OFNUS/BA'AL, LEGENDS, EDINBURGH OCTOBER 14 2023

A busy weekend in Legends starts with an evening of Black Metal, and black metal adjacent stuff. 

Filth. Pure filth. 

Nice poster.

Line-up:

MARAIGH: Brand new band from Glasgow. Tonight is their first ever gig, and their bass player's birthday. I think he's 12.

They're a bit raw, but they've got an interesting punky take on black metal. Oddly, their best and worst songs were both covers. The former is something by the French band MUTIILATION, and the latter an unfortunate version of ALICE IN CHAINS' 'Them Bones'. Bonus points for trying, but no.

Apologies for the terrible pics, but they're fully in the spirit of Black Metal.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/8k4WSU46oD0   https://www.facebook.com/Maraighband

OPHANIM: Local progressive black metallers, currently the go-to support for any extreme metal gig in Edinburgh, and getting better with every gig. They do some new stuff (see video below), which is nice, and the ever-evolving old(er) stuff feels fresher. No guitars are broken tonight, but Joplin's monitor falls over. It's not an Ophanim show unless something goes awry.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/zLkal-d2k1s   https://www.facebook.com/OphanimBand

BA'AL: Blackened post-metal from Sheffield, out on tour with Ofnus. They put a new album out not long ago- 'Ellipsism' - and they play a lot of it tonight. The song in the attached video isn't on it.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/Qvap5T3lj4Y   https://www.facebook.com/baalbanduk

OFNUS: Atmospheric black metal from South Wales, out on tour with Ba'al. Nice to see a band with a dress code - black shirt(buttons and everything!), black jeans, black boots, nice hair.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/xnnvYv1aQrU   https://www.facebook.com/Ofnus

OPHANIM, LEGENDS, EDINBURGH, JULY 8 2023

Their first outing as headliner, local blackened prog-metal duo Ophanim at Legends in Edinburgh playing their EP release gig. 

Line-up:

SCRAMBLE: The first duo of the night. Local lads, doing a kind of instrumental technical metal

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/frj-5mPCjfE   https://www.facebook.com/ScrambleBandOfficial

ACIDSAURUS BONG: Sludgy stoner trio. Sounds pretty much exactly as their name would suggest. Fond of dinosaurs.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/saV_nq4bod0   https://www.facebook.com/acidsaurusbong

WE MAKE MAMMOTHS: Fast and furious thrash metal from West Lothian

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/GrAjE-m-cro   https://www.facebook.com/WeMakeMammoths

OPHANIM: Our hosts tonight, celebrating the release of their 'TRIPTYCH' EP. (For those who can't be bothered Googling it, a triptych is 'a set of three associated artistic, literary, or musical works intended to be appreciated together'.) Oddly, for an EP release show, there was no sign of said EP. No CDs, no tapes. Can't even find it on Bandcamp. So, bearing in mind the description, I must assume that it contains three songs

OPHANIM, by the way, are a class of celestial beings in Judeo-Christian mythology that are known for their wisdom and thus are depicted as being angels of knowledge. Also, they look like big wheels full of eyes. Obviously.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/FBvqMEEOIlE    https://www.facebook.com/OphanimBand