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

[@SylviusTheMad]

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

[@hellinterface6721]

She likes it

[@jameshatley9390]

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]

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

[@richpeltier9519]

Excellent observation! 🤘🧙‍♂️🤘

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

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]

@@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]

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

[@rohmarts]

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

[@xbenci]

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

[@brianflynn5355]

Yes 🤘

[@russellstall169]

The key to enjoying electric wizard tbh

[@foret4a874]

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

[@stephengibbons4771]

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]

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

[@sekritdokumint9326]

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]

Same. I found them during thunder storm on pandora

[@un_nownmusic]

The slowest and heaviest of them all

[@TheGrooovyDude]

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

[@BLACKLAVENDERfilmscores]

Bro I'm fuckin cooked 😂😂😂😂💀⚰️🏴‍☠️

[@BoddahOnAcid]

@@BLACKLAVENDERfilmscoreswere all fucking obliterated 💀

[@jillimyjilikers2036]

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]

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

[@Greg-om2hb]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@Skidtire]

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

[@sadhu7191]

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

[@helojoe92]

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]

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

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

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]

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

[@stopnapoleon]

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 🚬

[@Czern0bog]

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

[@Leaked_Dudes]

Hell yea

[@Jam-J-Rambo]

PROCEEEEEDS THE WEEDIAN

[@EvanSchatz]

​@@Jam-J-RamboNAZARETH

[@martinbressette4207]

My dude!

[@RealityMFiction]

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]

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

[@richpeltier9519]

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]

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]

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]

@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]

@@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?

[@jameslong4362]

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]

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]

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

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

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.

[@digitalblues01]

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.

[@ehcmier]

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

[@DJskit24]

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

[@waxwing9052]

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

[@chrisFarmer-x4i]

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.

[@johnprice6066]

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]

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]

@@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.

[@cornchamber3]

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.

[@chiohaesendonckx8971]

so happy you liked it!! 🤟 electric wizard has a lot of different interesting songs with clear blues roots, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that WE NEED MORE PSYCHEDELIC STONER/DOOM REACTIONS!

[@stpetie7686]

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

[@Senban9]

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

[@amirhossein8469]

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.

[@gadpivs]

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.

[@motorcitytrains180]

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

[@Bigglesworthicus]

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.

[@tiagoinacio167]

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

[@brianflynn5355]

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

[@evilinterlude]

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

[@WayneKitching]

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

[@stephengibbons4771]

Now go listen to Funeralopolis by the same band :)

[@silentforest7147]

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

[@foxdenham]

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)

[@morior3027]

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]

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.

[@SevenTrine]

Bingo on the horror movie vibes. There's a definite love of old-school horror throughout the genre.

[@howardzdenek98]

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.

[@Jam-J-Rambo]

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

[@durplehaze6484]

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

[@pottedrodenttube]

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]

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

[@Standardkonto]

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

[@jayedwards4787]

Boy is nearly every word of that wrong .

[@waldmeister0815]

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.

[@xBlackShadowsZz]

As expected from electric wizard and a true classical musician

[@annatraustadottir4387]

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]

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]

@@elevenseven-yq4vu Will do

[@mickeyhank]

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]

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

[@mickeyhank]

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

[@jayedwards4787]

SABBATH were great … These guys suck

[@martinbressette4207]

That beginning sounded a LOT like the beginning of Sleep's Holy Mountain. Which I love.

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

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.

[@GunnarCreutz]

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]

they tune into B

[@securityscorpion8687]

THANX AMY🖤...ELECTRIC WIZARD RULES.

[@Metalmitch72]

First heard Electric Wizard in 1995,had their demo. Friend of mine saw them live in New Orleans.

[@stoneyjay5417]

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

[@SyBernot]

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]

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

[@shiva1742]

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]

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

[@lordvlygar2963]

22:00 Doom Metal has a few offshoot genres. Stoner Metal, as was just heard here, is more about fuzz, thick riffs, mid-pace, blues and psychedelic characteristics. Sludge Metal is a higher tempo, more harsh riffs, tends to have screaming vocals, and eschews the psychedelics. There are plenty of bands that fuse those two offshoots; Stoner Sludge.

[@Fedja-2210]

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.

[@JimmySans]

Theee Wiiizaaard

[@amusingtheamazing]

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

[@mrln247]

Hopefully you give the Acoustic Wizard, cover a go. I bloody love it.

[@TheDoctorFlay]

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

[@gradypatterson1948]

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 🙂

[@Andromansis]

Also before I forget here are two separate acoustic implementations of their sound : kzbin.info/www/bejne/p56xmomCeauraMk this one is really novel because of the instrument used : kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJaXdXipZZx1rNE and yes, the bluesy nature really does shine through without that wall of sound in front

[@arferbargel]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@goldenboy140]

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

[@jay-remedy-plz]

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.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

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.

[@phantomlord3280]

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]

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

[@estebansantanaloria9624]

Fucking LOVE that bass solo

[@rw100]

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

[@billsenior213]

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]

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

[@randalladams7692]

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

[@notthistimenet]

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

[@marcblachman2322]

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.

[@deesnutz42069]

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.

[@brostenen]

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

[@JasonCone]

The common phrase for that "pushed back" sound is "buried in the mix."

[@gtrgar4561]

I have a few thoughts on this song. The genre is more in line with Stoner Rock then Death Metal. I found the arrangement of the song more interesting than the Death Metal bands my son listened to in the mid 2000's (bands like Children of Bodom and As I Lay Dying) with the Cookie Monster vocals. The song "Electric Wizard" 4 distinct sections: The section at 3:10m into song where the instruments drop out then the guitar is panned left, then drums return panned to the right then the song returns back to full band that leads to a guitar solo that uses a wah-wah effect. At 4:12m, a new section starts with a new bass riff (a repeating descending chromatic line), then, at 4:41m the drums (kind of Jazzy) come in, then the vocal, then a mellow guitar solo (bluesy/jazzy). The final section starts with the core riff losing the triplet feel, a short vocal then a psychedelic, Pink Floydian outro , ala Echoes from the album Meddle. Overall, the drums were solid (i.e. not thrashy) and supported the song very well. I believe the guitars and bass were tuned down 3 whole steps. The interesting thing, is the lead vocalist used a very clean tone. There was no distortion or screams or histrionics. The vocalist sang the story of the Wizard the flew in on the back of a dragon to take the listener on a 'trip'. An earlier commenter talked about the band Vanilla Fudge taking some pop songs then playing darker/slower versions. While Amy was reacting to the song, I was thinking, what would "Electric Wizard" sound like if it was sped up. I found the video on youtube and played it back at 1.5 times speed. To my 'classic rock' ingrained ears, it sounded better and the vocals were clearer. Cheers! 🎸🤘😎🤘

[@ThisTrainIsLost]

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").

[@wandajames143]

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

[@oatmeal710]

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

[@orestisoro1899]

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

[@IVANdtk117]

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"

[@ianstewart7605]

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

[@phantomlord3280]

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

[@jayedwards4787]

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

[@brostenen]

EW is their own genre....

[@danielfenna-moran21]

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!

[@mirandak3273]

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

[@XeradonYU]

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)🙂

[@theadventuresofjericho3856]

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

[@mp6713]

Doom Metal makes me happy!

[@incredibleXMan]

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.

[@adamelliott18]

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.

[@punker-gamer-trucker-guy]

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.

[@erictallant4965]

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

[@bouncingczechs]

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

[@allowitfam1257]

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

[@caseytaylor2496]

Nobody told this lady to smoke a 6 paper joint first?

[@WiserInTime]

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

[@thomassharmer7127]

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

[@MetalSamurai99]

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.

[@Chamomileable]

Doom metal is generally characterized by very low tempo and an emphasis on triads and long vamps on the same themes. Drone doom is actually SLOWER and sometimes gets as slow as only a couple dozen BPM. It's the extreme of the thought that slower can be heavier.

[@WindmillChef]

I do hear a few nodes in the music that reference, are an updated times homage to Black Sabath's style and the singer also stylistically mimics Ozzy Osbourne. Now at the risk of sounding like the professional critics whom Amy quoted of the early 60's about The Beatles, this sounds like 15 year olds trying to create music after 2 music lessons, the guitarist noodled around in his bedroom when he returned home after his second official guitar lesson with a teacher, this is the riff, the bars, the motive, whatever he came up with. He did find that "gain" dial on the amp though. Having said that I did like it more than other music of the genre, a genre that I don't like. I did enjoy some of the section changes, the second guitar solo (there were 4!), they are not above using electronics and it wasn't a competitive rehearsal display of technical skill. And in modern music being technically over able is not a requirement to make the art. The first Beatles album that Amy is covering is elementary in simplicity, U2's Bono once famously stated "we were a band before any of us could play an instrument", and we know what they've created. But what I miss in comparison to The Beatles is a direction, I hear no passionate conviction of any kind and they seem overly content to make music that can be easily boxed in a genre, with just a tweak and twirk it sounds like many others. Not my liking but not all that bad either, it could be worse ( how would one like people saying of one's music that it could be worse?) and all is good.

[@elevenseven-yq4vu]

One thing about (parts of) doom metal is that it often meanders through different styles (blues, jazz, drone, heavy metal, psychedelic rock, death metal, shoegaze, black metal,...) but ties it all together by that chugging, heavy, inert to slowish, monolithic and sometimes also quite monotonous rhythmicality. Another thing about doom metal is that it is often visceral rather than cerebral, and also quite stubborn, one-track-minded, straightforward, persevering, locked in on a "caveman" groove. Both aspects can be found in the portmanteau title (meandering + neanderthal) of an album by Torche: "Meanderthal". While Torche might not be your typical run-of-the-mill doom band, the doom element in their somewhat eclectic style is being featured prominently.