Description
In 1993, in the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England, the heaviest band in the world was born: Electric Wizard. Led by guitarist and singer Jus Oborn, the band inhaled the iniquity of their lives and vomited it out in colossal waves of doom metal, synthesising the forbidding local landscape, biker culture, video-nasties, black magic rituals and titanic doses of psychedelics.
Come My Fanatics is the story of the rise and fall and triumphant return of the band, of their revolutionary andmind-expanding output, their legendary and calamitous tours, and of their legacy. It is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the subculture the band has absorbed and, in turn, created. From seventies exploitation cinema, through the writers of Weird Tales magazine and a panoply of the marginal and downright sinister, to the band's own live ceremonial happenings - this is Electric Wizard's world. We're just dying in it.
Author: Dan Franklin
Publisher: White Rabbit
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781474625418
ISBN10: 147462541X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Music | Genres & Styles | Heavy Metal
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
About the Author
Dan Franklin has written about metal and heavy music for over ten years. He is a contributor to music and pop culture website The Quietus. His first book HEAVY was published in 2020.