White Rabbit signs in-depth story of ‘the heaviest band in the world’, Electric Wizard 

White Rabbit has signed Come My Fanatics: A Journey into the World of Electric Wizard, the inside story of a band said to be the heaviest in the world and the “pioneers" of doom metal, by Dan Franklin.

Lee Brackstone, publisher, acquired world English-language rights from Matthew Hamilton at The Hamilton Agency by arrangement with Mark Lewis of Mythology Management. The book has been written with the cooperation of the band and will be published on 22nd June in hardback, e-book and audio with a foreword by senior commissioning editor at Kerrang!, Nick Ruskell.

The synopsis reads: “In 1993, in the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, the heaviest band in the world was born. Led by guitarist and singer Jus Oborn, Electric Wizard began as an untameable power trio. They inhaled the iniquity of their lives and vomited it out in colossal waves of doom metal, synthesising the forbidding local landscape, biker culture, video-nasties, black magic rituals and titanic doses of psychedelics.

“In 1997 they released their revolutionary second album, ‘Come My Fanatics’ [and] then, after triumphant and calamitous tours of the USA and following the release of arguably the heaviest rock album ever recorded, 2000’s Dopethrone, Electric Wizard all but imploded, destroyed by the very reality they were fighting against. However, when guitarist Liz Buckingham joined Oborn on guitar for We Live, they drew a magic circle around themselves in a new line-up that went on to explore deeper occult horrors on modern doom classic Witchcult Today onwards."

Franklin said: “The existence of Electric Wizard is a thrilling aberration in the British musical landscape. For their fanatics, this book goes deeper into their world than anyone has ventured before. For the uninitiated, it reveals the abominable excesses of the Wizard. Once you get into this group, you can’t get out. I’m particularly happy to be spreading the bad vibes of Come My Fanatics with White Rabbit who are unhealthily committed to unearthing the forbidden treasures of our culture.”

Brackstone said: “I first published Dan Franklin in 2010 in a journal called Loops. Little did I know that 13 years later we would be reunited, working together on perhaps the heaviest and most occult band biography ever committed to the page. If you are a fan of Electric Wizard and their meticulously visioned world, soundtracked by the eternal riff, this book will be as essential as any quality doom metal album to hit the shelves this year. If you are not, then beware, and enter at your own peril. For here lie demons.”