through the heavy layers "fog" or the boggy, sludgy, viscose, broth like heap or wall of sound that just keeps chugging along in the front with lots of distortion, amplification and sustain. I believe I that this is intentional. On the very first Black Sabbath album there is a song whose title fits this kind of stylised aural challenge perfectly: Beyond the Wall of Sleep.

@WayneKitching Жыл бұрын

I've never heard of this band or song before. Just from the title, I expected keyboard-heavy prog. Boy, was I wrong! 😂

@stephengibbons4771 Жыл бұрын

Now go listen to Funeralopolis by the same band :)

@johnprice6066 Жыл бұрын

A couple of musical insights regarding Sabbath and Electric Wizard: 1) Both bands use the pentatonic scales a lot, so there is the blues influence. 2) Both bands tune down 1.5 steps to C# standard tuning, and if they drop tune, it would be a low B. Glad that you are getting into some great heavy music! 😊

@KurtGAndersen Жыл бұрын

Electric Wizard tunes waaay lower than C#, B me thinks and some in A#/Bb. Sabbath use C# on some of their records - not all.

@celestial.disgrace Жыл бұрын

@@KurtGAndersen electric wizard tune is B, Sleep (another stoner band) tunes into C. Its funny, EW thought this wasn't as heavy as expected, and then they record "come my fanatics" which its the same tune, but its waaaaaaay heavy than this album.

@amirhossein8469 9 ай бұрын

Regarding the Doom Metal argument, since these guys and almost all the other artists in the stoner metal and doom metal genre have been mostly inspired by Black Sabbath (simply a Heavy Blues band at the core) and 70s psychedelic rock scene and tribute them quite often, it's not surprising that they try to sound as bluesy and heavy as possible. It's always like that in the genre. So glad that the Wizard is getting the recognition it deserves. Electric Wizard is not just a simple Doom Metal band. They're one of the icons in the Stoner Metal genre and they're also quite famous for the down-tuned turned up guitar sound. The vocal mix is intentional to make us delve into the riffs and melodies. Personally the moment he says "The wizard turned and spoke to us and, this is what he said" and then what the wizard said was a bluesy guitar solo still amazes me to this day.

@derangeddd 8 ай бұрын

I like his voice, in one way or another it ended up relaxing me, and also making me want a joint

@user-qi3rf8vl6c 7 ай бұрын

I love this band. I think of them sounding like smoke. They keep building and building and start spinning around until the room is so full, you almost want to run out the door.

@digitalblues01 Жыл бұрын

Yay Electric Wizard! Surprised but glad you liked it. With EW it's more about that guitar sound and slow chugging, not super fast stuff.

@DJskit24 9 ай бұрын

I literally just got this on Vinyl and was about to put it on and saw this.

@ehcmier Жыл бұрын

I love how inspiring it became through what was lacking! The desire to remaster the mix, rearrange it, and compose over it was delightful!

@waxwing9052 Жыл бұрын

This one is a surprise, I havent heard this for quite awhile, thank you.

@deesnutz42069 7 ай бұрын

Awesome. I've been a big stoner doom fan for decades and EW is probably my favorite band. Thanks for approaching them with an open mind.

@waldmeister0815 Жыл бұрын

Electric Wizard reaction? Some people would already count that as underground music. Welcome to Stoner Rock / Doom. They are definitively struggling through the fog in more way than one. :D On your "Unstoppable like a tank" comment I highly recommend "Bolt Thrower". But that would be Death Metal, so perhaps put it a little bit later on your journey playlist.

@motorcitytrains180 Жыл бұрын

I want to say that I have finally got to see all your videos and they are very interesting and lad is one of my countrymen since both my grandparents were both born in Romania can’t wait for some more different music

@tiagoinacio167 11 ай бұрын

just found your channel. very interesting. I'm a huge Electric Wizard fan. think you would have like Mountains of Mars, an instrumental song from the same album you are listening to this song. a bluesy psychedelic instrumental

@foxdenham Жыл бұрын

Great review that helped me re-evaluate my aversion to certain types of metal! Here's a highly recommended off the wall song (yet millions of people are currently playing it).I love it's genre bending use of classical, and story telling Rap) It's called 'Hi Ben' by REN. You won't regret it. (ps: hope baby and family are well x)

@Senban9 Жыл бұрын

"...I know it'll turn the instruments up too..." and that folks, is how they get you!

@gadpivs Жыл бұрын

Personal recommendation for this sort of thing: Pentagram - 20 Buck Spin, the original version from their self-titled original release, with the extended solo at the end. Really the peak of this sort of sound, long before Electric Wizard, in my opinion.

@durplehaze6484 7 ай бұрын

This is wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. I love Electric Wizard and I love the harp 🙏

@silentforest7147 Жыл бұрын

This is the best video I have come across in awhile.

@brianflynn5355 5 ай бұрын

I wish you were my music teacher when I was a wee lad 🤘

@cornchamber3 Жыл бұрын

Perhaps you can think of the highlighting of the rhythm and riffs ahead of the vocals and solos as the band members “riding” their train of thought. It’s meant to feel quite unconscious as they slip from section to section, and Electric Wizard in particular have put emphasis on journeying, both internally and externally. So we sort of expect the music to be in a daze as it progresses, not always the absolute focus of our attention.

@stpetie7686 Жыл бұрын

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I love the way this woman's mind works.

@phantomlord3280 Жыл бұрын

This is more so Stoner Metal rather than Doom metal :) hence the inhale and exhale in the beginning haha

@jayedwards4787 Жыл бұрын

It actually bears little resemblance to the defining doom metal groups , Trouble, Candlemass, Solitude Aeturnus ,, the latter two epic doom bands.

@brostenen Жыл бұрын

EW is their own genre....

@morior3027 6 ай бұрын

Watching people from "the other side" of music, listening and reacting to what Im used to listen just makes me love music more... I love doom rock/metal/stoner/blues. I just found this channel and discovered some rock history videos too, so im gonna watch these next. It would be VERY interesting to hear your reaction on Kyuss - Sleep - Om... as they are (in my opinion) the MOST melodic doom someone can find. Good recomendations would be ( Kyuss - Gardenia / Sleep - The Clarity / Om - State of non-return). Keep posting we love your reactions/ thoughts/ opinions and knowledge... thank you.

@spoitras Жыл бұрын

Good of you to crank the volume. Doom is very much a research of the most oppressive tone. The prime concept is the wall of sound that hits you live. From what you said, I think you'd prefer something like "Dear Lucifer" by Monolord.

@amusingtheamazing Жыл бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed this. I enjoyed listening to this for the first time with through your ears.! Thank you. Might I suggest Sleep - Dragonaut.

@GunnarCreutz Жыл бұрын

This was interesting! I had never heard of this band before.The Black Sabbath influence is obvious. I was asking myself how much the guitars was tuned down. I also noted a psychedelic vibe that reminded me of an old track by Hawkwind played at half speed.

@celestial.disgrace Жыл бұрын

they tune into B

@pottedrodenttube Жыл бұрын

This is a nice surprise. Black Sabbath was a blues style band before leaning more towards heavy metal, so it makes sense that you can hear it in the music. Doom is just a marketing genre, but it's more or less mainly categorized as heavy, usually slow, and a lot of fuzzy distortion, blues-oriented. It's not for everyone, and doesn't deviate far from what you've heard. Maybe a listen to Dopesmoker from the band Sleep is on the way.

@MetalGeek464 Жыл бұрын

I fell down the Greek stoner/desert rathole with Hazy Seas and Villagers of Ioannina City to name a few.

@Ronnie.Ericsson Жыл бұрын

Yes. We need an analysis of all 6 parts of Dopesmoker.

@jayedwards4787 Жыл бұрын

Boy is nearly every word of that wrong .

@howardzdenek98 Жыл бұрын

One important thing to understand about heavy metal music is it was born in factories. Black Sabbath on their early albums were imitating factory sounds from the machines they worked with like metal shears. Tommy iomi from Black Sabbath lost the tips of two fingers just before Black Sabbath first tour on a metal shear in a factory. Afterwards he put rubber tips on his fingers which helped him produces his iconic sound.

@gradypatterson1948 Жыл бұрын

As you mentioned re-recording with more blues-based vocals, I got them mental picture/audio of a sultry female lounge jazz singer laying on top of the piano singing it 🙂 This song is very heavy with bi-tones (root + 5th + 8th - commonly called "power-chords") and the triplet "chugging" feel: in this case, the modal ambiguity allows for some playing with both minor and major 3rds in the intro melodic line - something I've always found intriguing. As you noted, the use of the short-long triplet feel gives a sense of movement - possible more specifically travel - hoof-beats, train wheels, road noise are all evoked for me. While I'm not a huge Black Sabbath fan, I do enjoy their early works - particularly their second album "Paranoid", which I think is their best: Electric Wizard definitely captures a lot of that feel - they could easily be mistaken for a tribute band if they weren't writing their own new material! The vocalist is not a clone of Ozzy Osbourne, but he definitely captures much of Ozzy's growly and deep tones, which might well be the hardest aspect of early Black Sabbath to emulate. All in all, I find them a well done continuation of the style of early Black Sabbath, while remaining more than just a "clone" or cover band. I'll probably go find some more of their music to check out 🙂

@annatraustadottir4387 Жыл бұрын

I didn't recognize the band since I'm not much into Metal but I really liked the song. I liked the heavy trance-like drone going through the song and the psychedelic elements that emerged in the more "quiet" parts. Unlike Amy I liked the not-powerful singing there.

@elevenseven-yq4vu Жыл бұрын

By all means check out the album "The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull" by a band called Earth, then! It features lots of trance-like drone, sometimes heavy, sometimes more ethereal, but always very mellow and very, very slow. It is the perfect kind of music to soothe me, help me meditate or empty my mind during bouts of depressive over-thinking, or simply to calm down when I am agitated or suffering from insomnia. While certainly being heavy, it does not have the cutting attack of much other heavy metal styles, but relies rather on sustain and a tonally warm kind of distortion. Very beautiful music, remindful of summer dusk.

@annatraustadottir4387 Жыл бұрын

@@elevenseven-yq4vu Will do

@Fedja-2210 Жыл бұрын

Oh wow. It's my favorite Stoner Doom Metal Band. I'm surprised that Virgin Rock picked it up. I guess it's something different spice of music then others. Stoner Doom Metal is more about groove and a vibe of a old horror film or like being drunk or even stoned and relaxing through a vibe. Most of those bands are inspired by the 70s blues rock and psychedelic bands. This band was experimented with a avant - garde type style from the album Let us Pray with the track Night of the Shape. I was kinda confused and surprised by that. But appreciated the will to try something different.

@securityscorpion8687 Жыл бұрын

THANX AMY🖤...ELECTRIC WIZARD RULES.

@bouncingczechs 4 ай бұрын

Just discovered your channel, and I love your analysis! Would love to see your opinion on Neurosis - Stones from the sky!

@mickeyhank Жыл бұрын

Such an homage to Black Sabbath. I respect the love they're showing to their idols. I didn't find the piece particularly moving or interesting though it was solid in its Sabbath-ian way. Loved how thoughtful you were, Amy, about it -- better than I could have done.

@chillepalmerz Жыл бұрын

Listen to the albums Dopethrone and Witchcult Today. I don’t even like metal but they’re fantastic

@mickeyhank Жыл бұрын

@@chillepalmerz Cool, good to hear this! I will take your counsel....

@jayedwards4787 Жыл бұрын

SABBATH were great … These guys suck

@JimmySans 10 ай бұрын

Theee Wiiizaaard

@stoneyjay5417 4 ай бұрын

the way she explained it invincible like a tank i loved that this song gives me power to go on in my worst of days and illness i belive its to symoblize the monotony of life

@estebansantanaloria9624 7 күн бұрын

Fucking LOVE that bass solo

@jay-remedy-plz Жыл бұрын

Oh I thought you would despise this song. Much love for hearing it through and dicing it up for us. My occasional go to sound if I’m multitasking, trying to focus on something other than the music itself.

@Jam-J-Rambo 3 ай бұрын

@4:58 Her first time ever, listening to Electric Wizard, and already wants to turn it up! 💪🏻 Lady, you're on the right path!

@elevenseven-yq4vu Жыл бұрын

I have an album by Black Wizard ("Dopethrone"), and while there is a bit of a Black Sabbath influence in their music on this album, it never occurred to me that the band name might refer to these two songs by Black Sabbath. It is interesting that they took exactly these two songs as a reference point. Both songs are from the classic Black Sabbath era, the early phase with Ozzy Osbourne as their (nasal) singer. These two songs open up quite a spectrum: "Electric Funeral" is complex, fast, very doomy, builds up in intensity over the course of the song, and it has very dark lyrics, echoing the real nuclear threat during the cold war era. "The Wizard" on the other hand is more upbeat in tone, a cute little ditty, quite simple, played in the typical Black Sabbath style (heavily featuring distortion and such), but at heart it is almost a typical rock'n'roll or boogie song - I might be exaggerating (only) a little, but a strong "roots rock" influence is certainly there. Also, the lyrics are actually not so dark, more fantasy styled, and while they never allude to what kind of magic the titular wizard actually spreads, the music does not imply any harmful kind of influence on his part. I heard that some of the other Electric Wizard albums are closer to Black Sabbath's style than "Dopethrone", but that one is very harsh, aggressive and monotonous at times. It also piles on the distortion thickly. Compared to "Dopethrone", Black Sabbath sounded like choir boys. The album name, as ever so often in heavy metal, inspired another band to take it on as their moniker.

@Ugly_Giant_Bag_of_Mostly_Water Жыл бұрын

Yes with "Close to the edge" and " And you and I" - a must listen in your muscial journey of (prog) rock.

@mikes9305 Жыл бұрын

And Siberian Khatru! 😄

@SyBernot Жыл бұрын

Something I have never listened to!!! I can taste the Black Sabbath in this. Reminiscent of Black Sabbath (the song), but also feels like a slowed down Gnome, Wenceslas. The artwork in my head listening to this is Frazetta's Dark Kingdom. Forward moving, maybe a trudge, but driving forward. It starts slow, builds, then drops to a walk, a bit like like an actors side conversation at the camera to explain what's going on then we flip back to the action, when it's done it goes back to that kind'a sultry beat, subversive, it's fresher now, the vocals are more pushing, more tin, more grit, and we build... 18:46 THATS where this should have gone...But it didn't so we are back to driving this toon in one of 3 directions, to completion, off a cliff, or into a dark alley that no one comes out of, they chose the latter. It just spins off into space. I don't feel satisfied. Doom metal because of the downbeat and choice of chords (flat/minor, IDK I'm not a musician) Overall I get a Black Sabbath vibe with a touch of Leonard Skinner Good Times, Bad Times, overall Gnome. I enjoyed this journey, for me Electric Wizard is a new thing. Don't love it but there it is, in all it's glory.

@phantomlord3280 Жыл бұрын

The first album is the best imo. definitely worth checking out bro :)

@shiva1742 Жыл бұрын

Wow, we seem to have ventured far off the main route, the side roads, and down some solitary road into sub, sub genre town.

@caseytaylor2496 9 ай бұрын

Gnome only runs because The Wiz walked! Wild you've heard of Gnome but not The Wiz... what a world!

@arferbargel Жыл бұрын

I saw the video title and immediately thought "oh, no...." but I was pleasantly surprised at how much Amy was able to engage with the piece (also love the idea of a saxophone in doom, why not?) Is she now ready for "Dopesmoker", folks? Joking aside, I think an important element of doom that can't be appreciated listening to recordings is the extent to which it is "body music" - slow tempi, extreme volume, lots of unison lines and riffs, etc are all essential to the physically transcendent experience of a great doom show.

@stephengibbons4771 Жыл бұрын

Dopesmoker might be biting off a little more than she can chew lol. An analysis of one of Sleep's other (slightly shorter) songs would be most welcome, though.

@thomasgrubb1906 Жыл бұрын

@@stephengibbons4771 that’s exactly what I was thinking. I’m the one who got this song reviewed and I’m looking for my next one right now. My thought was Aquarian by sleep what do you think

@stephengibbons4771 Жыл бұрын

@@thomasgrubb1906 That's a good choice for sure.

@goldenboy140 Жыл бұрын

@@thomasgrubb1906 How bout some Melvins. Roman Dog Bird or Honey Bucket

@xBlackShadowsZz 8 ай бұрын

As expected from electric wizard and a true classical musician

@TheDoctorFlay Жыл бұрын

I am confident you would like other bands in this genre such as Candlemass and Cathedral.

@wandajames143 Жыл бұрын

Robert plant had a great name for this stuff. Deep Sabbath

@randalladams7692 Жыл бұрын

You're too cool you always rock and your spot on the music love doom metal you can hear a allot of sabbath in it it's were metal started good job

@phantomlord3280 Жыл бұрын

I’d recommend checking out Bolt Thrower! I’d recommend their song “the IV crusade” very very musical in many aspects while being very tastefully being metal :)

@MetalGeek464 Жыл бұрын

The Emperor of Mankind would be pleased with this selection. \m/\m/

@theadventuresofjericho3856 8 ай бұрын

Check out Legalize Drugs and Murder by Electric Wizard next please! I love your analysis of Doom Metal.

@notthistimenet Жыл бұрын

Life is so short, and there is too much rock.

@ianstewart7605 Жыл бұрын

I enjoyed that because you so obviously did. For me, it evoked echoes of 'War Pigs' from Black Sabbath twenty years before.

@XeradonYU Жыл бұрын

I would love to see your reaction to Grai - In the Arms of Mara. It's unique, versatile, hard rock/folklore blade, it has lots of artistic qualities and talents (violin and flute standout the most)🙂

@billsenior213 Жыл бұрын

Would love to hear how she reacts to 2 different versions of “You Keep me Hanging on” by the Supremes and Vanilla Fudge. Or even “Elenor Rigby” by the Beatles and Vanilla Fudge. Think she would be interested in the different takes….

@mikes9305 Жыл бұрын

Rod Stewart also did a plaintive version of that in 1977.

@ELVENPANT 8 ай бұрын

master piece

@orestisoro1899 8 ай бұрын

I would love to hear her opinion on the Heavy Psychedelic days of Monster Magnet Really enjoyable video

@Hartlor_Tayley Жыл бұрын

I like the sound of it. Sounds live and Not fussed over. I think part of the effect of the vocals being hard to distinguish is because the guitars are playing in the vocal range and competing with the singer, this was a big no no back in my day. This song is all about the doomy riffage. I enjoyed this song and your thoughts are always interesting.

@mp6713 Жыл бұрын

Doom Metal makes me happy!

@mirandak3273 Жыл бұрын

Amy’s going to start wearing black, have lots of silver, &!go heavy with black eyeliner.

@rw100 9 ай бұрын

If you fancy listening to something in between this and the Blues, you could check out a band called Goatsnake

@danielfenna-moran21 Жыл бұрын

You should analyse the strokes. The front man Julian Casablancas studied classical music theory and you can definitely see elements of this in their post-punk style!

@marcblachman2322 Жыл бұрын

I saw Candlemass mentioned. 100% agree. I think Amy would find something to like in their music. Samarithan or anything from Tales of Creation, esp with Messiah singing.

@incredibleXMan Жыл бұрын

I recommend you look at some 80s indie, synthpop and post punk bands. I'd suggest The Smiths, Depeche Mode and New Order to start.

@Andromansis 3 ай бұрын

Also before I forget here are two separate acoustic implementations of their sound : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9N-nLl9qazcYps.html this one is really novel because of the instrument used : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pMtkd6iklZ2mpqM.html and yes, the bluesy nature really does shine through without that wall of sound in front

@ThisTrainIsLost Жыл бұрын

These analysis videos are all wonderful but in this case I would have preferred a look at Roy Wood's Wizard (which can almost be taken as overkill since Roy could record an album all by himself--see "Boulders" and "Mustard").

@neildmonte8786 9 ай бұрын

Electric Wizard were called Eternal but changed their name after discovering that there was already an English girl band called Eternal :D

@erictallant4965 10 ай бұрын

EW is a very, very dark band. The self titled track is very tame compared to the rest of their catalog.

@punker-gamer-trucker-guy Жыл бұрын

The buried muddy vocals is definitely artistic decision. Surely they're going to play you some shoegaze bands like coctaeu twins or my bloody valentine. Kind of the same thing except guitars are louder and more reverb and delay effects applied to them and oftentimes the vocals are even more buried. Doom is dirty and sludgy while shoegaze is sometimes brighter and more psychedelic.

@oatmeal710 11 ай бұрын

should listen to their song supercoven, great buildup and killer guitar tone

@allowitfam1257 9 ай бұрын

I wish i have a classical music teacher to discuss Electric wizard with. Too much swag in this chanel 🤘🏻now do Mayhem de mysteries dom satanas

@JAMMA68 10 ай бұрын

Nice haha... Pls i want to see reaction with "Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide ❤

@motionlessmusic Жыл бұрын

A review of a “Henry Cow” song would be interesting for you to do a review of. While they are a little too niche, it would be interesting to see you react to them since they are a lesser known progressive rock/ free jazz band who is known for their experimentation. Every one in the band is an absolute genius so it would be cool for you to pick apart and break down one of their songs. “Nirvana for Mice”, “Amygdala”, “Living In The Heart of The Beast”, “Ruins”, or “History & Prospects: Industry” are all good ones.

@vonVile Жыл бұрын

Amy, next do the best yet very underrated stoner hard rock band Monster Magnet. They have been around since 1989 and singer/song writer Dave Wyndorf is a lyrical genius. They are best known for the songs "Negasonic Teenage Warhead" and "Spacelord." They even did a cover of Black Sabbath's "Into The Void" that is better than the original. As for song suggedtions; "Last Patrol", "End Of Time", "Hallucination Bomb" or "Mindless Ones". PS - As for real Doom Metal do Pentagram's "Be Forewarned" (1972). The band is one the pioneers one of the genre.

@spybot6697 Жыл бұрын

You mean Macabre, from the Be Forewarned/Lazy Lady 1972 single?

@MetalSamurai99 Жыл бұрын

I keep hoping that Karl will explore the idea that every advance in rock music is a reaction to what came before. It’s either a rejection of previous sounds, like Grunge and Doom are a reaction against the clean, processed sound of many 80s rock bands. Or it takes an earlier idea and turns it up to 11, again like Doom saying “what if Sabbath was slower and louder?” In this case they mixed in some of the psychedelia of Hawkwind as well. Personally I’d probably have chosen some Candlemass to exemplify this genre, and maybe not yet. What I’d really like to see is a good family tree of rock genres and subgenres that explains how nu-metal, math rock, grunge, groove metal, prog, rockabilly, melodic death, glam, djent and all the many -core genres are related and how they take ideas from earlier forms or from other music genres altogether (classical, folk, jazz, country) and blend or invert them.

@adamelliott18 Жыл бұрын

You know, it's ok to hear some obscure and or B quality tunes because we had to hear some of those rock songs radio/bars/friends etc. One learns to discern good from meh and develop one's personal taste.

@WiserInTime Жыл бұрын

Are the in-depth videos a thing of the past? I miss them.

@thomassharmer7127 Жыл бұрын

Well, an 'in-depth' musical study of this one would be rather difficult! 😏

@brostenen Жыл бұрын

15:57 And onwards.... That was exactly what the wizard said....

@zakrivas2218 5 ай бұрын

wonderful video, should try and look into dunwich which is very groovy and i reckon you'll love it, but also check out funeralopolis and see the band to their full extent

@matthewatwood8641 3 ай бұрын

I think that chunky rhythm is you leaving Earth on the back of a dragon with a wizard riding through dimensions in deepest space. At first, almost all you hear is that rhythm, until the colossal Cosmic forces swirling around you start to penetrate your consciousness, and then you break through, and all of that multi-dimensional richness & wildness penetrates your consciousness. When the wizard speaks, your mind lets go and enters a whole new realm of awareness. Then we return to the chunky rhythm as you and your friends, having been to this magical place with the wizard and experiencing enlightenment and profound personal transformation, continue on your journey through the universe, undulating with the rhythm of the cosmos that you now understand yourself to be a part of. It's psychedelic af. I highly recommend ingesting about 500 mics of good, clean acid, let it start kicking in, then put this on. Even better, immediately after the song ends, put on some Charlie Patton or Robert Johnson to bring your soul back down to earth. This song is definitely more whimsical than most other Electric Wizard songs, which are extremely heavy.

@IVANdtk117 Жыл бұрын

one of the best metal bands in history imo, they were really innovators for the time, I'd recommend to listen more of them! specially the album "Dopethrone"