Altsounds — Heavy, psychedelic, retro doom metal legends Electric Wizard are slated to release their latest album "Black Masses" on January 18, 2011 on Metal Blade Records. This has been their first album in almost four years since 2007's "Witchcult Today". I lo... more info

Metalsucks — The issue with Electric Wizard’s 2000 classic Dopethrone was that it seemed to require smoking a Herculean amount of marijuana to properly enjoy it. And though saying one needs weed to enjoy something is usually a slight against the something in qu... more info

Metalsucks — In case Agalloch and Electric Wizard weren’t enough to get you pumped this Monday morning, video footage of Turisas performing a new song, “The March Of The Varangian Guard,” has now surfaced. The material is nothing new for Turisas, but it’s... more info

Metalsucks — 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... more info

Popdose — We’re 50 albums into this list of the 300 metal albums docked on my iPod. Enjoy ten more as we inch slowly to the top! 250. Electric Wizard, Come My Fanatics … (1997) At one point I swear I remember reading someplace that the Guinness Book of Wor... more info

The Quietus — Electric Ballroom gig announced more info

Metal Injection — We learned a new phrase on this edition of the Metal Injection Livecast: anal runoff. Find out the contest by listening in. We also spend a healthy amount of time listening to some mash-ups that users in the chat suggested. Also, we found a new Iron... more info

Scotsman.com — HE WAS the most famous and outrageous performer of Edwardian Britain whose high-voltage music hall act shocked and entertained the crowds in equal measure. more info

The Quietus — Heaviest band in the world heading to Birmingham more info

Pitchfork — -- Rap biopic alert! The former music writer Cheo Hodari Coker, who adapted the script for the Biggie biopic Notorious from his own surprisingly great Biggie book of the same title, has signed on to write a Run-DMC biopic. According to the Hollywood... more info