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This June sees the publication of Come My Fanatics: A Journey Into The World Of Electric Wizard by White Rabbit. Here, author and tQ writer Dan Franklin explains the genesis of the book and gives us a glimpse into the crepuscular Wimborne, the town in Dorset where 'The Wizard' first coagulated into a rural world of biker gangs and drugs...
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of Witchfinder General. But in a world still characterised by corruption and violence, did we learn nothing from its warnings? Sean McGeady traces the film’s musical legacy and asks what keeps us coming back to it.
Electric Wizard grand magus Jus Oborn talks to Harry Sword about a lifetime of immersion in the outposts of horror, sleaze and exploitation cinema, why 'heavy' isn't about the peddles and amps you use and the importance of playing the long game.
Dan 'The Doom' Franklin speaks to Chief Wizard Jus Oborn and gets the low down on how eschatological panic, Sabbath and drum & bass influenced Britain's most heaviocious band to give birth to the new millennium in the form of Come My Fanatics...
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