Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

E is for…

Electric Wizard – Come My Fanatics. Been meaning to play this again for a while after an interesting retrospective piece in The Quietus. In fact, I don’t think I’ve really ever properly listened to this (though I have a memory of painting the spare bedroom in my old flat to it ;-0). Anyway, there’s a bit of a cosmic/space rock thing going on here among the down-tuned Sabbath worship, which actually works rather well, particularly here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH9OqfWQslg You always know what you’re getting with Electric Wizard, and Dopethrone is still their pinnacle of monstrous, drug-addled riffology, but CMF is also worthy of your attention.