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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

Junkie Kut – The Hierarchy Enslaving You (Unrepresented Music)

Ah my friends, this is music to dance to, a wardance, indeed! Junkie Kut is an odd name and is of an artist who dabbles in high electronic psalms, forged for the disenfranchised and downtrodden in society. This is music… Continue Reading →

Hawkwind – Onward (Plastichead)

There is always going to be a certain amount of nostalgia involved in reviewing a Hawkwind album, well they have been around since forever (1969 to be precise). I have fond memories of walking into my local record shop on… Continue Reading →

Absu, Impiety & Necronomicon – London Underworld 12/4/12

With all the hipsters off at Roadburn it was only the true kvlt elite filing into the Underworld tonight, indeed the main bar area of the venue was closed off so it really felt like an intimate affair. With a… Continue Reading →

Naglfar – Téras (Century Media)

I have been into Naglfar since a friend put their first full length album Vittra on a cassette for me back in 1995. I was swept away by the grandiose melodies and complexities of the heavily involving songs. I should… Continue Reading →

The Divide – Xavier Gens (Momentum Pictures)

French director Xavier Gens really caught my attention with his excellent piece of survival horror Frontier(s) 2007. This was a film that came seething out the underbelly of French new wave horror putting the country right on the map with… Continue Reading →

The Wretched End- Inroads (Nocturnal Art Productions)

The Wretched End started life in 2008 as a collaboration between Emperor/Zyklon’s Samoth, Cosmo of Mindgrinder and ex-Dark Funeral sticksman Nils Fjellström. Second full-length ‘Inroads’ is a very straightforward album, a mechanical mash-up of sharp and clinical blackened DM riffs… Continue Reading →

Killing Joke – MMXII (Spinefarm)

If you thought you had escaped from me wittering on about just how good the new Killing Joke album is, think again. The simple fact is that I only got it myself on release day and needed time to digest… Continue Reading →

Concrete Lung – Die Dreaming (Armalyte)

Although breaking our rules a tad and reviewing a single, how could we not when we get it sent to us on nice green vinyl and backed up on CD just in case the reviewer has no turntable? In this… Continue Reading →

Electric Wizard, Witchsorrow, Pursun & Age Of Taurus – London Forum 31/3/12

It has to be said that this is the first show that I have been to in quite some time where I find myself temporarily deaf the next morning. There is a fuzzy sound in my ears and everything sounds… Continue Reading →

Yakuza Hunters 1 – Kazushi Nakadaira (Cine Du Monde)

Fed up with being torn to pieces in Japanese genre cinema such as ‘Guinea Pig Flowers Of Flesh And Blood’ and ‘Guts Of A Virgin’ what we need is the other side of the coin with sisters getting some of… Continue Reading →

Secrets Of The Moon – Seven Bells (Prophecy)

If you have been looking around for reviews for this one and not found many it is due to the label not making promo available to anyone until the release date. This of course stops the album from being leaked… Continue Reading →

Kommandant – The Draconian Archetype (ATMF)

Chicagoans Kommandant first fired across my bows with their Kontakt EP back in 2010 via Planet Metal Records. At the time I declared that the disc gave me a cataclysmic short sharp shock and left me wanting more and finally… Continue Reading →

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