Metal Up Your Ass - January, 2008
It's a new year with new music reaching Scotland but alongside it come those welcome smatterings of the old and familiar
A happy 2008 to y'all; let it be one laden with the best of heavy music. It's a new year with new music reaching Scotland but alongside it come those welcome smatterings of the old and familiar. If you're promoting or playing in a new metal or hardcore band and want MUYA to check you out, get in touch by emailing dave@skinnymag.co.uk. If we like what we see'n' hear, you could be featured alongside previews of shows like the four smackers we've got cooking this month.
Ploughing through the New Year's sleet and snow, brutal Glasgow-based metalcore merchants By My Hands take it to Dexter's on Sunday 13 Jan in Dundee. Bleed from Within beef up the bill with some serious guitar shredding.
Over in the capital on the same evening, The Hive hosts Wigan grindcore incendiaries Envisorax. The band, signed to 30 Days of Nights Records, have support from Somerset's Ignominious Incarceration and local stalwarts Friday Night Gunfight and The Black Chain.
Still going in spite of the current emo zeitgeist, the KoRn loyal will be marching through the icy climes to Glasgow's Carling Academy on Thursday 17 Jan for a recital of the Bakersfield four (or is that three)'s nu-metal classics and death disco nuggets from their latest LP.
Lastly, playing The Cathouse on Monday 21 Jan, female fronted My Ruin are over from California to throw down their patented heavy southern rock sound, with support from Die So Fluid and Plastic Toys.
Well worth braving the elements for.