On 16 December 2014 Electric Wizard announced they would embark on a US/Canada tour in 2015, their first US shows since 2012 and full tour of the US since 2002. Tickets to the tour were sold out within a month after going on sale. The band was set to release their latest album, "Wizard Bloody Wizard" in 2016, however this did not happen and in a September 2017 article Blabbermouth reported that the release date had been extended to 10 November 2017. The album was eventually released on 17 November 2017 Clayton Burgess left Electric Wizard in early 2018 to focus on his band Satan's Satyrs.