Dopethrone is the third studio album by English doom metal band Electric Wizard, released on 25 September 2000 by Rise Above Records.

Following the release and tour of their previous studio album Come My Fanatics... (1997), the group was asked by Rise Above owner Lee Dorrian to create a follow-up.

Vocalist and guitarist Jus Oborn has stated that drug issues and other personal problems led to the production of Dopethrone being a "difficult process".

Oborn, who wrote all of the album's lyrics, spoke of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard as influences in his own writing while the group disagreed during the mixing sessions about how the overall record should sound.

The music on the album has been described as both doom metal and stoner rock, with influences of British groups like Black Sabbath and Motörhead.

Tim Bagshaw, the group's bassist, has said that he was arrested for breaking into a liquor store, and drummer Mark Greening fell off his motorcycle and broke his collarbone.

[3] Bagshaw said that he wrote "quite a lot of the album", including writing "Vinum Sabbathi" in "about two minutes", along with "I, The Witchfinder", "Golgotha", and "We Hate You".

[5] Prior to recording each song, Oborn indulged in both cannabis and cocaine; Bagshaw said that the group consumed "copious amounts of weed and booze".

[7] Oborn recalled that the initial recording sessions were about three or four days, with the mixing taking much longer as there were arguments among the group members.

[11] Following the release of the album, Electric Wizard toured with the group Sons of Otis, initially in England starting on 27 September 2000, followed by shows across Europe, including Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

[20] On 7 March, the three members of Electric Wizard were searched and interrogated for possession of illegal substances in Richmond, Virginia.

[11] Dopethrone received positive reviews from CMJ New Music Monthly, Exclaim!, AllMusic, and The Chicago Sun-Times.

[9][10] DeRogatis said audiences might approach the album as being close to a Spinal Tap-like parody but felt that it did not negate the group from being "one of the most intense rock bands pounding the boards anywhere in this new millennium.

"[10] George Smith of the Village Voice also commented on the music, referring to it as a doom metal equivalent of the German beer Reinheitsgebot, declaring it "bitter and sulfuric to the point of unpalatability, but against which everything else seems watery.

"[31] In a more mixed review from Kerrang!, Mörat stated that although Dopethrone was "an aural landslide", there were "times when all [its] psychedelic sludgery drags on like a new ice age.

[3] Anthony Bartkewicz of Decibel, in commenting on the album's legacy, said that it established doom metal formally as a lifestyle.