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You wouldn’t say the place was packed. There are, perhaps, 20 people in the back room of the Unicorn pub in north London watching the first band on tonight’s bill. They seem wary at first, keeping their distance from the stage, but slowly they begin to follow the heavy, stoned groove of the music and their heads begin to nod, then shake, then finally bang.
There are several unusual things about this performance. First, although this is a metal band playing a metal show in a metal pub, there isn’t a guitar on the stage: three synthesiser players flank a drummer. Second, the musicians are only playing covers. Third, they are only playing covers of one band’s songs. This is the debut gig by Electronica Wizard, whose performances are devoted to recreating, on synths, the work of the doom metal band Electric Wizard.
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