Author Pete Woods
Scroll down for photo gallery “Brilliant” is the word uttered from the mouth of the singer of Shocks Of Mighty as he looks out from the stage realising that the audience had not even reached double figures. Most were still… Continue Reading →
Diamond Lil eh? Sounds like a right character, perhaps from around the old East End, a lady not to be messed with as she may cut you with a blade just like a diamond. She is a fearsome character a… Continue Reading →
This is an album I have been trying to put internet pen to paper down for a while but it keeps making me to come back for another listen and it is not a short album either. Acacia on paper… Continue Reading →
Watching Slayer at a festival the other day and seeing them go through the motions playing all their classics I was suddenly reminded by the song ‘Dead Skin Mask’ that I had the pleasure of looking forward to watching Deranged… Continue Reading →
I think it is fair to say this is probably the most highly anticipated black metal release of the year especially as it is three years since the last epic album ‘Lawless Darkness’ saw the light! Watain are an enigma… Continue Reading →
A gloomy cover with a beautiful unblemished face looming out from amidst the autumnal leaves of a shallow grave and an album title called ‘Glad To Be Dead.’ There’s something poetic about the concept and that’s before we get anywhere… Continue Reading →
A defective divine form sounds like the stuff of nightmares as would have been receiving a batch of discs from Solitude Productions which did not include at least one Russian funeral doom band. Luckily amidst the treasures that they sent,… Continue Reading →
Back at the beginning of 2011 a rather strange album ‘The Kudos Of Serial Killing’ by Section 37 fired up my mental cortex as it was a rather unique way of musically getting beneath the skin of the serial killer…. Continue Reading →
The Italians do like setting up strange shrouded musical cults. The likes of early Death SS, Opera IX and Mortuary Drape fit that bill well, playing stygian, witch-coven blackened metal summoned from the very bowels of hell exclusively. Here is… Continue Reading →
In the last of these reflections on ambient experimentation, audio seismologist Vaarwel really shakes things up. The 39 minute one track album has a droning sound on a low frequency rumbling through the entire length of the piece. Does it… Continue Reading →
It’s been a very long time in fact 2008 album Deeper Visions was the last thing we heard from NFD and they have not played a show for a long time either. Typically they announced one in London with some… Continue Reading →
You may not recognise the name Larry Stewart but if you were growing up in the late 70’s early 80’s and liked genre television you no doubt watched some of the shows he was involved in. These included some real… Continue Reading →