What Electric Eel Shock love is classic metal bands: Sabbath, Priest, Zeppelin, Guns 'n' Roses, Metallica, Slayer.
The Flying V guitars were pure metal, the haircuts - one huge Mohican, one afro and one superstraight set of curtains - pointed to their lack of purist pretensions, while their attitude was total punk rock.
It didn't matter that the lyrics were part-English, part-Japanese - the music was meant to be felt in your stomach, not analysed and understood.
Frontman Aki leapt around the small stage like he not only owned it but hewed it from a tree with his own hands and nailed it together with his guitar.
Aki whipped the moshpit into such a frenzy that you started to wonder if he hadn't unleashed a bucketful of electric eels when we weren't looking.
Electric Eel Shock are the living, breathing embodiment of the ghost of classic metal past. Worship and believe.
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