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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

Tomorrow’s Rain – Hollow (AOP Records)

Part of the Israeli metal scene since 2002 when formed as Moonskin by founding member Yishai Sweartz it is no surprise to hear that Tomorrow’s Rain has had in past line-up members of Salem and Orphaned Land through their doors…. Continue Reading →

Foretoken – Ruin (Prosthetic)

Throwing everything but the kitchen sink (and sometimes even that) into your overall sound can be a recipe for disaster and you have to be an accomplished musician to pull it off and not have the result sounding like an… Continue Reading →

Ulver – Flowers Are Evil (House Of Mythology)

“We are wolves,” state Ulver and let’s go with that for now and contemplate their position in the grand scheme of things along with the music on this their 16th studio album and new book “Wolves Evolve The Story of… Continue Reading →

Law Of Contagion – Woeful Litanies From The Nether Realms (Moribund)

Well we know all about Contagion right now and we have lots of laws to follow due to it. No doubt this is a namely coincidence from Ishkur the man behind this Portuguese blackened death project but it is certainly… Continue Reading →

Blood Red Fog – Fields Of Sorrow (Deviant Records)

Festering for over 15 years these Finns have been growing ever more confident in their ghastly art and it has been good watching them grow. Having 4 albums, a host of split releases and even a compilation and live album… Continue Reading →

WalDStreeT – Northeast (Haarbn)

Russian label Haarbn Production have an interesting and niche roster of releases. Things pop up from them very occasionally and to date they have only 38 albums to their name. What I have noticed is that despite often containing a… Continue Reading →

Walkabout – Nicolas Roeg (Second Sight Films)

Ah what a film to watch on a sweltering day, the heat floods off the screen and the arid imagery is enough to leave you gasping whatever the weather. Walkabout is quite simply a classic and one of many from… Continue Reading →

Expander – Neuropunk Boostergang (Profound Lore)

This quartet from Austin Texas caught my attention with last album Endless Computer on Nuclear War Now in 2017. They had a mutoid, squat-Atompunk sound that twisted and turned all over the place and was quite a weird sounding trip… Continue Reading →

Throneum – Oh Death… Oh Death… Determinate, Preach and Lead Us Astray.. (Godz Ov War)

Stalwarts of the Polish scene, Throneum have been around in one form or another since way back in 1996 and have a huge array of releases leading up to this their tenth album. Paths should certainly have crossed anyone into… Continue Reading →

Havukruunu – Uinuos syömein sota (Naturmacht)

Yep this is Finnish but boy listening to it there is a good chance you will get transported off to the Wild West and the lawless frontiers. Perhaps that is due to the fact that it has been the musical… Continue Reading →

Barbaric Horde – Axe Of Superior Savagery (Godz Ov War)

Can a horde be just 2 people? Well if they make a racket like this band I think saying “no” would be a moot point and rest assured this album is certainly barbaric. Hailing from Lisbon Portugal these anonymous “gasmask… Continue Reading →

Mortis Mutilati – The Fate Of Flight 800 (S/R)

Now I am sure I vaguely remember French act Mortis Mutilati although having lost digital files from before 2013 can’t quite remember where from. Their logo and the cover art from second album Nameless Here For Evermore which was released… Continue Reading →

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