Luna Kafe
Macrocosmica/Eska/Aereogramme
Nice 'n' Sleazy's, Glasgow, July 17th 1999


And so to Macrocosmica, headlining and gratifyingly retaining most of the audience, if not all the photographers. Their genre preference is Very Metal and although they've tempered (!) their sound of late they do still sound like Ozzy Osbourne meeting a Sherman tank head-on. The audience were doubtless gratified to hear that they have gone back to a mix of tunes along with frighteningly noisy rhythms, like on their groundbreaking Ad Astra album (many had feared that their death metal direction of late was more than a passing phase). The dictionary definition of 'stealth' says that "detection via sonar is made difficult, and progress is imperceptible"... Macrocosmica more than the others fail to meet that definition, but you wouldn't miss any of the bands in a crowd.