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Wizzard
British group w/ Roy Wood

Wizzard

Also known as Roy Wood & Wizzards
Formed1972
OriginBirmingham
CountryUnited Kingdom
395,411Spotify followers
50/100Spotify popularity

Biography

There are several artists under this name:

(1) Roy Wood’s post- ELO project.

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(2) A blackened heavy metal band from Finland.

(3) A heavy metal band from Belgium

(4) A heavy metal band from Hoting, Sweden

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(1) Wizzard was Roy Wood’s post- ELO project. Formed in Woods hometown of Birmingham, Warwickshire in 1972, they made catchy, jazzy glam-rock hit singles like "Angel Fingers" and "See My Baby Jive" with a retro, Phil Spector-style "wall of sound" production. At the same time, they produced decidedly odd, almost avant-garde albums like Wizzard Brew. They remained active until around 1975.

(2) One of them is a blackened heavy metal band from Finland. It enjoyed some success in Finland and Germany though even some fans wondered why they had taken the name of Roy Woods famous band – the other z was actually added because the band didnt want to be confused with the German band Wizard. The band was founded by Teemu Kautonen as his solo-project in August 1995, and he handled all the instruments on the first demo, Teemu moved the band to Germany in April 1997 adding new local musicians CY and Daniel to the line-up. In August Teemu returned to Finland, but moved back to Germany in January 2001, and CY and Daniel came along again. Also a new guitarist Johnny joined the band.

Last known lineup:

Teemu Kautonen aka Hexenmeister - Vocals, originally also Bass and Guitars

CY aka Grobi - Drums

Daniel - Lead Guitars, Bass

Johnny - Rhythm Guitars

Discography;

I am the King, Demo, 1997

Children of Bodom, Split, 1997

Devilmusick, Full-length, 1998

Wizzard, Full-length, 1999

Songs of Sins and Decadence, Full-length, 2000

Tormentor, EP, 2000

Black Heavy Metal. Full-length, 2001

Metal Forever Vol. 1, Split, 2003

(3) Wizzard is a local Heavy Metal band from Belgium

(4) Wizzard were formed as a band in the early 1980s in Hoting, Sweden

They released the single Ninya Warrior 1986

The band split up after that record and reunited in 2023 when they played in Germany Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.

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