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Post by vaelvictus on Feb 28, 2009 2:03:03 GMT
Say, will Tenements be... heavier? I hate to be a poop, but I just couldn't get into Urfe. At least, not without the lyrics... I love Axis for the pure horror, and I just didn't feel it with Urfe.  |
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Post by The Moderator on Feb 28, 2009 13:05:53 GMT
I'm not going to answer that question right now except to say that "Tenements" will not be like "Urfe". We have no intention of making the same album twice, ever. Our goals for the "Tenements" album remain the same as they have been since we started planning it, two weeks after the release of "Deleted Scenes".
Mmm, non-committal...
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Post by ljosalfur on Feb 28, 2009 17:50:09 GMT
Urfe = Godlike.
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Post by Skydancer on Mar 2, 2009 19:02:46 GMT
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Post by thanatos on Mar 2, 2009 23:03:22 GMT
Thanks. I've read through it again and realized that I've made some stupid mistakes here and there but I can't be arsed to go and fix it up. I'll be trying my hand at The Great Unwashed soon.
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Post by Darkcrawl on Mar 3, 2009 18:37:25 GMT
I figure I'd probably aught to put this up at some point so here goes:
The Terrorizer review:
Unbound as ever by any restrictive notions of genre or convention, [The] Axis of Perdition continue to lurk in a netherworld almost entirely of their own creation. Indeed, never in their bracing life as a band thus far have they ventured deeper and darker within. 'Urfe' is by far their most nightmarish effort to date, a 90-odd minute descent into the dystopian maelstrom in which a hallucinatory, frothing narrative, courtesy of 'Dog Soldiers' actor Leslie Simpson, is daubed across a apnoramic canvass of murk and mire. Disorientation does battle herein with diabolical atmosphere, and whilst [The] Axis' metal roots only show on the second disc, the Lustmord/Lovecraft marriage that's replaced it brings forth horrific imaginative realms that gnaw and howl impressively at the darker recesses of the subconscious. 'Urfe' may test the mettle of many, yet it marks a still more enthralling chapter from a band whose singular vision and feverish originality renders them so far ahead of the pack as to genuinely beggar belief.
[9] - Jim Martin
I was, however, quite disappointed with the length of the feature in the same issue. I will not, however, be cancelling my subscription.
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Post by Darkcrawl on Mar 3, 2009 18:41:24 GMT
'Tenements...' is sounding juicy!
I wonder what this board thinks, we (on the whole) all very much unjoy 'Urfe' and indeed The Axis in general but we'll likely always be in a minority. Is it because we are the select few who give albums a chance rather than only listening if they connect on the first play? I guess, with me, part of it is a natural reaction to the overload of songs about love and nice things that permeate life, as well as getting enjoyment from being scared or from harrowing images/soundscapes.
I think Code666 and other labels deserve props for giving music this 'unforgiving' and downbeat a chance.
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Post by Skydancer on Mar 3, 2009 19:04:24 GMT
I couldn't agree more! Amen! I've read a lot of reviews of Urfe and many Metal reviewers, giving the album low ratings, just don't get it. Small-minded metalheads trapped in their little genre worlds.
I really like Metal music, but for me Urfe is the best album The AoP have done thus far, even if the Metal part is small, compared to older works. Urfe is like an audio book on super steroids!
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Post by Tyranor on Mar 5, 2009 9:10:24 GMT
I wonder what this board thinks, we (on the whole) all very much unjoy 'Urfe' and indeed The Axis in general but we'll likely always be in a minority. Is it because we are the select few who give albums a chance rather than only listening if they connect on the first play? I guess, with me, part of it is a natural reaction to the overload of songs about love and nice things that permeate life, as well as getting enjoyment from being scared or from harrowing images/soundscapes. I think Code666 and other labels deserve props for giving music this 'unforgiving' and downbeat a chance. Indeed we are minority. Not that people who listen to TAOP are very exceptional just because of that but only because they agree to play by the rules of world of The Axis i guess which is inspiring and fun. Personally it didn't click on me at all when i heard TOAP for the first time but i mostly never dismiss album after one or two spins and only after one month i was raving about it both music and concept wise. It is obvious that one must be really into horror to like what TAOP creates and i'm afraid there is hardly any way around it. It requires just wider imagination from the listener that's all. I believe the last album should easily attract industrial/ambient music oriented labels as well. |
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Post by Dalihrob on Mar 14, 2009 18:54:00 GMT
LOL!
The Urfe album came with fucking 3-months delay and damaged sleeve. That plastic doodad holding a disc crumbled and impaled the back cover. Thanks "wrongness" that damage is minimal and cd´s are ok.
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Post by Darkcrawl on Mar 18, 2009 1:13:11 GMT
There's a good review Emi just published on the Code666 forum. Here's the link: www.eklektik-rock.com/chro.php?chro=2314It gets it pretty spot-on really. A knowledge of French is needed, by the way (I knew Uni would be useful for something!). It's funny, pre-Urfe albums seemed to get positive reviews from English-speakers and negative from other European language speakers especially the Germans (as a generalisation). For Urfe, the direct opposite seems to be true. All the French and German reviews I've seen with few exceptions are very positive indeed! |
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Post by Dalihrob on Mar 18, 2009 15:10:26 GMT
czech review of Urfeand that´s a English summary of it: The long awaited album by The axis of perdition has brought new image of terror. While not relying on dense mixture of ambient and disharmonic metal, it shows another twist in the realms of Axis. With aid of Leslie Simpson, TAOP are narrating intense story of Lovecraftian proportions in proper twisted manner. It is just on you, how you digest it. This article was one of the most viewed of the month. New TAOP interview also waits to be released, but I still don´t know when.
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Post by Tyranor on Dec 17, 2010 9:33:52 GMT
I was looking for this, and funny enough, it was around all that time, lol I guess this short movie pretty much could explain, why Leslie was chosen to be the martyr of The Axis  Really well executed work. |
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Post by Mike on Dec 20, 2010 12:12:11 GMT
That got made quite late on in the process of making "Urfe", eagle-eyed viewers will spot that we used doctored shots from the film for the interior artwork of the album. There was actually talk for a while of doing a tie-in with sounds from "Urfe", with the implication that the woman in the film is in fact Pylon, but they didn't come to fruition.
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Post by Dalihrob on Dec 20, 2010 19:28:47 GMT
..."Internal photography by Owen Bloffe, from the short movie ILOVEYOU by Tristan Versluis and molested by Brooke..."
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