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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

Revenge – Scum Collapse Eradication. (Osmose)

Extremity is, after all, our middle name and on this fledgling website we like to spread it about as much as possible. So a month and a half off the ground, I was wondering what was the most extreme band… Continue Reading →

The Last Cry – Walking To The Edge (A Day Like Today)

The Last Cry is a name I have seen doing the rounds and it is no surprise considering some of the bands they have shared a stage with; The Mission, The Damned, Gene Loves Jezebel and Anne Marie Hurst to… Continue Reading →

Ministry – Relapse (13th Planet)

Right Al whether you want a ‘rantology’ or not here comes mine! What the blue rinse fuck are you up to man? First we get all this crap spouted from you about the group being over, for good, forever, never… Continue Reading →

Cadaveria – Interview

Cadaveria ‘the singer’ first came to my attention on hearing the mystical and haunting black symphony that was Opera IX 1995 album ‘The Call Of The Wood.’ The somewhat pagan delights of that album fair sent a chill down my… Continue Reading →

Aura Noir – Deep Tracts Of Hell (Peaceville)

Good timing for this reissue of the second album by Aura Noir as they are just about to unleash their brand new opus ‘Out To Die’ via Indie Recordings. The core trio of musicians should need no introduction at all… Continue Reading →

Four Flies On Grey Velvet – Dario Argento (Shameless Screen Entertainment)

The one thing that is not mentioned on this release of seminal director Dario Argento’s third movie by Shameless is just what a coup they have pulled off getting it out there. Back in the days that video were an… Continue Reading →

Akphaezya – Anthology IV: The Tragedy Of Nerak (Code 666)

The last and debut album by French and hard to pronounce band Akphaezya fair did my noggin in back in 2008. It was a mad mixture of all sorts of styles, thrown together in a melting pot of confusion but whilst… Continue Reading →

Alkerdeel – Morinde (Consouling Sounds)

It figures that on their website Alkerdeel have posted an album preview to a visual scene from Belgian horror film Calvaire (reviewed elsewhere on this site). This Belgian lot have made a point of noting that this release is in… Continue Reading →

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing – This May Be The Reason… (Leather Apron)

Or to give the preposterously entitled album it’s full name ‘This May Be The Reason The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Weapons!’ With a title like that we really do need to… Continue Reading →

Lord Mantis – Pervertor (Candlelight)

‘Spawning The Nephilim’ the 2009 debut album from Lord Mantis must have escaped me but obviously it must have had some good points to get the group signed from a more obscure label to Candlelight Records. The Chicago based band… Continue Reading →

Seagulls Insane and Swans Deceased Mining Out the Void – S/T (Witching Hour)

There’s nothing like a short, snappy band name and album title that rolls gently off the tongue to attract readers’ attention, right? It may seem a tad pretentious, and I think this duo used up all their vocabulary naming the… Continue Reading →

A Look ‘Inside’ – French Extremity Part Two

Having looked at the origins of French genre cinema and seen that a proactive Gallic style in both sleaze and gore quickly emerged we are now heading to a time where any subtle sensibilities were dispatched with and a seriously… Continue Reading →

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