Metal Up Your Ass! - November, 2006

Unholy Alliance Batman! Slayer at the SECC!' Oh yes. Forget all about the bleedin' Baltic weather as Scotland hits the traditional freeze-fest of November, and go check out the Angels of Death themselves on Thursday Nov 2 with In Flames, Lamb of God and Children of Bodom. The thrash-tastic proceedings kick off at 6pm.

A timely return to the home stage of Edinburgh's Liquid Room awaits seminal punks The Exploited on Friday 3rd while Saturday 4th sees Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor's Stone Sour band headline the Glasgow Garage with support from Bullets and Octane. Kindly allowing the most avid gig-goers a day of rest on Sunday, the expansively epic soundscapes of Sweden's Opeth snarl into ABC on Sauchiehall Street on Monday the 6th from 7pm. Support comes from legendary doom pioneers Paradise Lost.

The Cathouse hosts American Head Charge, who have braved the loss of guitarist Bryan Ottoson to tour again with Panic Cell and Twin Method. The action kicks off at 7pm on Tuesday the 7th. Into the intimate confinement of Edinburgh's Henry's Cellar Bar go Sassenach ambient-metallers Bossk on Sunday the 19th. Bossk supported Cult of Luna on no less than five UK dates this year and their return to Auld Reekie comes with support from locals Ix and west-coast hardcore types The Ocean Fracture. Then, like a particularly angry motivation therapist, Jamie Jasta and Hatebreed spit out the prescribed chunky riffs at The Garage on Friday the 24th. Though Jasta may sound like that partially deaf, aggressive drunk you know down the pub after 100 Marlboro Reds, he just wants the best for all of us. Because, 'If you don't live for something, you'll die for nothing'. Quite so.