Metal Up Your Ass - October

And after scavenging the barren tundra-like landscape for gigs in September... BOOM... October is quite frankly bursting at the seams with raucous gig action, from metalcore to straight-edge hardcore, classic metal to grind: it's across Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee this month, and it's all here in MUYA.

There's legendary classic metal from Diamondhead at The Cathouse in Glasgow on 4 Oct, tickets are available from CPL for £12. The 6th is the day to catch Errander and With Scissors play with retiring Edinburgh hardcore heroes Ben Cozine at The 3 Tuns, while up in Dundee Dirty Wee Middens top a bill including Serotonin at Drouthy Neebors. The 10th is the day to get down to King Tuts in Glasgow and see legacy-making New York DIY hardcore band Gorilla Biscuits and the Carling Academy plays host to Dream Theatre the following evening. Unmissable stuff.

Glasgow has a trilogy of opportunities to take in Predestination records agit-punkers Hey Enemy, doling out delirious grooves as they turn on the anti-charm at Bar Bloc with the rather tasty Alamos on the 18th, NYC sludge lovers Unsane at Sleazy's on the 19th and a three way of riff terror with Sluts of Trust and Titus Gein at Barfly on the 27th. You heading?

G'n'R-with-beatdowns act Avenged Sevenfold play G2 in Glasgow on the 14th - tickets are limited - and French trio Sincabeza play the Balcony Bar in Dundee on the 24th. It's a stunning line-up of national and local alternative acts with support from Moleck, Avast! (we dug the album with an industrial concrete drill which could only be used when journeying to the earth's core a few issues back) and the ubiquitously gregarious Dundee lads, Archives. Teckle!