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Based on 4 reviews
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2000 Ratings: #11All Time: #162
September 25, 2000 / Release Date
LP / Format
Rise Above / Label
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Critic Reviews

100
AllMusic

Electric Wizard finally returned to action in the year 2000. The resulting dirge masterpiece, Dopethrone, delivers walls of sound so dense that at first they seem too big to fit into your ears.

90
Still Listening

Over two decades after its initial release, Electric Wizard’s Dopethrone maintains its status as a defining album within stoned, sludge, and doom metal, solidifying the Dorset band as one of the greats.

60
Kerrang!
ThrowBackG
90

"Most of us were stuck in some drug addiction or alcoholism at the time, and it was just pure hate. It was us against the world, and we just wanted to make the most disgusting, foul, putrid record that anyone has ever recorded. We camped out at the studio, so it was literally just wake up, consume as much fucking drugs as possible, and then just start jamming."

-Jus Oborn

Non-review:

Me and my old man have some fond memories of cruising around town in various cars. The most iconic ... read more

RobiBlueForever
99

To say this album is brutal would be a massive understatement. This project is unrelenting and will not compromise at all. It’s an incredibly entrancing experience, with the heaviest and most punishing drum patterns I’ve heard and the most aggressive riffs imaginable. Nothing comes close to this in the metal universe

grave
93

Stoner and doom metal at it’s finest

This album is chaotic. Feeling like straight out of an apocalyptic hellscape, Dopethrone commands this atmosphere to near perfection with this mucky and worn-out production style that is a perfect fit for an album of this nature.

You can really feel the doom and gloom of this album by how rusty everything sounds here. With this minimalist production that sort of compresses the sounds around it so that sounds start mixing together and makes this whole ... read more

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Surge9104
95

Good album to masturbate to. Album cover goes hard too. Sounds good too. Uhhhh I don't have anything else to add give it a listen

theo_n_666
100

Fuck it, this is a perfect album.
Dopethrone is definitely among the heaviest projects of all time. The production is so perfectly nasty, dirty and raw, you can't wish for a more fitting production in Stoner Doom Metal. The riffs are absolutely disgusting, they are incredibly sludgy but groovy at the same time.
And if you may think it's a no brain Metal album with just fat riffs, you are mistaken. The songwriting is nuts, the way the songs are building up and emerge into a wall of ... read more

100

ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE ALBUM....
this peak one of the most perfect doom metal albums ever made and easily one of the greatest metal albums of the 2000s for me...
Yh, the atmosphere alone is ridiculous. Everything sounds filthy, oppressive, psychedelic, and evil as hell. The guitars feel like they're dragging themselves through mud while the entire world collapses around them.
What makes this album so special is how committed it is to its vision. Every riff, every vocal, every ounce of ... read more

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Track List

1Vinum Sabbathi
3:05
92
2Funeralopolis
8:43
97
3Weird Tales
15:04
i. Electric Frost
ii. Golgotha
iii. Altar of Melektaus
90
4Barbarian
6:29
92
5I, The Witchfinder
11:04
92
6The Hills Have Eyes
0:46
84
7We Hate You
5:08
94
8Dopethrone
20:48
Contains hidden track "Mind Transferal"
93
Total Length: 1 hour, 11 minutes

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