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Author Pete Woods

Quickly discovering in formative years that I was never quite going to fit in anywhere, I spent time growing up listening to punk, futurist, goth, industrial, metal and psychedelic sounds ranging from Hawkwind to The Sex Gang Children via Japan through to Crass mangled in with Psychic TV and New Model Army. Catching my first band live by accident; The Poison Girls at a G.L.C. free festival, I never looked back. Musical tastes have developed accordingly and I now spend time writing for both Terrorizer and Dominion magazine as well as co-running www.avenoctum.com and pushing the boundaries of genre definition to mould around my own eclectic tastes. Not having the patience to play any instrument myself, I see my writing, to a certain degree as putting something back into the music I love. If I didn't spend time doing this I would be an alcoholic slumped without hope on the cold streets of London. Instead I can be found pint, camera and notepad in hand covering bands both old and new and will happily accept free cider without

Germ – Grief (Eisenwald)

Yes as far as germs are concerned this is probably the only one that is welcome as I am sitting coughing and spluttering away as I write this. Not that it is any less virulent when it comes to invading… Continue Reading →

Tor Marrock – Destroy The Soul (Black Vulture Records)

It has been a long time since we had any new material from Welsh band Tor Marrock but then again they have always been somewhat elusive, doing things at their own pace and then popping up and surprising with some… Continue Reading →

Australasia – Vertebra (Immortal Frost Productions)

These sparkly post-gazers first caught my attention just over a year ago with their debut mini album Sin4tr4 on Golden Morning Sounds. Now with Immortal Frost Productions they have expanded upon their lush and sometimes fragile soundscapes to bring out… Continue Reading →

Oranssi Pazuzu – Valonielu (Svart)

I reckon that Svart have a secret chemical lab somewhere and keep manufacturing strange strains of LSD and feeding them to hermits in the Finnish woodlands, bunging them a few instruments, recording the results and then releasing on an unsuspecting… Continue Reading →

Euglena – Близость (Basement Apes Industries)

Although normally ignoring them completely I could do with the PR blurb for this one but realise that it was a double sided one which was sent out with another release from the label. Work is cut out a bit… Continue Reading →

Hellhate – Retsonretap (Immortal Frost Productions)

Vile, grim, violent and frostbitten black metal from the irradiated wastelands of Lysychansk in the Ukraine here. Of course it might be a lovely place and all that but on typing it into Google I see third hit is all… Continue Reading →

Culture Shock & Supports – Bristol Trinity Centre 5/10/13

Bit of a history lesson here as there is a lot behind the headliners. Culture Shock were a more dance/ ska offshoot of anarcho punk band The Subhumans and were hugely respected, releasing a handful of albums and EP’s and… Continue Reading →

Cold Cell – Generation Abomination (Gravity Entertainment)

Clocking the band name and album title I instantly had an idea in my head that this lot were going to be filthy cyber black metal in line with the likes of Aborym and Blacklodge. Of course I was partly… Continue Reading →

Stortregn – Evocation Of Light (Great Dane)

In the latest edition of ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Swedish’ we actually have a band from Switzerland, Stortregn. Everything about this album screams at me that it comes from the Swedish black and death metal scene of about 15… Continue Reading →

Fanthrash – Apocalypse Cyanide (SR)

Billed as one of the first thrash metal bands to form in Poland way back in 1986 it certainly took Fanthrash a while before release of first album ‘Duality Of Things’ in 2011. 25 years must be some sort of… Continue Reading →

Volgna-Gath – Demo 2013 (SR)

For the moment the obscure sounding Volgna-Gath come enshrouded in as much mystery as is lurking within the pea-soup fog billowing out of my window on this cold autumnal morning. They come armed with a devilish LaVeyan mission statement proclaiming… Continue Reading →

Mortuary Drape – Buried In Time (Peaceville)

I had quite a hard time with my last and first encounter with Mortuary Drape which was the recent Peaceville re-issue of third album ‘Tolling 13 Knell’ originally released in 2000. Now the label have similarly re-activated the cult Italian… Continue Reading →

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