Time to Die (Electric Wizard album)

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Time to Die
TimeToDieElectricWizard.jpg
Studio album by
Released29 September 2014 (UK)
30 September 2014 (US) [1]
Genre Doom metal
Length65:26
Label Spinefarm
Producer Jus Oborn
Electric Wizard chronology
Black Masses
(2010)
Time to Die
(2014)
Wizard Bloody Wizard
(2017)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 83/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Pitchfork Media (7.9/10) [4]
NME (8/10) [5]
Drowned in Sound (8/10) [6]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]

Time to Die is the eighth studio album by English stoner/doom metal band Electric Wizard, released on 29 September 2014. [8] It is their debut on Spinefarm, having left Rise Above. The album is the first since 2002's Let Us Prey to feature founding member Mark Greening on drums.

Contents

The album is the longest Electric Wizard studio album to date (excluding bonus tracks and the added silence at the end of Dopethrone ).

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Incense for the Damned"10:42
2."Time to Die"7:49
3."I Am Nothing"11:31
4."Destroy Those Who Love God"3:14
5."Funeral of Your Mind"7:08
6."We Love the Dead"9:05
7."SadioWitch"4:10
8."Lucifer's Slaves"8:40
9."Saturn Dethroned"3:07
Total length:65:26

Personnel

Electric Wizard

Guest musicians

Production

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [9] 86
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [10] 14
French Albums (SNEP) [11] 148
UK Rock & Metal Albums (Official Charts Company) [12] 5
US Billboard 200 [13] 64
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [14] 10
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [15] 16

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