Did we mention a new site in our last editorial way back last April? Yes we did and it seems like this was aeons ago. Thankfully though after what seemed forever and with people letting us down again and again we found the person to build the new site the way we envisaged it with almost bionic skill, speed and dexterity. Without the help of Steve Williams of Creative Rogue Designs www.creativerogue.co.uk we would have been cast adrift here in cyberspace the old school way. Obviously the plug is that we cannot recommend his skills enough and if any bands, PR companies or any of our readers has any requirements on having a new website built check his page out and get in touch.
Technology has thankfully evolved and so it is with great pleasure we can finally unveil our brand new spanking site and ask you to bookmark it now at www.avenoctum.com
This means there will be a fair few changes but all as far as we are concerned for the better. Our addresses and contact details remain the same and our coverage criteria and submissions policy can be viewed in detail over at our About Us Page
We are centring less on the ‘metal’ tag and more on music with an extreme and atmospheric emphasis. There will be less cock and rock and more eerie and ethereal. Of course metal will be very much part of what we do but we also want to embrace our inner goth, industrial and punk selves with it.
Films are something that the editors of the site love too and this is another part of where the ‘extreme’ tag comes in. We will be exploring the underground and the transgressive, the taboo and the downright dangerous. We appreciate that this may not be to all tastes but you can feel free to hide from this area of content and stick to the music if you so wish. After all, some of us got into this from hiding behind the sofa when Dr Who was on in the first place.
The other thing we love about the new site is that it is more interactive. Every article and review has a comment box and you can add what you think of what we have written or the album / film we are writing about yourself. We hope you will like it but are prepared to suffer the blows too but hopefully there won’t be too many of them.
This site will no longer be updated and will for the time being remain as an archival receptacle of all past material. We hope you will continue to pop back and use it as a resource in the future, but without further ado, come on over to www.avenoctum.com and check us out. New material will be appearing on an almost daily basis there.
Pete Woods ex assistant editor MTUK!
