#scottish metal

[seumascowan]

KbCaliUL W2-D4

3x circuits of: Jump rope x100reps Step-ups x10reps Chin-ups x15reps Band shrugs x15reps Asst pistol squats x5reps Kb Pendlay rows x10reps Kb clean/squat x5reps Bicep curls x4-6reps

Went circuit mode for the second Upper pull/Lower push day. Not sure I like it better, aside from 3x with around 2.5 min rest lasting all of about 20 minutes or so and my HR blasting through my chest. A decent session nevertheless.

Okay, last Hellripper tune for the week. Today's is "The Hanging Tree" from the great record, 'The Affair of the Poisons'

#fitblr #fitness #dungeon gym #health & fitness #vegetarian lifter #training #workout #calisthenics #fitfam #kettlebells #kettlebell training #KbCaliUL #upper lower split #push pull legs #fitness program #bandcamp #blackened thrash #thrash metal #hellripper #scottish metal #goat kvlt

[lichgutz]

DREKAVAC

#blackened death metal #black metal #bandcamp #lich pics #scottish metal

[philosopheme]

Saor @ Fortress Festival (2023)

Atmospheric folk black metal from Scotland

Bandcamp

#black metal #scotland #atmospheric #folk metal #scottish music #scottish metal #ukbm #bagpipes

[nassauband]

Check out our first single: Satan

#Youtube #death metal #metal #technical metal #reggae metal #ska metal #melodic metal #progressive metal #all the metal #Nassau #Metal Nassau #Nassau Band #Scottish Metal

[flashpointwr7]

Finally got my LTD again, had to send it back after issues with the fretboard, been almost 6 months since then.

LTD AP-4 Black Metal

The Dimebag signature in the background too ❤️

#bass #guitar #metal #ltd #ltd guitar #esp #black metal #emg #death metal #scottish metal #scottish #music #musician #dean guitars #razorback #dimebag #dimebag darrell #pantera #floyd rose #metal music #heavy metal

[arc-hus]

Quarry Studio, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland - Moxon Architects

#Moxon Architects #architecture #design #building #modern architecture #interiors #minimal #concrete #contemporary architecture #studio #office #rural #chimney #standing seam metal roof #landscape #nature #beautiful design #scottish highlands #cairngorms #scotland

[blueiskewl]

Carrot Harvest Helped Metal Detectorist FindA Ancient Coins Hoard

When Alan Baxter found a medieval ring in a farmer's field he knew there could be more ancient artefacts nearby - but the stubble from the thick oat crop made it difficult for his metal detector to get anywhere near the ground. So he waited.

Four years later the farmer had planted and harvested carrots.

"It must have had a deep plough when the carrots got lifted and I could get my detector right to the soil," the 44-year-old said.

"Every 3ft I was getting a signal. I couldn't move, there was stuff everywhere.

"I didn't want to go home."

The highlight of his haul in 2022 was a hoard of farthings from the reign of 15th Century Scottish King James III.

"I got my first one and I knew it was really rare because I know my coins," he said.

"After that it was just like a tap, it just kept on going, and over the course of a few weeks I pulled 52 of them."

The 500-year-old coins, which were made of copper and were worth a quarter of a penny, were in very good condition, Mr Baxter, from Falkirk, said.

The coins are irregular shapes. They have the Saltire - the cross of St Andrew - on one side and a crown on the other.

"To hold something that's hundreds of years old for the first time is extraordinary," he said.

"You get a real buzz going up and down your body which lasts all day and all night."

An expert at the National Museum of Scotland said it was the first hoard of James III farthings to be found since 1919.

Metal detectorists need to ask for permission from landowners to search on their land and anything they find must be handed into the Treasure Trove for analysis and recording.

Under Scottish law all finds of archaeological, historical or cultural significance must be reported and can be claimed by the Crown.

Neither detectorists nor landowners have ownership rights to any archaeological finds made in Scotland. Finds that are allocated to a museum through the Treasure Trove system are usually acknowledged by an award paid to the detectorist.

Detectorists generally split the money with the landowner.

Mr Baxter has detected at many sites, all of which he keeps a closely guarded secret. They include the 14-acre fields in Fife where he has now found more than 500 pieces ranging from the Bronze Age to the medieval period.

"I go along to farmers' doors with my portfolio of previous finds and show them what I do and ask them for permission to detect on their land," he said.

"You try to make yourself presentable, you put gel in your hair and wash your car and turn up in nice clothes.

"I hate getting permission because it's quite awkward speaking to the landowner. Farmers are busy and the last thing they want to do is speak to a wee guy asking for metal detecting permission."

The James III hoard has been put into the British numismatics journal, which charts the best finds in the country.

It also includes two Balliol coins which Mr Baxter discovered at the site in Fife. These farthings are extremely rare and are the only two to have ever been found in Scotland.

John Balliol reigned as king of Scotland from 1292 to 1296.

The find was allocated to the National Museums of Scotland and £5,000 was paid out.

Mr Baxter has also found 69 medieval coins from the reign of English King Edward I, whose armies invaded Scotland at the end of the 13th Century.

The medieval ring, which was his first find on the Fife site, dates between the 13th and 14th century.

"Initially I thought it was a bottle top because when it came out of the ground I could see the silver edges," Mr Baxter said.

"I saw the writing at the side and the big clasped hands at the front and I thought: 'That's a medieval ring'.

"It was just a great feeling to see it because it was a sunny day and it was twinkling away and it was in really good condition because it's been coated in gold, which has protected it from the soil."

Mr Baxter, who works as a lab technician, said he believed it was a betrothal ring.

"It would have been a higher status individual who owned it," he said.

"It weighs 9.5g, it's a heavy piece. A medieval penny would weigh about 1.2g, so that's about seven medieval pennies, so it wouldn't have been a peasant who owned that at the time."

The ring is silver but it has been coated in gold. It was eight inches down in the ground when his detector picked it up.

Mr Baxter, who has written a book entitled Making history: My Life As a Scottish Metal Detectorist, said it was hard for people to understand how difficult it was to find ancient artefacts.

He said: "In a general field 90% of the time there will be nothing in it.

"You could go in all the fields on the right and left along the M9 from Falkirk to Edinburgh and there would be nothing in them apart from modern Victorian stuff or Georgian stuff.

"It's hard to get stuff that's beyond 500 and 600 years old because the population was a lot lower."

Mr Baxter said a field could be full of medieval items, but detectors were not going to find them if the crops were too high.

"Then it comes down to knowledge and the best conditions," he said.

"You need to know that the crops need to be soft cut.

"Barley and wheat is softer than oats. When oats get cut the stubble is really hard.

"And obviously the carrot harvest was the best."

By Angie Brown.

#Carrot Harvest Helped Metal Detectorist FindA Ancient Coins Hoard #Alan Baxter #Scottish King James III #coin hoard #coin collecting #hoard of farthings #metal detecting #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #medieval #middle ages #dark ages

[scotland]

The Kelpies, Falkirk 🐴

#Scotland #Scottish #travel #uk #photography #scenery #travelinspiration #United Kingdom #TheKelpies #Falkirk #metal sculptures #sculptures #horses

[blackmetalnature]

The Frosty Scottish Highlands

#scottish highlands #snow #scotland #ireland #highlands #celtic witch #celts #europe #scottish winter #winter #european winter #paganism #black metal

[doomedandstoned]

Austin’s AIWASS Resurrect  Scottish Folk Song ‘Cruel Brother’ in New Single

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

By Billy Goate

Artwork by gozien_crayon

It has been estimated that some four million new songs are being released into the world of sound every year. Certainly, it's been hard -- neigh, impossible -- to keep up with all the new albums churned out just in the doom scene. As a consequence, it is all too easy to loose touch with the great songs of the past. I'm not talking about songs from the '70s, '80s or '90s, but those written generations and generations ago, stretching back into Medieval and Renaissance times.

That's why it's so refreshing to encounter a band taking on an old Scottish ballad like the one before us. Taking a cue from Battlefield Band, the traditional folk group who brought "Cruel Brother" to a wider audience decades ago, Austin, Texas band AIWASS gives this tragic tale a unique twist.

Dark, moody synthesizer surrounds the senses as the track begins, as if to transport us hundreds of years into the past to a scene unthinkable: a dying bride, a spiteful brother, a grieving knight, and an atmosphere teeming with sadness and revenge. Gently plucked mandolin strings cross with acoustic guitar. Misty, forlorn vocals tell the tale of love found and lost, eventually engaging the full powers of the doom metal quartet, complete with foreboding drums and bluesy, bittersweet guitar riffs.

Frontman Blake Carrera comments:

The themes of the song, despite being an old Scottish ballad, are quite familiar to listeners of doom and metal in general: love, lust, violence, and loss. By reinterpreting this song, we hope to bring the past into the future. The screams at the end of the song are not just an identification that this is “blackened doom”; they are also the screams of loss and sadness that are perpetuated throughout time by all of us.

Aiwass caught my ear during the pandemic, when we premiered and gave a detailed review of their first LP Wayward Gods. Since then, the band has expanded with founding member Blake Carrera (vox, guitar, mandolin, synth) joined by Eddy Keyes (vox, acoustic guitar, bass), Pablo Anton (guitar), and Grant Husselman (drums). As a result, the Aiwass sound has evolved into something wonderfully nuanced and altogether powerful.

"Cruel Brother" will be issued as a standalone single on Friday, March 28th (get it here). Fans of Green Lung, take notice

Give ear...

AIWASS - Cruel Brother

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LYRICS

[Verse 1] There were three ladies played at baw Hey wi the rose and the linsey o But a knight cam by, played ower them aw Doun by the greenwood sidie o

[Verse 2] This knight bowed low tae aw the three Hey wi the rose and the linsey o But tae the youngest, he bent his knee Doun by the greenwood sidie o

[Verse 3] O lady fair, gie me your haun' Hey wi the rose and the linsey o And I'll mak ye lady ower aw my land Doun by the greenwood sidie o

[Verse 4] Sir knight, ere you my favour win Hey wi the rose and the linsey o Ye maun gain consent ower all my kin Doun by the greenwood sidie o

[Verse 5] He gained consent fae her parents dear Hey wi the rose and the linsey o And likewise fae her sisters fair Doun by the greenwood sidie o

[Verse 6] He's gained consent ower all her kin Hey wi the rose and the linsey o He forgot tae speak tae her brother John Doun by the greenwood sidie o

[Verse 7] When the wedding day was come Hey wi the rose and the linsey o This knight would take his bonnie bride home Doun by the greenwood sidie o

[Verse 8] Her mother led her through the closs Hey wi the rose and the linsey o And her brother John stood her on her horse Doun by the greenwood sidie o

[Verse 9] He took a knife baith long and sharp And he stabbed the bonnie bride tae her heart

[Verse 10] Lead me tae yon high, high hill Hey wi the rose and the linsey o And I'll lie doun and I'll mak my will Doun by the greenwood sidie o

[Verse 11] And what will ye gie tae your brother John Hey wi the rose and the linsey o The gallows tree for tae hang him on Doun by the greenwood sidie o

[Verse 12] And what will ye gie to your brother John's wife Hey wi the rose and the linsey o The wilderness tae end her life Doun by the greenwood sidie o

#D&S Debuts #Aiwass #Austin #Texas #folk #doom metal #Cruel Brother #Scottish ballad #D&S Reviews #Doomed and Stoned

[seumascowan]

KbCaliUL W2-D2

This morn's session had me gasping at the end. Had to start a bit earlier today, bloody work gettin' in the way, so ate breakfast a lil earlier to compensate. Otherwise just circuit nonsense as per usual.

Circuits x3: HS wall walks x4 (added) Para frogtstands x20sec count SLDL (2x 16kg) x8 Weightvest ring push-ups (+9.5kg) x11 Ab rollouts x11 Bulgarian ring dips x6 6 5 Inc db flys (2x 10lb) x11 Kb clean/press (2x 20kg) x4

Onto Hellripper! Fucking Hellripper, man. Probably the best blackened thrash going on right now. James and the band are producing just fucking bananas-ass riffs and amazing sounds. Absolulely love my Scottish brothas! GoatKvlt FTW!

#fitblr #fitness #dungeon gym #health & fitness #vegetarian lifter #training #workout #calisthenics #fitfam #kettlebells #kettlebell training #KbCaliUL #upper lower split #push pull legs #fitness program #bandcamp #blackened thrash #thrash metal #hellripper #scottish metal #goat kvlt

[excelsior9173]

finally got around to listening to empire state bastard’s record…

it slaps so hard. they’re going to be so much fun opening for sleep token! i really hope the crowd goes hard for them because i think they’d be a really fun mosh band

also did not know esb was both a very new band but also a supergroup? epic shit

#ramble on exie #empire state bastard #sleep token #teeth of god tour #had no idea what to expect but i figured from the name they’d be heavy #it’s an excellent screamo/metal/punk vibe #also they are scottish! very scottish! my favourite accent!

[philosopheme]

Saor

#scotland #scottish metal #black metal #ukbm #scottish music #fortress festival

[nassauband]

Behold!

Blog? Well, fuck ok. Introductions I guess. We are Nassau. We hail from Scotland and play metal of different flavours. We have a bit of a thing for transdimensional / cosmological horror. Two singles out and an album round the corner but plenty of live material online. Social media is on fire a bit atm so thought we would swing over this way and see what the fuss was about.

#metal #technical metal #melodic metal #horror #cosmological horror #makecastleshardtosiegeagain #death metal #Nassau #Metal Nassau #Nassau Band #Scottish Metal

[northatlasarchive]

Strawboy - from The Longest Shadow Attached To The Ankle: North Atlas

#north atlas #northatlas #scottish indie #indie rock #scottish rock #scottish music #industrial #metal #north atlas band #strawboy #straw boy #pagan #witchy vibes #witchy aesthetic

[manicpanicpixienightmare]

I don’t do girl math, I do grandma math.

#sewing #knitting #‘if I don’t buy this $2 tablecloth I’m LOSING money’ #‘when am I going to find this much wool for $5?’ #WAIT HILY SHIT I’m NOW REALIZING I PROBABLY GOT ENOUGH WOOL TO MAKE A KILT #(estate sale had other scottish things and like a neat metal bagpipe guy) #anyway #this post brought to you by #girl math #when a meme gets too infantilizing and misogynistic #ACCELERATE your metamorphosis into a little old lady who has doilies