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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

Hesper Payne / Sabazius – Under The Alum Shale (Loathsome Unclean Music)

Two bands, two tracks and 65 minutes of music! This is what we have from two of the UK’s stygian doom clad Lovecraft worshippers. This is a tribute to the Old Ones, embracing the mythos and the madness in musical… Continue Reading →

Royal Arch Blaspheme – II (Hells Headbangers)

I got this album quite some time before the release date which can be a blessing in disguise. It’s good as it allows you to get to grips with the music a bit better but when it is as foul… Continue Reading →

Shining – Lots Of Girls Gonna Get Hurt (Spinefarm)

After album ‘VII: Född Förlorare,’ which had a cover song by Landberk on it Shining released a single for Förtvivlan, Min Arvedel with another cover of Alice Cooper’s ‘Prince Of Darkness’. Obviously caught by the covers bug, now we have… Continue Reading →

Municipal Waste, Freebase, Mutant & Hybris – London Dingwalls 10/7/12

This was a last second show for me hence no camera pass and photos but that gave me more time for drinking and thrashing, well it should have done as far as the latter is concerned but I am at… Continue Reading →

Iblis – Menthell (D.T.M. Productions)

Going through a batch of discs that had turned up from Poland I noticed the somewhat tripped out cover for this one, the fact that the band name was impossible to read (but not in standard bm iconography) and that… Continue Reading →

Thou Shalt Not Kill …. Except – Josh Becker (Synapse)

At last! This is a film that I have been waiting for a long time to get a decent release and finally Synapse have gone and delivered the goods so I was able to get my nth generation and pretty… Continue Reading →

Yakuza Hunters: The Revenge Duel in Hell – Shinichi Okuda (Cine Du Monde)

I was quite kind to the first Yakuza Hunters movie but it was a lot of fun and I could not fault the bevy of beauties in it or the throwback style to 70s Pinky Violence movies. I ended off… Continue Reading →

Adam Chaplin – Emanuele De Santi (Scanbox)

The Italian horror film industry really died on its arse, there is no other nicer way to put it. Although prolific for decades from the works of Mario Bava through to the Cannibal and Zombie crazes of the video nasty… Continue Reading →

Kong – Merchants Of Air (Kongenial)

Instrumental bands, a bit of a turn off? A group who just cannot find a decent singer? A bit of a hipster fad from a band trying desperately to be in vogue? Well yes and no as so many get… Continue Reading →

Borgne – Royaume des Ombres (Sepulchral Productions)

Borgne are not part of the Quebecois black metal scene championed by this label but are very closely affiliated and the first signed group from outside the area signed by Sepulchral Productions. Coming from Europe, Switzerland to be precise, Bornyhake… Continue Reading →

Degial – Death’s Striking Wings (Sepulchral Voice Records)

It sounds like death and looks like black, as for what it smells of, well rotten meat no doubt. Hailing from Sweden and keeping things very morbid Degial who have been around since 2004 are only just getting round to… Continue Reading →

Sanguine – Live (SR)

Sanguine have been very active on the live front, I have not caught them myself but they have played as support band to plenty of big hitting acts and festivals as diverse as Ibiza Hard Rock Hell and Download (one… Continue Reading →

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