Metal Up Your Ass , November 2007

Remember, remember, the riff in November. There are six shows exploding over Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee this month so get plotting your November gig-going now with MUYA's recommended firecrackers.

Volatile Leeds firestarters, Beasts, make Dundee's Balcony Bar their destination for ferocious punk hardcore on 4 Nov, with Durai and Attack the Hive shoring up the bill. 13th Note will be shaken to the core by Londoners Knuckledust who head up a brutal Saturday with Broken Oath and The Year is One on the 10th. Friday the 16th is a toss up either side of the M8 between emerging Glasgow radio-friendly electro-metal band Darkwater at The Cathouse or Lavotchkin - more likely to burn down 'The Grove' than the Houses of Parliament - the angular Geordie riot-starters playing with Omerta at Edinburgh's The Hive. Also at The Hive this month are popular mosh-merchants War From a Harlot's Mouth, in what should be a busy night of jag-tastic antics also featuring Intronaut on the 22nd. Then, on the 29th, the cavernous arena of the SECC will be full to the brim for the latest stop on the Black Crusade. Headlining with Machinehead, the touring show features popular-cos-they're-fast Dragonforce, apple-cheeked goons Trivium, Arch Enemy and melancholy try-hards Shadows Fall.

I believe if you miss all of these, you can be hung for treason.