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Post by Covered In Gauze on May 19, 2010 16:38:19 GMT
YES YES YES!
Insanely good news. As much as the left side of my brain is drooling from anticipation from new Pulsefear, I realized in the last week or so that the right side was beginning to lose cohesion thinking about tenements. The last news on here i could find said something about 2010, but as long as its still in the works spring 2011 ok and i am happy.
As one of the apparently three fans of urfe, i look forward to being confused and disappointed (although not alienated no matter what it turns out to be), and hopefully joyfully angry and upset. Given how late i was to the game, Urfe was the first Axis album i heard and it would be impossible to describe what i thought about what i heard, but i will always remember EVERYTHING about that first listening experience. That has only happened to me twice before. I don't make lists, but Urfe would have been my 2009 album of the year and one of my 10 desert island albums. I bought Deleted scenes and Physical Illucinations and liked them (i didn't like Ichneumon at all btw so did not buy (DONT HATE ME)), but the transition you made from there to Urfe i think is wonderful. I hope Tenements continues the evolution. I don't know whether i will like it or not, but i am looking forward to it, and i will look forward to whatever the Axis of Perdition puts out in the future.
Good News, good news, good news. Please update us whenever u you can!
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Post by Tyranor on May 19, 2010 17:21:22 GMT
Wow, you are truly on the "wrong" edge here  I assume Ichneumon probably is considered to be favorite among most people who listen or tried to listen to The Axis while the Urfe, well you know...Still some people whom I expected not to like Urfe they enjoyed it and some whom I thought might dig it, they did not and that's really weird. I'm complete and irredeemable fan of TAOP and adore everything from their demo to Urfe equally. Everyone here knows that Axis always takes strange turns... I believe Tenements will be as surprising as every album Axis did prior to it if not more. And I'm sure it will be a hell lot more. |
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Post by Covered In Gauze on May 19, 2010 17:39:00 GMT
Wow, you are truly on the "wrong" edge here I assume Ichneumon probably is considered to be favorite among most people who listen or tried to listen to The Axis while the Urfe, well you know...Still some people whom I expected not to like Urfe they enjoyed it and some whom I thought might dig it, they did not and that's really weird. I'm complete and irredeemable fan of TAOP and adore everything from their demo to Urfe equally. Everyone here knows that Axis always takes strange turns... I believe Tenements will be as surprising as every album Axis did prior to it if not more. And I'm sure it will be a hell lot more. I don't quite know whether u make fun of me or not, but i think your last statement is exactly the sentiment i was expressing. BTW i refuse to just like EVERYTHING equally (or at all) whether i like the band or not. I obviously don't have the same tastes as everyone here, but i can see why Ichneumon would be some peoples fav Axis album and i can also see why Urfe would be, and it doesn't suprise me that some people like all of them. The quality of the band comes through on all of them and even though Urfe sounds quite different from Ichneumon the Axisness to me is present in all of them. Whether I like them or not should be quite immaterial as long as it follows its own TRUE path, wherever that path goes. Hate me if u will for not liking everything! |
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Post by Tyranor on May 19, 2010 18:28:52 GMT
I don't quite know whether u make fun of me or not, but i think your last statement is exactly the sentiment i was expressing. BTW i refuse to just like EVERYTHING equally (or at all) whether i like the band or not. I obviously don't have the same tastes as everyone here, but i can see why Ichneumon would be some peoples fav Axis album and i can also see why Urfe would be, and it doesn't suprise me that some people like all of them. The quality of the band comes through on all of them and even though Urfe sounds quite different from Ichneumon the Axisness to me is present in all of them. Whether I like them or not should be quite immaterial as long as it follows its own TRUE path, wherever that path goes. Hate me if u will for not liking everything! No, I don't make fun of you. Really. Why should I? Why should anyone else? I think you came to a very right place and your words prove that very well. This forum have one very distinct trait due to it's very specific nature I believe. All the people here would rather share valuable information then bash others opinion. |
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Post by Darkcrawl on May 19, 2010 21:18:10 GMT
Covered in Gauze - Do you not like the last track on ...Ichneumon... - Disturbance in the Perpetual Screen? Or maybe Forms on the Other Side of Silence? Reason I'm asking is they are slower-paced on the whole and more ambient. My personal favourite is Deleted Scenes still as it opened up new musical avenues for me (Dark ambient etc.) and nothing has put the fear in me quite so much before or since. I am a huge fan of the entire back-catalogue, though and can't wait to be hugely let down by Tenements  |
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Post by The Moderator on May 20, 2010 11:52:04 GMT
If I wanted to drop spoilers about Tenements I would say it reminds me most of Physical with Urfes ambient though thats the tip of a very large and horrible filthberg.
Ichneumon owes a lot to the bands previous incarnation as Minethorn, its a whole lot easier to digest for the casual listener than what has come after so thats most likely why its the 'fan favourite' though its certainly not ours.
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Post by Covered In Gauze on May 20, 2010 17:40:31 GMT
I personally would be less interested in spoilers than in updates about the actual process (dates and progress etc), but the choice is yours and i appreciate any news. As long as i know where it is, i prefer to not know the make up of the filthberg as i gleefully steer my ship directly into it.
Darkcrawl: I don't know how to answer you in a way i already haven't (sorry that my writings aren't clear), but i love Axis even though i don't love everything they do. Forms is the most easily digestable song on the album for me, and there are SMALL bits in most songs that i liked, but the album as a whole i had a really hard time listening to for a variety of reasons. This in no way means i wouldn't want that album as part of their evolution as it makes them what they are. I said it in the first post but i will say again here and make it the last word on this particular subject: I don't know whether i will like what they do in the future (I hope i do!), but i will always look forward to it and I am glad they are doing it!
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Post by Tyranor on May 21, 2010 10:12:31 GMT
If I wanted to drop spoilers about Tenements I would say it reminds me most of Physical with Urfes ambient though thats the tip of a very large and horrible filthberg. That is what I was afraid the most. The EP one of the most horrid faces of The Axis one could experience. Like you been shackled tightly by barbed wire and the screams from the Otherworld open wounds into your body to get inside and to make you feel them physically. And it's only the tip... |
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Post by Phormlyss on May 22, 2010 4:33:14 GMT
I'm looking certainly forward to it. Physical Illucinations is among my favorite albums by The Axis, and I thoroughly enjoyed Urfe.
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Post by TheHierophant on May 24, 2010 22:17:36 GMT
There is no doubt that "Physical Illucinations in The Sewer of Xuchilbara" was one of the thing that had the most important impact on my musical conception. I think it'll stay my favorite auditive experience of all time, I remember how I just thrilled when I heard for the first time the first C guitar chord at the beginning of "Pendulum Prey (Reciprocating Horror)" not to mention the disharmonic arpeggio that reminds me the walk of a dismantled nurse in the shadows of the Brookhaven Hospital...
So there is my question, do you mean that "Tenements of the Anointed Flesh" will see the return of the extreme distorted and over-trebly guitars that, in my point of view, made The Axis the unique nightmarish crawling chaos they are ?...
There's a lot of good things in "Urfe" (or maybe I should say horrible things) but I found it was too much clean talking about sound production compare to "Physical..." where the master track was clipping at every drum tom beat... (it was just perfect !).
CORROSION BE OUR SALVATION.
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Post by The Moderator on May 26, 2010 18:31:52 GMT
in this case I think you will find Tenements a bit too clean, though there will be filth in other ways more so than perhaps any previous album. I wont go into cliche and describe it as our best work ever though. As ever things can and most likely will change before the release so nothing is set in stone (rust?) One point I will make is that the Tenements riffs being played require a cleaner, meatier sound to work properly, it exentuates their wrongness. If you want Heirophant, we can do an extreme clipping mix and master just for you |
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Post by TheHierophant on May 26, 2010 20:16:04 GMT
Special Extreme Treatments ? Lovely doc', with pleasure. An eyeball touching with mostly clean fingers would be the icing on the cake...
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Post by Mike on May 27, 2010 13:10:40 GMT
The thing with the extreme overdistorted sound of the early stuff is, that was all a product of inexperience and not having a clue what we were doing technically. That gave the sound a certain abrasive charm but we've learned from experience that this kind of naivety can't be recreated once you've learnt too much about recording. We've tried and it just didn't work, plus as Brooke says Tenements needs clarity so that everyone can "savour" every gory detail...
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Post by Covered In Gauze on May 27, 2010 16:53:38 GMT
The thing with the extreme overdistorted sound of the early stuff is, that was all a product of inexperience and not having a clue what we were doing technically. That gave the sound a certain abrasive charm but we've learned from experience that this kind of naivety can't be recreated once you've learnt too much about recording. We've tried and it just didn't work, plus as Brooke says Tenements needs clarity so that everyone can "savour" every gory detail... I personally think as the sound as gotten "cleaner" and somewhat more minimalistic, the music as gotten much scarier, but i know not much. All this talk though is making the unjoyment center of my brain pulse horribly! Also, in my neverending quest to prove that i'm the stupidest(sic) person on the planet, i completely missed until today that the update said Tyranor would be included this time. Belated congratulations sir. Do your best and work hard ! |
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Post by TheHierophant on May 27, 2010 17:14:22 GMT
Ok no problem, the funny thing is that in my case, my software make the sound as clean as possible so I'm actually killing myself making rottings all over my mix adding some vinyl scratches and distortion (of course not too much). It make me wonder how the hell did you guys get that sound ? Which software ? I'm also thinking in buying a vintage mic to get a dirtier sound, here is the link : www.thomann.de/fr/superlux_wh5.htmIn fact what I like the most is not so much the dirty mix in "Physical Illucinations" but the cold guitar sound with very few mediums and good treble level which was amazing, when I heard it for the first time it was just like "Bloody hell ! Just the sound I wanted !". Anyway, I'm impatient for Tenements, such a shame we have to wait so long. |
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I assume Ichneumon probably is considered to be favorite among most people who listen or tried to listen to The Axis while the Urfe, well you know...Still some people whom I expected not to like Urfe they enjoyed it and some whom I thought might dig it, they did not and that's really weird.
