Review: In the honest words of vocalist/guitarist Jus Oborn - "We'd been gigging for two years at that point, around America three times, going to Japan and Australia, and we were sounding pretty good by the end of it. When the pandemic happened, we thought, 'Fuck it, maybe we'll never play again.' So we went into the jam room and played the songs to get them on tape to capture how we were playing at the time." That's essentially the no frills summation of Black Magic Rituals & Perversions Vol. 1; a live album performed in front of no audience, recorded directly to a 16-track tape machine in the crypt of a rehearsal space on the outskirts of the English Westcountry that Electric Wizard call home. An unbridled dose of heaving, homegrown psych-tinged doom-sludge from the British counterparts of contemporaries such as Eyehategod, Sleep, and Bongzilla.
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