First Listen: Electric Wizard, 'Time To Die' — npr.org

Electric Wizard's new album, Time To Die, comes out Sept. 30. Steve Gullick/Courtesy of the artist hide caption Electric Wizard's new album, Time To Die, comes out Sept. 30. Life is too short to care about burning bridges. English guitarist and vocalist Jus Oborn has been doing quite a bit of bridge-burning leading up to the release of Time To Die, Electric Wizard's first album in four years and eighth overall. Founding drummer Mark Greening was rehired and fired in dramatic fashion and, after a heated legal dispute, a former record-label boss was called names we can't print here. If anything, Oborn's hate game is in keeping with the band's two decades of ridiculously heavy, misanthropic doom metal.

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