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Come My Fanatics...
Come My Fanatics... is the second studio album by English doom metal band Electric Wizard. The album was released in January 1997 on Rise Above Records and was produced by Rolf Startin, Mike Hurst and band member Jus Oborn. It was the group's follow-up to their eponymous album Electric Wizard. Oborn described the release as a reaction to the music on the earlier album, which he had felt was not as heavy as he wanted the group to sound. The songs on Come My Fanatics… were described by Lee Dorrian, Rise Above Records owner, as breaking from the traditional doom metal style, with an unpolished and chaotic approach.
The thematic elements of the album draw from 1970s horror films, biker movies and the writings of H. P. Lovecraft; there are three songs about leaving Earth to avoid an impending environmental disaster. The album release was followed by a tour with the band Cathedral and positive reviews from heavy metal magazines Metal Hammer, Terrorizer and Kerrang!. Come My Fanatics… continued to receive praise in retrospective reviews, with Terrorizer declaring it "the wake-up that the UK doom scene needed" and Dorrian describing it as "the turning point of everything".
Prior to recording with Electric Wizard, lead singer Jus Oborn was mostly interested in the death metal genre. After listening to Black Sabbath under the influence of mushrooms, he was inspired to take his music in a different direction. At the time, Oborn was a member of a group called Eternal, who were drifting apart; Oborn said, "I had a vision of doing the doom stuff. The rest of the guys were just into Alice in Chains."
After forming in 1993, Electric Wizard recorded their self-titled debut album, which was released in 1994. AllMusic editor Eduardo Rivadavia described the album as "impressive" but considered Electric Wizards music to be "pretty standard doom fare for the time." Oborn was not happy with the recording of Electric Wizard, finding it lighter-sounding than they had wanted. He said, "We went to a big fancy studio and we were like, 'Oh no, we've gotta do as we're told". This led to the sound of their follow-up album, Come My Fanatics...; Oborn said, "it had to sound right this time". About the recording period, Oborn said, "Our country wasn't in a great state. And metal was totally fucked at that point. We were really making a musical statement. When you're younger everything is a reaction against the world."
Oborn found producer Rolf Startin, who shared the band's desire for rawness and feeling, listed in the Yellow Pages. Startin was prepared to build the studio around the band, supplying the band with vintage amplifiers. Come My Fanatics... was recorded at Red Dog Studios in July 1996. Oborn later described the album's production as "very technically inept", and said it was "very difficult to deliberately do things badly. It just happened. It was exactly the sound we were trying to create."
Some songs on the album contain samples from films such as "Return Trip", which contains a sample of the film Cannibal Ferox. The horror film samples came from video nasties passed under the table at the market stall in Wimborne in Dorset, where the members of the group lived. The song "Invixor B/Phase Inducer" is an instrumental track, with an introduction that came about by accident when the band experimented with a drum & bass sampler in the studio. Oborn said the group were "quite impressed, even though we didn’t like the music". He mentioned specific albums, such as Six Million Ways to Die "seemed quite brutal in the use of samples and that was something we thought we could bring to our music". The album's closing track, "Solarian 13" is also an instrumental track.
Rise Above Records owner Lee Dorrian stated that the group's sound on the record "somehow managed to break the mould of traditional doom metal", noting that previous doom metal groups are "very morose and slow and heavy which can be very off-putting" while Electric Wizard had a guitar sound that had a "completely unpolished approach to the way they present themselves". Dan Franklin, writing for The Quietus, stated the group's style of music was "completely contrary to the surprisingly spiritual tendencies of Trouble and others", noting its "thick, chaotic and crushing sound". A 29-second sample of Electric Wizards's "Wizard in Black" featuring the groups use of sampling echoed these statements, noting that the album "somehow upped the sonic ante through a wall of sludge so thick that even the most experienced of metal heads couldn't help but be overwhelmed by its power". Dorrian also found the album difficult on a first listen, stating:
When I first listened to it I was like 'Fucking hell I can't hear the drums' but realized that it was a good thing that they were completely buried. I just got completely stoned and listened to it on my bed and thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard.
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Come My Fanatics...
Come My Fanatics... is the second studio album by English doom metal band Electric Wizard. The album was released in January 1997 on Rise Above Records and was produced by Rolf Startin, Mike Hurst and band member Jus Oborn. It was the group's follow-up to their eponymous album Electric Wizard. Oborn described the release as a reaction to the music on the earlier album, which he had felt was not as heavy as he wanted the group to sound. The songs on Come My Fanatics… were described by Lee Dorrian, Rise Above Records owner, as breaking from the traditional doom metal style, with an unpolished and chaotic approach.
The thematic elements of the album draw from 1970s horror films, biker movies and the writings of H. P. Lovecraft; there are three songs about leaving Earth to avoid an impending environmental disaster. The album release was followed by a tour with the band Cathedral and positive reviews from heavy metal magazines Metal Hammer, Terrorizer and Kerrang!. Come My Fanatics… continued to receive praise in retrospective reviews, with Terrorizer declaring it "the wake-up that the UK doom scene needed" and Dorrian describing it as "the turning point of everything".
Prior to recording with Electric Wizard, lead singer Jus Oborn was mostly interested in the death metal genre. After listening to Black Sabbath under the influence of mushrooms, he was inspired to take his music in a different direction. At the time, Oborn was a member of a group called Eternal, who were drifting apart; Oborn said, "I had a vision of doing the doom stuff. The rest of the guys were just into Alice in Chains."
After forming in 1993, Electric Wizard recorded their self-titled debut album, which was released in 1994. AllMusic editor Eduardo Rivadavia described the album as "impressive" but considered Electric Wizards music to be "pretty standard doom fare for the time." Oborn was not happy with the recording of Electric Wizard, finding it lighter-sounding than they had wanted. He said, "We went to a big fancy studio and we were like, 'Oh no, we've gotta do as we're told". This led to the sound of their follow-up album, Come My Fanatics...; Oborn said, "it had to sound right this time". About the recording period, Oborn said, "Our country wasn't in a great state. And metal was totally fucked at that point. We were really making a musical statement. When you're younger everything is a reaction against the world."
Oborn found producer Rolf Startin, who shared the band's desire for rawness and feeling, listed in the Yellow Pages. Startin was prepared to build the studio around the band, supplying the band with vintage amplifiers. Come My Fanatics... was recorded at Red Dog Studios in July 1996. Oborn later described the album's production as "very technically inept", and said it was "very difficult to deliberately do things badly. It just happened. It was exactly the sound we were trying to create."
Some songs on the album contain samples from films such as "Return Trip", which contains a sample of the film Cannibal Ferox. The horror film samples came from video nasties passed under the table at the market stall in Wimborne in Dorset, where the members of the group lived. The song "Invixor B/Phase Inducer" is an instrumental track, with an introduction that came about by accident when the band experimented with a drum & bass sampler in the studio. Oborn said the group were "quite impressed, even though we didn’t like the music". He mentioned specific albums, such as Six Million Ways to Die "seemed quite brutal in the use of samples and that was something we thought we could bring to our music". The album's closing track, "Solarian 13" is also an instrumental track.
Rise Above Records owner Lee Dorrian stated that the group's sound on the record "somehow managed to break the mould of traditional doom metal", noting that previous doom metal groups are "very morose and slow and heavy which can be very off-putting" while Electric Wizard had a guitar sound that had a "completely unpolished approach to the way they present themselves". Dan Franklin, writing for The Quietus, stated the group's style of music was "completely contrary to the surprisingly spiritual tendencies of Trouble and others", noting its "thick, chaotic and crushing sound". A 29-second sample of Electric Wizards's "Wizard in Black" featuring the groups use of sampling echoed these statements, noting that the album "somehow upped the sonic ante through a wall of sludge so thick that even the most experienced of metal heads couldn't help but be overwhelmed by its power". Dorrian also found the album difficult on a first listen, stating:
When I first listened to it I was like 'Fucking hell I can't hear the drums' but realized that it was a good thing that they were completely buried. I just got completely stoned and listened to it on my bed and thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard.