Tag Archive: edinburgh


Blaze Bayley – Bannermans, Edinburgh 11/12/11

I’ve been fucking bored of heavy metal these days. I couldn’t even remember what I liked about it. Nothing could pull me out of this depression. Not Manowar’s first Glasgow date in 200 years, not a Priest-Maiden live one-two punch to my ear scrotum, not Joe Elliot performing Animal right at me personally. Shut up, he did. No, the thing that finally restored my faith in the mystical properties of denim & leather was a bald man in his late forties thrusting his beer gut enthusiastically into a half-filled cellar of sweat & beards.

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Fozzy – Studio 24, Edinburgh 13/10/2010

I’ll begin with a disclaimer. This review is packed so full of late nineties wrestling references that those of you who foolishly abstained from watching oiled, steroided superhumans engaging in protracted gay-offs would probably be best just skipping the whole thing & enjoying the shiny pictures.

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Die Apokalyptischen Reiter – Studio 24, Edinburgh 20/02/2010

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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Cancerous Womb – Austrian Basement EP

Cancerous Womb – Austrian Basement EP

Cancerous Womb – Austrian Basement EP

This is the debut EP of one of Scotland’s brightest hopes – Cancerous Womb – who are gamely sailing the brown seas of Dimebag necrofellatio, scene kids and bands that think Lamb of God are cutting edge genius to deliver some actual Death Metal to our poor, tired anuses. Seeing as there are only 3 songs on this, I’ll do a track by track…

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