Electric Wizard is a U.K. doom metal outfit known for their lengthy tunes and NSFW mentality. With nearly 20 years under their belts since their eponymous debut, the group's biggest chart hit, Time to Die, was released in September. Now, with the iron hot, the boys — and girl — will strike in North America for the first time in 10 years.
Immediately after the album soared up international charts, singer Jus Oborn hinted that a U.S. run would be coming.
"The album is meant to be played live," he told Occult in October. "I think that's pretty obvious from the way it sounds, which is raw and brutal. To be honest, we are probably going to end up touring the f--king world by the end of this album's life ... I'd like to get to South America eventually, and the U.S. tour is coming into play around April 2015, and then we'll be back to playing in Europe, so hopefully a world tour by the end of the cycle."
The group, also consisting of Liz Buckingham and Clayton Burgess, is pretty much a dyed-in-the-wool 1970s/'80s metal retread.
"We're not a singles band, we don't release three-minute songs, we release long, epic tunes that cover one whole side of an LP," Oborn said. "So we always conceive the artwork to go with that concept, and we've almost always done it ourselves. I think it's become almost half of what Electric Wizard is ... the visual element and the ideology and everything else that goes with the band, that's part of the attraction, really. Something deeper than just music."
Here are the newly-announced dates, via Brooklyn Vegan:
03/31: Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
04/01: Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage
04/02: New York, NY @ Webster Hall
04/03: Boston, MA @ Royale
04/04: Montreal, QC, Canada @ Corona Theatre
04/05: Toronto, ON, Canada @ Lee's Palace
04/07: Chicago, IL @ Metro
04/08: Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights
04/10: Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
04/11: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
04/13: Seattle, WA @ Neumos
04/14: Vancouver, BC, Canada @ Rickshaw
04/15: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
04/17: San Francisco, CA @ Slims
04/18: Santa Ana, CA @ The Obvservatory
04/19: Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy
And here is a small preview of what is to come:
