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/

UNMAKING, BANSHEE LABYRINTH, EDINBURGH, DECEMBER 6 2024

 Three new bands I know nothing about. This could go either way...

Line-up:

GNARL: Solo guitar doom/drone. Joined for the second half of his set by a chap - SCOTT LYALL, I believe - reading a creepy story about a jakey's curse. Not 'fun', exactly, but I like it. There's no video for this because of technical problems with my memory card. Bugger.

https://www.facebook.com/Gnarlband

Glow-wirM: Pulsing industrial techno. He twiddles his knobs in the dark behind a screen, upon which is projected a series of writhing abstract images - weird tentacly things, screaming mouths, that sort of ting. Unsettling but mesmerising. Making the usual video is next to impossible, so there's a montage of still images over the music instead. 

VIDEO:   https://youtu.be/jiA-N2kaVig

UNMAKING: A new band which doesn't seem to exist on-line anywhere, so I know next to nothing about them. They don't seem to have released any music yet, either. But they play a ferocious kind of blackened thrash, hints of SLAYER. Singer spends most of the show writhing and contorting on the floor. Great stuff. Oh, and the drummer used to be in FRANZ FERDINAND. Yes, that FRANZ FERDINAND.

VIDEO:  https://youtu.be/l4myOSPw5dc