Deathstar330.blogspot.com have a new interview with singer Jus Oborn from UK doom act ELECTRIC WIZARD. Topics discussed include their new album, Witchcult Today, new members, touring Japan with CHURCH OF MISERY and more. Here are a few excerpts from the chat:

Q: How long had ‘Witchcult Today’ been kicking around in your head?

Oborn: "The title actually came after we finished recording the album. We had recorded the song, but it didn’t have a title, then it got a title and that became the name of the album. Just something that grew from the lyrics, it’s really my take on a 70’s Satanic Porno Magazine type of thing."

Q: Lyrically you’re going some different places.

Oborn: "(Laughing) Well it’s got to be the best song title, ever, huh (laughs)?! That’s the after effects of smoking weed at 6:30 in the morning and going to work. But really it’s, one one level about Bobby Liebling (PENTAGRAM), but also it’s the movies and the comic books all mixed together. But there are a lot of lyrics that came together right before I recorded them….I mean you’re at the hotel smoking bong after bong after listening to fucking Doom all day long you start writing and just go wild. So yeah, they came together pretty naturally. There’s some stuff lyrically that really conjures up some mental images as I want every line to evoke the visuals of the song and what’s it’s about. I haven’t got any messages...none."

Q: Are the days of endless touring over for Electric Wizard? It seems like these days it’s one-offs and while you hit em hard, you’re back home before you know it.

Oborn: "Yeah, that’s what it’s going to be one-off’s and maybe some bigger kind of shows. We really want to be able to concentrate on the performance and not only that but the production as well too. The lights and all that…I don’t like how shows are presented these days, too gay looking. There’s got to be a way of making them heavier which I think can be done, like a proper horror show…like Venom used to do. We’d love to do something like that!"