WIZARD'S BEARD

Reviews

• "An album for the connoisseur of doom metal of the more unconventional sort." (Disagreement.net)


• "Overall this is a strong offering of agonized doom" (Heavy Metal Time Machine)


• "Réservé à celles et ceux qui aiment le métal down tempo, les ambiances mortuaires et les vocaux extrêmes acérés comme des lames de rasoir" (Music in Belgium)


• "ein Album, mit dem man nichts falsch machen kann." (Alternativmusik.de)


• "cet album mérite comme ses confrères évoluant dans le même style d'être écouté fort et plus d'une fois, 8/10" (pavillon666.com)


• "Album of the day, February 3rd 2012" (Roadburn Festival Website)


• "This is about as good as it gets for sludge-laced doom metal, this album is monstrous, 9.5/10." (DoomMantia)


• "not only are the riffs working to unsettle you, their arrangements are too – it’s like the musical equivalent of pins and needles or heroin withdrawal.(...) The production is raw which gives the whole album a ‘live’ feel (comparable to Eyehategod’s Dopesick)" (The sleeping shaman)


• "Para que te hagas una idea algunas de las influencias de esta banda son de gente como IRON MONKEY, EYEHATEGOD, CROWBAR, NEUROSIS o CAVITY. Así que si eres consciente de donde te metes aquí tienes un viaje a lo largo de seis temas (más uno oculto) que te darán una buena dosis de pesadez y sombras. 7,5/10" (Noizz Webzine)


• "The last time I listened to it, I had to listen to some early Darkthrone to lighten the mood! I could go on…" (onemetal.com)


• "The six songs on this album are in the same vein and fans of bone hard sludge will get a boner listening to this. 73/100" (LordsOfMetal.nl)


• "Wizard’s Beard is a four-piece British Doom-Organ that not unlike their famous fellow-men (and woman) are very much into fuzz. " (Psychorizon)


• "Die Riffs sind dreckig und der Bass bollert die fetten Grooves und leicht verdaulich ist hier mal nichts. Fans von EYEHATEGOD, IRON MONKEY oder WEEDEATER sollten mal die Ohren aufsperren! Gut" (Amboss-mag.de)


• "vertonte Langsamkeit Deluxe! (…) Nur für eingefleischte Sludgefreaks! " (TerrorVerlag.de)


• "'Subirse El Muerto' e 'Harbinger' gli altri passaggi chiave di un disco che scorre con piacere e lascia il segno senza strafare. Metteteli di supporto a Electric Wizard o Lesbian e si scatenerà l'inferno. " (Dageisha.com)


• "Um dieses eher bösartige Doom Gebilde noch mal nen zusätzliches Maß an Bosheit beizumischen ,hat man sich auch beim Gesang was einfallen lassen .Denn der geht bedeutend mehr in die Black Metal Richtung und zeigt sich so richtig hässlich schreiend keifend" (Fatal Underground Fanzine)


• "Some will claim that Wizard's Beard have become less Doom and more Sludge, what I won't deny. To be more precise, they are exactly what Buzzoven could have been if they had formed in the Thatcher years (...)" (Doom-metal.com)


• "WIZARD’S BEARD. Also, liebe Metaller und Metallerinnen. „Four Tired Undertakers“ ist ein herrliches Album bei dem jeder Zweifler mehr als einmal rein hören sollte.8/10" (Medazzarock.ch)


• "iese englischen Bärte hier tragen den Sludge im Blut, wobei die Klangkaskaden an sich eher zum brachialen Doom Metal zu zählen sind. Den Sludge bringen vor allem die beiden Gesänge ins Spiel, Craig Hardys Leadvocals, so denn man den Begriff hier verwenden darf, schreien rau" (Obliveon)


• ""Four Tired Undertakers" est un album de sludge ascétique et sans concession dans la veine des Iron Monkey / Unearthly Trance et avant tout réservé à ceux qui ont passé l’épreuve de "Planets Collide" sans descendre dans la rue avec un cutter, les nerfs complètement corrodés. 14/20" (Metal Sickness)


• "WIZARDS BEARD est un peu l'alliance du glauque et malsain propre au sludge fusionné au feeling et au groove rock'n'roll du stoner. " (Nawakposse)


• "The album is dominated by slow chugging doom tracks echoing Electric Wizard. It’s when they step up a gear they start to shine brighter; EyeHateGod comes to mind on more upbeat sludgy jaunts like ‘Seeth Inside’. Definitely one to watch out for on the road. " (CackBlabbath)


• "Am besten und einfachsten kann man die Mucke als EYEHATEGOD mit Black Metal Vocals beschreiben" (Metal.tm)


• "Here they are. The last hope of UK's sludge underground, heavier than never, re-incarnation of Iron Monkey, Iro-Sludge" (Robust fellow)


• "non variano di una virgola quanto già fatto dalla band sopracitata e da altre band del sottogenere quali gli Eyehategod e Sleep." (Hardsounds.it)


• "eine schlechtgelaunten schwarzen Bastard aus Doom und Sludge." (Hell Is Open)


• "Wizard’s Beard is a young English sludge band who are on the precipice of making the jump to the limited level of fame and fortune this genre allows.4/5" (Jukebox Metal)


• "Four Tired Undertakers shows a band with plenty of potential moving in the right direction. Definitely a band to watch out for, 4/5." (Molten Magazine)


• "If you’ve been waiting for the next-gen British scene’s answer to Iron Monkey, then let this record be a well-received announcement of Wizard’s Beard’s candidacy for the position. They might have just earned it." (The Obelisk)