WAIT, THERE’S A NEW ELECTRIC WIZARD ALBUM OUT TODAY???

UPDATE: It’s come to my attention that this album was only released overseas today… here in the States, Metal Blade will be releasing the album in January.
Well, don’t I feel like a schmuck? In the absence of any press releases and I guess my failure to keep up with this shit when a label/band doesn’t actually try to tell me about it, Electric Wizard have a new album, Black Masses, out today on Rise Above Records.

And this is total news to me. I mean, I feel like I read in Decibel at some point that the band was in the studio, but I literally had no idea that the album was coming out today. Whoops.

Oh well. This isn’t really bad news; it’s more like a pleasant surprise. Like I woke up, and someone left a gift on my door step. I’m actually kinda glad. I had nothing to look forward to today, and now I do — I can get high and listen to the new Electric Wizard album. There. Afternoon gone.

Whether you’re a yutz like me and this news take you by surprise or you actually have your head screwed-on straight and you’ve known about this for weeks if not months, you can check out the new track “Black Mass” here. It sounds like Electric Wizard, which, y’know, isn’t a bad thing.

And major thanks to “brandonmetal” for opening my eyes.

-AR