KULK, HOME BAR, EDINBURGH SEPTEMBER 26 2026

 Been really looking forward to this one

LINE-UP:

OBSIDIAN SAND: Colossally loud sludgy post-metal.  Play in the dark, so only one photograph because I don't like using flash.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/MZTTpqdXiSs    https://www.facebook.com/ObsidianSand

IAN: The most innocuous of names, the most crushing riffs. Post-metal done right. With a cello. And they had some lights on.

VIDEO:   https://youtu.be/thY1h8Ul3R4   https://www.instagram.com/iantheband

KULK: Back to darkness with this VERY loud doom/noise duo, out on tour plugging their new record. Which you should buy, obviously.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/HnnRtfZjSSc   https://www.facebook.com/kulkband

UNMAKING, HOME BAR, EDINBURGH, MARCH 15 2026

 Noisy folks in a tiny room

Line-up:

DISTILL: Two-piece D-beat/grindcore drum'n'bass combo. The sound of a wheelie-bin full of cutlery falling down a hill. Excellent stuff.

VIDEO:    https://youtu.be/P6QUIRwF_YM    https://www.instagram.com/distill_grind/

OF SPIRE AND THRONE: Edinburgh's favourite abyssal doom trio make a glorious return to the live stage, now featuring new bass man Stuart Bendiks of ACIDSAURUS BONG, and sounding as hefty as ever. Ali told me that the first song would be a new one so I could catch it on video( see below), but he neglected to tell me that it is 20 MINIUTES LONG! 

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/-XC571q5Y5A   https://www.facebook.com/ofspireandthrone

UNMAKING: Bleak blackened death metal from Glasgow. Ferocious stuff. You'll not find them on the socials, but they are on Bandcamp. And, yes - although he's probably fed up with people mentioning it - that drummer used to be in FRANZ FERDINAND.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/3A-gYCkIBfQ  https://unmaking.bandcamp.com/

HEADLESS KROSS, HOME BAR, EDINBURGH, JULY 12 2024

 Following on from last week's post, here's another new venue. And a couple of new bands.

Venue: HOME BAR, EDINBURGH

Line-up:

VEXATIONS: Local 'off-kilter post-punk quartet', only played their first gig back in May. Nice'n'noisy, fast'n'furious, great stuff. Guitarist on the left, over by the drums, managed to break a string -the SAME string - three times - once during sound check, once while re-stringing and once again during their set. Maybe he should look into that...

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/-ovooOKvMB0   https://www.facebook.com/vexationsedinburgh

POUND LAND: Pound Land's music has been described (by Christopher Nosnibor at Aural Aggravation) as 'harrowing, nasty and overtly unpleasant', and he's not wrong. They're down a guitarist tonight, so it's just drums, bass, vocals and saxophone, and it's filthy. They're from Manchester, as if that explains anything.

VIDEO:   https://youtu.be/BSBUu-jGVDs  https://www.facebook.com/pound.land.2024

HEADLESS KROSS: Veteran Glaswegian psych/doom trio, no strangers to the capital, doing exactly what they do, and doing it very well. They've had plenty of practice, after all. Bonus points to drummer Johnny for asking after my cat. 

Interesting coincidence - guitarist Tommy Duffin works with PAL and Dragged Up from the recent Leith Depot gig and recorded their latest music.

VIDEO:   https://youtu.be/RVYeIp5n1lo   https://www.facebook.com/headlesskross