The first show organised by new promoters, EERIE EIDOLON, and it's going to be HEFTY.
Line-up:
FALL OF THE GATEKEEPERS: New kids, doing a blackened post-metal thing, fronted by STUART HALL ex of SOMAESTHESIA and the man behind tonight's promoter EERIE EIDOLON.
TELEOST: Glasgow-based doomsludge duo. Colossally loud
OF SPIRE AND THRONE: Local heroes, returning to the scene after some years in hibernation. New bass player, new songs, still heavy as fuck and Donna still plays drums with a hammer.
Celebrating US Independence day with an evening of psych/stoner stuff from North of the river. Fortunately, no orange shitclowns involved.
THE UNDERNEATH: '3-Piece pineapplepizzapop extravaganza', apparently. Whatever THAT means. Judging from the rest of the bill, these lads come from Dundee.
Reality: they're from West Lothian, there's only 2 of them (bass player absent for the evening - off seeing MCR apparently), and they play excitable fuzzy noisy rock. They're very good.
CRUISE ELROY: From Dundee, with a fondness for Lemon Fanta. Most of them used to be in SPEEDRUNNER, which tells me nothing at all. Fizzy, mathy alt-rock kinda thing
INDICA: Cosmic desert rock trio, also from Dundee. They don't get out much - this is their first Edinburgh gig in 6 years. (Henry's Cellar Bar, supporting UNDER. I was there, to nobody's great surprise.)Worth the wait, though, because they are dead good.
KURNEL FIST: 3-piece alt/stoners from - you guessed it - Dundee. Tonight's hosts. Something of a belated album release show for 'Seat With A View' from which most of tonight's set is taken. Plus a cheeky wee ALL THEM WITCHES cover.
Quality gig, poorly attended. The hazards of trying to run a DIY gig in Edinburgh when you're in Dundee. I had fun, though.
WULFHERE PRODUCTIONS black metal showcase in Edinburgh. Originally planned for two days, now trimmed to a single night. For reasons.
Line-up:
SOULGRIEF: Solid, unpretentious Black metal trio from Halifax (Yorkshire, not Nova Scotia) playing Scotland fpr the very first time
ÚLFARR: Cumbrian black metal. I'm sure I've seen some of these lads before in other Cumbrian black metal bands. Hard to tell under the corpse paint. Hard and fast, bass-heavy, as if Motorhead were a BM band.
RUADH: Rousing, atmospheric black metal from, I think, Falkirk. Songs of kings and battles and national pride. If they were more Scottish, they'd be painting themselves blue and getting pumped by Brazil. Not sure about the metalcore man-bun and indoor shades, though...
CNOC AN TURSA: Granite-faced ultra-Scottish black metal. Similar themes to RUADH, but darker. Chatty drummer, though, with his bad back and that... Unlike Ruadh, they wouldn't need to paint themselves blue as they played under uniformly blue lights. Lots of black leather & black kilts.
WULFHERE will be back in October with more BLACK METAL. See you there.
The first show organised by new promoters, EERIE EIDOLON, and it's going to be HEFTY. Line-up: FALL OF THE GATEKEEPERS : New kids, doin...
