In honor of Electric Wizard's recent induction into the Decibel Magazine "Hall Of Fame", which was just awarded to their milestone album Dopethrone from 2000, we've got all of their crucial deluxe re-issues available through Crucial Blast for you doomhounds that are missing these mighty platters from yer library. Repackaged in digipak packaging with enhanced and expanded artwork, brand new liner notes, great photos captured during each album's respective era, and bonus tracks, these Electric Wizard reissues are essential for any real fan of dope-huffing, spine crushing British DOOM.

It's not really an Electric Wiz album, but Pre-Electric Wizard 1989-1994 is nonetheless a crucial document that fans of the band are going to find

pretty indispensible. ESPECIALLY if you were really into the early 90's/Peaceville/UK crust movement that spawned some of the gnarliest doom/sludge metal

sounds ever. The music on this disc comes from just that era for the most part, and documents the rare recordings of the three bands that EW mainman Justin

Oborn played in and which sowed the seeds that would eventually grow into the satanic drug doom majesty of Electric Wizard.

The saga starts way back in 1989 with Lord Of Putrefaction, a gang of British metal kids fronted by a young Justin Oborn and inspired by bands like Carcass,

Celtic Frost, Bolt Thrower, and Napalm Death. The only official Lord Of Putrefaction release was a split album with Mortal Remains on Nuclear Gore Records,

and the four tracks from that release are presented here, murky, muddy psychedelic deathsludge with freaked out guitar leads streaking across lethargic death

metal syrup, deep grunted vocals, lots of FX on everything. These songs are AWESOME, ultra heavy drug doom a la Disembowelment and Winter.

Lord Of Putrefaction went through a number of linuep changes though, and eventually changed it's name to Thy Grief Eternal, with the three members of LOP

shifting gears and switching to an even slower style of doom. Their only recordings were found on the On Blackened Wings demo, and these three

tracks are total doom-death, ultra heavy, ultra slow funereal sludge crawl a la Thergothon, insanely heavy with Oborn's vocals less fucked-up and trippy than

with his previous band, but still serving up a monstrous mindbending doom assault.

Again, as the three band members from Lord Of Putrefaction and Thy Grief Eternal continues to develop their sound, they opted to change their name yet

again, this time to the simpler Eternal. And it's here that the band seems to have upped their intake of mind-altering drugs and Sabbath LPs, creating a

brand of grooving, gnarly doom directly descended from Sabbath but heavier, darker, laced with horror movie samples and trippy psychedelia and shifts into

bonecrushing riffage, setting the stage for what would become Electric Wizard. Eternal released a demo in 1993 called Lucifer's Children, and it's a

direct link to Electric Wizard's self-titled debut, stomping Sabbath worship all the way (there's even a cover of "Electric Funeral" here), and with the

sixteen minute space-doom epic "Chrono-Naut" that would later become an Electric Wizard song.

Obviously essential to Electric Wizard fans and extreme doom diehards, packaged in a slick digipack with a booklet loaded with photos, old flyers, liner

notes, demo cover artwork, and more!