Dopethrone is the third full-length album by the doom metal

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

 band Electric Wizard

Electric Wizard

Electric Wizard are a stoner metal band from Dorset, England that formed in 1993. The band have since recorded seven albums, at least three of which are now considered to be landmarks of their genre: their self-title debut, Electric Wizard, Come My Fanatics..., and Dopethrone...

. It was released in 2000 through Rise Above Records

Rise Above Records

Rise Above Records is a London, England based independent record label owned by Lee Dorrian . It is named after a Napalm Death song from their EP Mentally Murdered. It was formed in the late 1980s and originally made to sell live releases by Napalm Death and S.O.B., but by 1991 had changed to cater...

 and re-released by the same label in 2004 and 2007 with an extra song.

Dopethrone, along with Come My Fanatics...

Come My Fanatics...

Come My Fanatics... is the second album by the doom metal band Electric Wizard. It was released in 1997, and is widely viewed as a landmark in the history of the doom metal genre...

, is often cited as Electric Wizard's seminal release and the highpoint of their career. Reviewers have described it as "some of the absolute slowest, heaviest doom imaginable" and have said "it may well be the finest record to emerge from the whole British stoner-rock scene".

On this album, Electric Wizard's very slow, heavy and psychedelic sound became more abrasive and aggressive. Jus Oborn

Jus Oborn

Justin "Jus" Oborn is the lead vocalist, lead electric guitarist and lyricist of Electric Wizard, an influential doom metal/stoner metal band from Dorset, England...

's vocals are heavily manipulated and low in the mix and the guitars are extremely fuzzy.

Dopethrone was crowned "Album of the Decade" (2000s) by Terrorizer magazine.

The song "Vinum Sabbathi" appears in the documentary "Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia"

Track listing

Silence and sound-clips

Silence

"Dopethrone" ends at 10:26 (on both issues) and is followed by silence; to the end of the track on the reissue and until 19:52 on the original. On the original, the ending features a 55 sec. sound clip from 20/20 in which two adults can be heard talking about whether or not a parent should take action if their child is being negatively influenced by heavy metal music by becoming depressed and joining satanic cults. The reissue negates the sound-clip from "Dopethrone" and has it end in only 30 seconds of silence and moves on to the bonus track which, in this essence, makes it a hidden track. Now the band had decided to move the sound clip to the end of the bonus track "Mind Transferal" which ends at 9:36 followed by silence until 14:00 where the sound-clip is now placed and leads to the end of the album. On the vinyl versions of Dopethrone the soundclip comes immediately after Mind Transferral ends.

Sound-clips

• "Vinum Sabbathi," "Mind Transferal," and "Dopethrone" contain sound clips from the May 16, 1985 episode of 20/20, discussing Satanism
  Satanism
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• "Barbarian" contains a sound clip from a scene in the film Conan the Barbarian.
• "I, The Witchfinder" and "Dopethrone" contain sound clips from the film Mark of the Devil.
• "We Hate You" contains sound clips from the film The Dunwich Horror
  The Dunwich Horror
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Personnel

• Jus Oborn
  Jus Oborn
  Justin "Jus" Oborn is the lead vocalist, lead electric guitarist and lyricist of Electric Wizard, an influential doom metal/stoner metal band from Dorset, England...
  
   - guitar
  Electric guitar
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  , vocals, effects
• Tim Bagshaw - bass
  Bass guitar
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  , effects
• Mark Greening - drums
  Drum kit
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• All lyrics - Jus Oborn
• All music - Electric Wizard
• Produced and Engineered by Rolf Startin
• Artwork - Hugh Gilmour, Tim Bagshaw and Jus Oborn

Release history

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Year	Label	Format	Country	Out of Print?	Notes
2000	Rise Above Rise Above Records Rise Above Records is a London, England based independent record label owned by Lee Dorrian . It is named after a Napalm Death song from their EP Mentally Murdered. It was formed in the late 1980s and originally made to sell live releases by Napalm Death and S.O.B., but by 1991 had changed to cater...	CD	U.K. United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	Yes	Original CD release
2001	JVC Victor	CD	Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	Yes	Includes bonus track
2001	The Music Cartel The Music Cartel The Music Cartel was a record label based in Port Washington, New York and active during the late 90s and early 00s. Many of their releases were also released in Europe on Rise Above Records. It was founded in 1998 by former Earache Records general manager Eric Lemasters...	CD	U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Yes
2004	Rise Above Rise Above Records Rise Above Records is a London, England based independent record label owned by Lee Dorrian . It is named after a Napalm Death song from their EP Mentally Murdered. It was formed in the late 1980s and originally made to sell live releases by Napalm Death and S.O.B., but by 1991 had changed to cater...	CD	U.K.	Yes	Includes bonus track
2004	Rise Above Rise Above Records Rise Above Records is a London, England based independent record label owned by Lee Dorrian . It is named after a Napalm Death song from their EP Mentally Murdered. It was formed in the late 1980s and originally made to sell live releases by Napalm Death and S.O.B., but by 1991 had changed to cater...	2LP	U.K.	Yes	Includes bonus track; limited 1500 copies (1000 white, 500 black)
2007	Rise Above Rise Above Records Rise Above Records is a London, England based independent record label owned by Lee Dorrian . It is named after a Napalm Death song from their EP Mentally Murdered. It was formed in the late 1980s and originally made to sell live releases by Napalm Death and S.O.B., but by 1991 had changed to cater...	2LP	U.K.	Yes	Includes bonus track; limited 800 copies (50 purple silk, 100 transparent amber, 100 clear, 550 black)
2007	Rise Above Rise Above Records Rise Above Records is a London, England based independent record label owned by Lee Dorrian . It is named after a Napalm Death song from their EP Mentally Murdered. It was formed in the late 1980s and originally made to sell live releases by Napalm Death and S.O.B., but by 1991 had changed to cater...	DigiCD	U.K.	No	Remastered version; includes bonus track
2007	Candlelight Candlelight Records Candlelight Records is an independent record label based in Europe founded by former Extreme Noise Terror bassist Lee Barrett, though it has had a division in the United States since January 2001. Candlelight Records specialises in black metal and death metal, having bands such as Emperor,...	DigiCD	U.S.	No	Remastered version; includes bonus track
2010	Rise Above Rise Above Records Rise Above Records is a London, England based independent record label owned by Lee Dorrian . It is named after a Napalm Death song from their EP Mentally Murdered. It was formed in the late 1980s and originally made to sell live releases by Napalm Death and S.O.B., but by 1991 had changed to cater...	2LP	UK	No	Black Vinyl Re-issue

Covers

The American doom metal band Akem Manah

Akem Manah (band)

Akem Manah is a doom metal band from Eugene, Oregon. They formed in May 2009. They have released one full-length album, as well as two digital singles.-History:...

 released a cover a "Funeralopolis" as a digital single on November 18, 2010 through Cdbaby. Also released on their EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 Horror In The Eyes on MArch 29, 2011.