ELECTRIC WIZARD released their third album, "Dopethrone," on September 25th, 2000, through Rise Above Records, whose owner Lee Dorrian had asked the band for a follow-up to "Come My Fanatics..." Jus Oborn later described the process as difficult, wrecked by drug problems and personal conflict; the trio entered Chuckalumba Studios in May 2000 with only three songs written — "Dopethrone," "Funeralopolis" and "We Hate You" — and recorded the whole thing in three days. Oborn's lyrics draw on H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, and the guitars are tuned and distorted past the point of legibility, sludge as an aesthetic rather than a byproduct. Terrorizer gave it nine out of ten, AllMusic and Exclaim! judged it strong enough to set the genre's standard, and it is now the most widely cited doom metal album since BLACK SABBATH.
