“Did we do drugs in the studio? Of course. What could be better than three or four bongs before you start recording?”: how stoner-doom kings Electric Wizard made the classic Dopethrone album

Electric Wizard standing outside a stone church.

Electric Wizard are the sultans of sludge-infused doom, with their reputation built on on such landmark albums as 1997’s Come My Fanatics… and 2000’s epic Dopethrone. In 2007, mainman Jus Oborn took a break from the bong to look back on the making of the latter record and the epic weed intake that went into its creation.

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