Electric Wizard has a very vintage sounding postulate; "Witchcult Today" was recorded with equipment from the 1970s, in fact. Here, the songs are naturally...better than most of their other releases, really. I find myself enjoying their specific doom metal episodes a little more for whatever reason despite little having changed from the group's original incarnation. Electric Wizard is simply turning your brain into a molten pool of protoplasmic gunk, just like usual. However, none can deny the utter strength and consistency lurching within the album's many seismic creepers. Using the toxic art of crawling doom metal to its maximum effect, Electric Wizard struts through excellent doom numbers with savagely brilliant precision. Jus Osborn's wretched vocals are—considering the usual bane that expels from his voice—easier to digest here than other releases by the band. As I said, "Witchcult Today" feels like Electric Wizard finding a more palatable approach to its own skin than ever before.

One complaint often hurled at Electric Wizard's ceremony here is the repetition and overuse of these basic riffs...well, this is Electric Wizard, so what in the butt were you expecting? Some scale-molesting shindig à la Spawn of Possession? No, shut your goddamn mouth. There are only a few selective guitar cuts swirling in each track, but they're selective cuts for a reason; totally prime and slow-roasted echoes of distorted gloom resonate in the intoxicated strings as nature originally intended. Specifically, the mentionable moments are almost everywhere: the chorus of "Dunwich" is catchy and diabolical, "Satanic Rites of Drugula" tramples on in its devilish daze from start to finish, and you'll have the whole pie called "Torquemada 71" bouncing around your head for days. The record’s longer anthems march on and on in a drug-fueled escapade of pure damnation and darkness with only a handful of instrumental blueprints per song, and it’s really amazing how well tools like repetition and atmosphere are utilized so magnificently here.