Electric Wizard wrapped up their US mini-tour in NYC w/ Cough (pics, video, setlist)
UK doom legends Electric Wizard just wrapped up a short, rare run of US shows, their first in this country since releasing 2017’s great Wizard Bloody Wizard. The mini-tour began at Austin’s Levitation fest, followed by a few West Coast shows, and it wrapped up at NYC’s Playstation Theater on Friday (5/4). The NYC show was opened by Cough, who are clearly influenced by Electric Wizard and whose very good 2016 album Still They Pray was produced by Electric Wizard’s Jus Oborn.
Though Electric Wizard were supporting a new album, they only played one song off Wizard Bloody Wizard in NYC (“See You In Hell”), instead favoring a career-spanning set that reached back for classics like “Return Trip” and “Dopethrone” and also included some more recent faves like “Black Mass.” Their full setlist and a couple videos are below. Pictures of the show are in the gallery above.
For a taste (or in this case, a hit) of what it was like, here’s an excerpt of MFKN Zine’s review of the LA show:
By the time we were 3 songs in, I don’t know where or what I was. I kept staring at the screen filled with psychedelic colors, and videos of naked chicks with gore. I can definitely say it was made for stoners to stare at (and I greatly appreciated that lol). People were going apeshit in the aisles. Some ripped off their clothes and tossed them up. The air was so thick with weed smoke, you would have gotten high whether you wanted to or not. (Ugh take me back!) The sounds (that bass) hit me like waves of euphoria while the screen was tripping me out. At one point we were just enslaved to the metal, possessed even. All banging our heads at once like clones. When the band lost it on stage, we lost it too. The show ended with everyone on their feet losing their minds over the last song. They got three standing ovations from me as well, and it would have been five but I was too high to stand at one point.
It was… glooooorious! All I could think was, “I can die knowing that I lived this night”.
They played the classic favorites and some new stuff as well (I don’t want to give anything away). The show was fan-fucking-tastic. If you’re “not sure” about getting your tickets, consider this a “shake and slap”…. YOU NEED TO GET THOSE FUCKING TICKETS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!! Even if it’s “shit seating”… do it. Get your best hybrid sativa and get your ass to this show.
There you have it.
Electric Wizard at Playstation Theater – 5/4/18 Setlist (via)
Witchcult Today
Black Mass
Return Trip
See You in Hell
Incense for the Damned
Satanic Rites of Drugula
Dopethrone
The Chosen Few
Funeralopolis
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photos by Mathieu Bredeau
