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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

Munruthel – Epoch Of Aquarius (Svarga Music / Gardarika Musikk)

I was very happy to receive an invite to hear and review this album as it is quite the missing link in the artist’s repertoire and is considered a classic of Ukrainian Folk Pagan Metal. Of course Munruthel has been… Continue Reading →

Dylath Leen – Cabale (Great Dane)

Taking their name from an H.P. Lovecraft fictional city and looking at the cover (brilliantly visualised by Seth Siron Anton) and title maybe a bit of Clive Barker too, I was intrigued to hear what this band sounded like. The… Continue Reading →

Neptune Towers – Caravans To Empire Algol / Transmissions From Empire Algol (Peaceville)

More welcome re-issues from Peaceville here and I was stoked to receive these as had not heard them for a long time. Neptune Towers is the work of Fenriz of Darkthrone and shows him experimenting in a very different style… Continue Reading →

Darkthrone – Holy Darkthrone Tribute (Peaceville)

You have to laugh at the liner notes here, which say that with ten years of Darkthrone in the offing the label wanted to release a best of compilation but the band responded saying they would make a back-patch to… Continue Reading →

Haiduk – Spellbook (SR)

Hailing from the frozen forests of Canada we have an artist with a Spellbook. This is a one man entity with everything played and vocalised by Luka Milojica and it states on the biog that themes are “magic, evil, nature… Continue Reading →

Unmothered – ST (SR)

Not so sure about not giving this album a self title I would have plumped for ‘Bastard.’ Unmothered – Bastard would be a perfect combo. So what exactly have we got here then? Well this is the first release from… Continue Reading →

Nachtmystium – Silencing Machine (Century Media)

No doubt if you are a fan you have been hearing that the new Nachtmystium album is a departure from the psychedelic strangeness of the two ‘Black Meddle’ discs and a return to ‘Instinct Decay,’ even a natural follow up… Continue Reading →

Blood Of The Black Owl – Light The Fires (Bindrune Recordings)

One thing you should be fully aware of before listening to this and anything from Washington natives Blood Of The Black Owl is that it will take you on a spiritual journey; Light The Fires is no exception. The second… Continue Reading →

Interview – Shining – Niklas Kvarforth

  As far as depressive blackened textures are concerned there are few more adept at painting them musically than the Swedish band Shining. Perhaps for some the thought of approaching the music is too off putting as dwelling on the… Continue Reading →

Nechochwen – OtO (Bindrune Recordings)

According to the band the title if translated could mean “ancestor” and OtO focuses on the guidance our ancestors bring to us in modern times. Well considering what we have heard in the past fromWest Virginiaduo Nechochwen like their last… Continue Reading →

Shadows Fall – Fire From The Sky (Spinefarm)

Damn this is such an annoying album, just like all the others from Shadows Fall. I started playing it with an air of elitism thinking “yeah used to quite enjoy them when I was younger but now I have totally… Continue Reading →

Unspeakable – Chad Ferrin (Cine Du Monde)

This film company has been releasing a few of Chad Ferrin’s films such as Easter Bunny Kill Kill, The Ghouls and this his first movie made at the age of 24 in 2000. I have to admit to not having… Continue Reading →

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