With their very own mixture of seventies hard rock, traditional heavy metal and occult imagery, The Wizards from Bilbao in Spain have struck a chord with the contemporary metal public.
The band was originally formed in the spring of 2013. After having recorded a four-track demo, they started gigging for earnest in February 2014. Since then, The Wizards have released three studio albums and toured mainly in Spain but also in France, Portugal and Germany. "The Wizards" (2015) was followed by "Full Moon In Scorpio" (2017) and "Rise Of The Serpent" (2018).
"The Exit Garden" is the name of their 2024 effort. "The Exit garden" is the place where the souls live, a place of Dream and Myth," explains the guitarist the meaning of the title of the new album. "It is also a place of Death. We like that place. It 's exuberant and wild, but also quiet and easy." He carries on to compare "The Exit Garden" with its predecessor "Rise Of The Serpent": "The approach and the context of the two albums is totally different.
Just like the earlier albums, with songs like the psychedelic monster "Crawling Knights" or the haunting ballad "Dawn Of Another Life", "The Exit Garden" once again shows influences by bands such as Black Sabbath, first and foremost, but also early UFO and Danzig. "That influence has always been in our sound, everybody in the band loves Sabbath," confirms Felipe. "But there are many other sources of inspiration for us … Danzig and UFO are bands that we also dig. We have many songs with quiet and calm parts, we like writing and playing that kind of stuff too. But 'Dawn Of Another Life' is our first song with no bass or drums, in the vein of 'Changes' (by Black Sabbath), or 'Before The Dawn' (Judas Priest), driven by vocals, guitar and keys."
