SATHAMEL, LEGENDS, EDINBURGH, FEBRUARY 22 2025

 Another RED CRUST death metal evening in Edinburgh

LINE-UP:

TRILL: New local trio, doing some kind of blackened stoner-death thing. Randomly selected song for video turns out to be an ELECTRIC WIZARD cover, which was news to me... Also, they don't seem to do Facebook, but you could probably find them on Instagram, or whatever it is that the young people use these days.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/oS8XKOJE7T4

SACRIFICIAL BURIAL: The first of tonight's Glaswegians, describing themselves as 'ancient Egyptian death-thrash'. And who are we to argue?

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/6rA902WWA0E   https://www.facebook.com/sacrificialburial

ARTIFICIAL PATHOGEN: More Glaswegians, 'Scottish deathcore' this time. No video, because there were 'technical difficulties' with the one song that I recorded. Bugger. Nice dinosaur jumper, though.

https://www.facebook.com/Artificialpathogenuk

SATHAMEL: Progressive blackened death metal from, rather vaguely, England. Intensive research suggests Yorkshire.

VIDEO:   https://youtu.be/fpHcrmwPdlE   https://www.facebook.com/sathamelofficial

EXIST IMMORTAL, LEGENDS, EDINBURGH, OCTOBER 27 2023

 Red Crust brings some fancy technical metal to Legends. Fancy technical metal brings its own lights. 

When I get there, it turns out that the local wi-fi service is down and none of the card readers are working, so it's cash only. I'm old, and can remember when it was cash only ALL the time, but 'the Kids' don't understand.

Line-up:

SCRAMBLE: Local progressive metal instrumental duo. Come on not long after the doors opened, before the audience arrived. Hence the somewhat cavernous sound.

Video:  https://youtu.be/satsEoJprm4       https://www.facebook.com/ScrambleBandOfficial

ARTIFICIAL PATHOGEN: Glasgow deathcore/slam veterans, back in action after some time away it seems. Sounding like a couple of bears fighting in a bin full of spoons, rolling down a hill, whilst somebody slaughters a herd of pigs. So, they're doing it right.

Actually, I thought their name might be a conspiracy theorist's reference to a certain virus, but they're older than Covid. So it isn't.

Video:  https://youtu.be/T0efMm1ukv0   https://www.facebook.com/Artificialpathogenuk

GLASS GRAVE: 'Modern metal from Brighton, out on tour with Exist Immortal. Includes high kicking man in boiler suit and bucket hat. And hostile lighting.

Video:  https://youtu.be/1K9mhww1bQE   https://www.facebook.com/glassgraveuk

EXIST IMMORTAL:Tour headliners, from London, tech-metallers Exist Immortal bring their own lights, just to make taking pictures even more difficult.

Video:  https://youtu.be/xb6RTzPAAqc    https://www.facebook.com/existimmortal