''Time to Die'' is the eighth studio album by English
stoner/
doom metal
Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other heavy metal genres.K. Kahn-Harris, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'' ...
band
Electric Wizard
Electric Wizard are an English doom metal band from Dorset. The band formed in 1993 and have recorded nine studio albums, two of which have been considered genre landmarks: ''Come My Fanatics…'' (1997) and ''Dopethrone'' (2000). Electric Wiz ...
, released on 29 September 2014.
It is their debut on
Spinefarm
Spinefarm Records is a Finnish independent record label focusing mainly on heavy metal artists. It is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group.
History
Spinefarm Records was originally founded in 1990 by Riku Pääkkönen as a mail-order distrib ...
, having left
Rise Above. The album is the first since 2002’s Let Us Prey to feature founding member Mark Greening on drums.
The album is the longest Electric Wizard studio album to date (excluding bonus tracks and the added silence at the end of ''
Dopethrone
''Dopethrone'' is a doom metal album by the British band Electric Wizard. It was released on September 25, 2000, by Rise Above Records. Following the release and tour of their previous studio album '' Come My Fanatics...'', the group was asked ...
'').
Track listing
Personnel
Electric Wizard
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Jus Oborn
Justin Oborn is a British musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist and lyricist of Electric Wizard, an English doom metal band from Dorset, which Oborn co-founded in 1993. Prior to forming Electric Wizard, he was a m ...
– guitar, vocals, bass
* Liz Buckingham – guitar
* Mark Greening – drums,
Hammond organ
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Guest musicians
* Count Orlof – bass
Production
* Chris Fielding – mixing
*
Jus Oborn
Justin Oborn is a British musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist and lyricist of Electric Wizard, an English doom metal band from Dorset, which Oborn co-founded in 1993. Prior to forming Electric Wizard, he was a m ...
– production
Charts
References
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2014 albums
Electric Wizard albums