Any first-time listener of this album will immediately understand the Black Sabbath influences of which Electric Wizard plays to their strengths, while it avoids sounding derivative and adds a new spin to the doom metal subgenre.Ĥ. The crushing riffs are paired with Tim Bagshaw’s fuzzy yet menacing bass tones, which adds to the overall uneasy feeling of the record. From start to finish, the album is jam-packed with Jus Oborn’s disgusting, low-tuned, chromatic guitar sludge alongside his bleak nihilistic lyrics that were a new brand of heaviness - even by 2000s standards. Metal is no stranger to having projects come from a bad place in the artist’s psyche, and “Dopethrone” by English doom metal band Electric Wizard is a perfect encapsulation of that. Honorable Mentions: “Iowa” by Slipknot, “The Way of All Flesh” by Gojira, and “The Blackening” by Machine Head. Here, I’ve ranked the five greatest metal albums of the 21st century. At the turn of the 21st century, metal had arguably its commercial peak in the 2000s, followed by a decline in the 2010s. Thirty years after the group’s debut, the genre blew up and had its golden age in the 1980s. Ever since Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath decided to experiment with blues-inspired guitar riffs and lots of distortion, he inadvertently created one of the most loved and hated music genres of all time.
Record Label credits: Listenable records, Roadrunner, Volcano, Southern Lord, Maverick recordsįew genres of music have inspired as much devotion or disgust as metal.
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