Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Saturday November 21, The Limelight 2, Belfast, 7pm
IT'S a gig clash of epic proportions: US metalheads Clutch will play The Limelight tomorrow night even as English doomlords Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats conduct their own heavy riff-based rituals next door at the more compact and bijou Limelight 2.
So, what to do? Well, short of running back and forth between the venues, you're just going to have to choose and perish.
Helpfully, Clutch is already long sold-out, so those without tickets for them can instead console themselves at the cloven feet of Uncle Acid and co.
Last seen round these parts in 2013 supporting key influence Black Sabbath at the venue formerly known as The Odyssey Arena, fans of groovy heviousity will be right at home amid the Cambridgeshire-spawned group's video abundance of pounding rock rhythms and hypnotic guitar fireworks.
They have tunes too: their stalker anthem Melody Lane sounds not unlike the work of a Satanic Beatles.
It's just one of the highlights from Uncle Acid's thunderously psychedelic new LP The Night Creeper, a film noir and horror-inspired concept album based around the copper looming from its cover.
"The story is about a serial killer policeman going around this sleazy part of the city killing off all of these people," explains Uncle Acid himself, singer Kevin Starrs.
"He is getting away with it because he has the press and the police on his side."
Discover if he finally gets his just desserts tomorrow night.
:: Tickets £14 from Limelightbelfast.com or in person at Katy's Bar.
