Author Pete Woods
The touch of romantic, atmospheric doom spreads far and is not synonymous with the cold rain cobbled streets of Yorkshire even if its frozen fronds spread from there. In fact I am sure the climate could not be much further… Continue Reading →
It’s back to the 70’s tonight and we could have been trooping into The Music Machine or The Rainbow to see some fresh new bands, reeking of patchouli and covered in beads. But no we were fuelled by beer rather… Continue Reading →
This is an absolutely gorgeous collection of songs and I really hope saying so at the start of a review does not lose half of its readers. If you are still here, do stay, as if you are new to… Continue Reading →
I first clashed heads with Pasadena Napalm Division on their P.N.D. EP back in 2010. Lot of fun it was too and I was glad to meet their acquaintance and all that malarkey. Not that they were all complete strangers… Continue Reading →
Although by name Tinto Brass may sound like a cleaning product the films by the Italian director are quite the opposite and normally rather dirty. But that’s the way we like them! Born in 1933 he is still quite disrespectfully… Continue Reading →
Two of the finest bands of their ilk Blood Ceremony and Jex Thoth are both poised on releasing new albums within a couple of weeks of each other so if you are a fan of female fronted, occult doom you… Continue Reading →
A nice underground bill tonight with the headliners coming all the way from Israel for the promoters first international show and three British bands adding some good support. First up were Decrepid who were in full swing when I got… Continue Reading →
Almost 30 years and 15 albums now from Skinny Puppy and if you find yourself missing them for any amount of time there are always solo releases popping up from frontman Nivek Ogre under his ohGr moniker. ‘Weapon’ is the… Continue Reading →
Ok who has gone and sent me the world’s smallest pizza and what sort of topping does an Arrogant Destruktor contain? Lift the lid and oh silly me, of course it’s actually a CD but damn it now at 9am… Continue Reading →
The geek in me just loves reading about and watching documentaries about genre films so this was a no brainer that I was eager to get to grips with. Director Calum Waddell is well known to fans of horror movies… Continue Reading →
Verminous German Orthodox, Satan Worshiping Surrealist Black Metal anyone? Well that is exactly what we have here from Essen based Paria who are a new band to me. Having been around since 1995 it took them seven years to get… Continue Reading →
20 years and album number ten, the one thing that you have to say about Dark Tranquillity is that they are consistent. Reliable too and this is the very important thing to those of us who love this sort of… Continue Reading →