UNDER, BANNERMAN'S. EDINBURGH, SEPTEMBER 23 2026

Another offering from EERIE EIDOLON. On a Wednesday. So I have to take a day off work. Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.

Also Stu from FotG/EE said that I'd be on the guest list and didn't need to buy a ticket, but that didn't seem fair so I bought one anyway. 

Line-up:

FALL OF THE GATEKEEPERS: Local post-sludge lads getting things under way.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/u68oM9wl9Yk   https://www.facebook.com/fallofthegatekeepersofficial

ACIDSAURUS BONG: The dankest of sludge. I have no idea why the font for the video link is so large. Not MY doing.

VIDEO:    https://youtu.be/gaXm4VhERhc    https://www.facebook.com/acidsaurusbong

UNDER: Excellent sludge/noise from Stockport. It's sludge, Jim, but not as we know it. Sludge with weird chewy bits in it. Awkward sludge. Uneasy listening. 

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/TM5QhkFXrH8   https://www.facebook.com/understockport

HELLRAISER X-MAS SPECIAL, BANSHEE LABYRINTH, EDINBURGH, DECEMBER 13 2024

 Friday 13th. I'm feeling lucky for my last gig of the year.

Line-up:

PRIAPISM: From Newcastle. Imagine CLUTCH playing tech/death metal. Or don't. Your choice.

VIDEO:https://youtu.be/enHlxxDjNxM      https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063464893966

ACIDSAURUS BONG: The dankest sludge/stoner/grind/doom/etc. Local lads with a recent new album to promote. Which they do.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/mKaAtGaxhfQ   https://www.facebook.com/acidsaurusbong

ACID AGE: War-jazz thrashers from Northern Ireland, in Scotland for the very first time. Hopefully they'll be back soon, because they were unreasonably good.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/Qmv9_LVfHZk    https://www.facebook.com/acidagethrash

ROBOT DEATH MONKEY: Local stoners. Like desert rock, if you were driving through the desert in a stupidly fast car with a broken silencer. And lots of beer.

Joined - briefly - at one point by some lad from, I think, BIG IRON. That's him there, in the photograph.

VIDEO:   https://youtu.be/EoUx_lyXr3s   https://www.facebook.com/RobotDeathMonkey

Well, what a way to end the year. Four trios. Two old favourites and two new ones. Death/sludge nutters from Newcastle and a bunch of ridiculously talented Irish thrash lads. 

Merry Fudmas, and see you all next year.

PTHUMULHU, LEGENDS, JULY 23 2024

 Any vowel you like, as long as it's 'U'

Venue: LEGENDS, EDINBURGH

Line-up:

TLÖN: New 'supergroup', formed of ex members of atmospheric black metallers HAAR, and some other people. Expect 'subjective idealism filtered through a dissonant lens.  Change of plan. Covid strikes.

PUPPET MIDNIGHT: Last minute addition to the line-up. Solo wonky lo-fi weird-punk. A little odd, perhaps, on this hefty bill, but there's nothing wrong with mixing things up a bit. I reckon Stuart beefed up his usual sound a bit, but his 'eccentric' bass playing and mostly-spoken songs/poems still puzzled the early arriving metalheads. Especially the handful of foreign tourists who'd come along to see the headliners. I can imagine them, back in Germany(maybe) trying to explain Puppet Midnight to their friends...

VIDEO:   https://youtu.be/FmfRBYWY5m8  https://www.facebook.com/PuppetMidnight

ACIDSAURUS BONG: Dank. 

Regular readers will know Acidsaurus Bong and their swampy turbo-sludge, but tonight they have some NEW stuff to play, including a 17 minute epic about the A9 road(which I DID record, by the way, but is not for public consumption. Yet.)

                                       

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/3hFPk5OtVzg   https://www.facebook.com/acidsaurusbong

PTHUMULHU: Blackened doom trio from Iceland, or a Lovecraftian cosmic horror from outer space. Or maybe both.

Pthumulhu are quite terrifying. Dressed all in black. Black masks. A single small light at their feet. Savage, intense black noise. Absolutely no interaction with the audience. Magnificent stuff. Watch the video.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/ZqPoCBKPQBQ There's no Facebook link, because they're too grim for social media. They're on Instagram, but you won't find much there.