I was unaware that International Talk Like A Pirate Day had come around again (not really, you dullard) until Achren’s set. “You are a sorry excuse for a crowd compared with Bloodstock!” barks vocalist Scott, in his best buccaneer tones, to which he receives the sage response, “It’s the same fucking crowd, ya baw!” It’s true, looking around Ivory Blacks, about half of the crowd were packed into the New Blood tent on Saturday morning. It is also true that the crowd were a good deal less enthusiastic but that might have something to do with post-festival malaise.
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Die Apokalyptischen Reiter – Studio 24, Edinburgh 20/02/2010
It is 15 years since the criminally underrated Die Apokalyptischen Reiter formed & it’s only now that they get a UK headlining tour. Making up for lost time, the German nutcases decided to blast through a set which leaned heavily towards to last 2 albums. I can’t help but feel that the show would have benefited from a couple more of their classics. Licked By The Tounges Of Pride, Reitermania & Unter Der Asche almost made up for the absence of anything from their 2004 masterpiece, Samurai.
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Yesterday was a sad day for the Scottish metal scene. I know it was a Monday night, I know that somewhere down the line posters were printed with the wrong date on, I know there are a ton of metal gigs on this month but I still think that there should be a turn out of more than 50 people when bands of Wolf/Cauldron’s calibre actually bother to do a Scottish date. All I hear is bitching and complaining that no bands play Scotland and then whenever someone puts on a gig that’s not Slayer/Machine Head/Lamb of God, no one fucking turns up. Anyway, that’s my rant over, on to the review.
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