Electric Wizard pulls out of Holland's Roadburn festival
British doom veterans Electric Wizard have been forced to cancel their previously announced appearance at the Roadburn festival, which will take place April 17-20 at 013 in Tilburg, the Netherlands, due to a "family" matter. They have since been replace by Wolves In The Throne Room, who will perform a one-off show at Roadburn 2008.Commented Electric Wizard's Justin Oborn: "We regret to announce that Electric Wizard will not be able to perform at Roadburn festival this year. Unfortunately due to an unforeseen and unavoidable situation, of a personal nature, which we had no idea would arise when we agreed to play last August, it has now become impossible for us to be at Roadburn. This cancellation is not something that we want to do and we wish to apologise to all our fans and all at Roadburn, especially Walter, and we hope that this awesome festival will be the huge success it deserves to be. We will be rescheduling our performance for September 12th, 2008 again at the 013 venue."
Electric Wizard's sixth full-length studio album, "Witchcult Today", was released in November via Rise Above Records. Recorded and produced by Liam Watson (White Stripes, Datsuns) at London's legendary Toerag studios, initial CD copies came in foil gatefold Lp replica, with a double vinyl version foil sleeve also available.