IT IS OUT
a little late perhaps but our new album Tenements (of the anointed flesh) is out now and available online and in your usual music holes. just follow the stink….
a little late perhaps but our new album Tenements (of the anointed flesh) is out now and available online and in your usual music holes. just follow the stink….
May 25, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Got it from the Aural Webstore, got it really quick. Anyway, the reek of decay and slabs of concrete falling on my head are superb, great work.
May 25, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Awful news. My entire day is ruined, and probably my nights, for a while.
Where can I buy the download? I’d rather not pay shipping, or have to put off my suffering for another few days as it arrives to me upon black chariot.
May 28, 2011 at 12:34 am
Having now listened to the whole thing a few times:
The music is superb, the vocals are shudderingly awful. Probably the worst I have ever heard. I get a few tracks in and have to play something else as the vocals give me a thumping headache.
bad bad bad. damned shame too as you’ve produced some of my favourite ever music. Tenements is just unlistenable – and that is not a compliment.
May 28, 2011 at 5:33 am
Ordered my copy off Amazon:
Says I’ve got until June 7th for it to arrive… That make sense?
June 1, 2011 at 2:55 am
Steven: I have a feeling that you got the same sneak peek that I did at the album. I’m on song 2 and there’s no way I can listen to this; and I know, as well, that AoP would not release with such poor quality. Reluctantly I will purchase the physical copy of this album, and I’ll probably be glad I did anyway, because of the artwork and *hopefully* lyrics. Though I’ve learned – and it’s even now proven by the fact they aren’t in this very comment thread to respond to us – that AoP cares about their mission first, and their fans second, so no lyrics wouldn’t surprise me, either.
That being said, even if I hate the album completely, I should buy the physical copy. I owe the Axis way more than $15 anyway. Love you guys, I hope I am pleased… and I’m nearly sure that I will be.
June 1, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Brooke is here from time to time to respond, but he probably has other things to do aswell
The vocals aren’t as good as the ones on Deleted Scenes (the best Axis vocals IMHO) but the overall quality is way better than the tracks posted on the net. The lyrics are also printed inside the booklet. No worries mate 
June 3, 2011 at 3:01 pm
I’ve heard the whole thing, and I left with the impression that Tenements is the most blood-stained, flesh-rotted deliciousness since The Ichneumon Method, perhaps even more so. I, too, prefer the vocals of the first 2.5 albums, but the wailing on Tenements suit the premise – the third chapter of Urfe – and therefore sound appropriately human. The guitar work alone warrants a purchase – it crawls and writhes all throughout the room! Great stuff.
June 3, 2011 at 11:07 pm
This album is staggeringly good. I’ve only listened through once and already ‘Ordained’ is one of my favourite songs the Axis has ever done. Looking at other comments I must be one of few that thinks the vocals are spot-on.
June 25, 2011 at 6:28 pm
It reminds me of a Junji Ito manga, Uzumaki (the spiral).
June 29, 2011 at 3:31 am
Sometimes I really wonder if you guys have been trolling ever since Urfe. First, you release urfe. We understand. And now this beautiful piece of music… with the volume turned down.
I was upset because I wanted another dose of Axis and I could hardly hear the music. Thankfully, all I had to do was go into Audacity and increase the volume. I can now enjoy it at the same level of volume as the other albums you’ve produced.
Unfortunately the recording quality has gotten worse, but I’m able to enjoy the more ambient parts. Maybe my CD was of a different quality than the posters here, but from my other “music holes” on the ‘net, I cannot find a copy that sounds any better than mine.
Finally, you gave us lyrics, and made them pretty hard to read. I appreciate even having them, and having new music from you guys is always nice. I just wish you would’ve done some things differently.
July 1, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Not trolling but just doing as we please really, pretty much as we have from the very begining. As you noted earlier its always going to be music first by a long, long way.
A lot of people seem to have the old stuff was better mentality but we cannot go backwards. The things we have learned cannot be unlearned not to mention that the gear we used at the time is long dead and we are not the same people that we were.
regarding the lyrics: The art work turned out a lot darker than we had anticipated, even so, did you really think we would let you have them that easily? If you want to know them your going to have to get dirty and put some work in!
July 1, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Is the volume thing really a big deal when you can, as you say, just turn it up? I did wonder about it myself at first but the fact is a lot of detail on the earlier albums was squashed out because the mastering was oversaturated, and it’s a real problem with modern recordings in general. “Tenements” is far more detailed than any other Axis album and a brash mastering job would have destroyed the nuances. At the end of the day all you need to do is crank it up a bit if you want it louder.
August 7, 2011 at 7:40 am
If the fans came before the music your excretions would be a pitiful shadow of what they are. And what they are is sheer brilliance.
The Axis is what it is because it does as it pleases.
Weepy apologies to the trolls, but Urfe is a masterpiece.
August 13, 2011 at 1:37 pm
When I first heared this album, I wasn’t very pleased with it. But this actually IS an Axis album, after all (even though it’s like Phaleg decided to do The Ichneumon Meothod part 2). Very well, guys, you are amazing like you usually are, despite that it took me a while to fully understand the way this thing fits in your discography. However, NEVER DO AN ALBUM LIKE THIS EVER. I can’t wait for the final part of the Urfe trilogy, hopefully that one will be louder and with more ambience.
November 7, 2011 at 3:02 pm
“It’s like Phaleg decided to do the Ichneumon Method part 2″; I can appreciate why you might think that, but the band’s goal with “Tenements” was to try and take the twisted guitar approach of “Deleted Scenes” to another level of detail, complexity and malformity, and challenge ourselves to compose immersive music in the musical abstract, without dependency on concrete/industrial sounds; we’ve been operating with dark ambient’s atmospheric “safety net” for some time, and it was the right moment for us to take a more difficult route and shake our creative process up. Meanwhile, the return of the blastbeats was a conceptually- driven decision, designed to illustrate Urfe’s frenzied energy as he desperately tries to escape the confines of the environment.
November 8, 2011 at 4:35 pm
After I listened to Tenements for many, many times, I fully realized that. I’m sorry for the last sentences in my comment, you are THE Axis of Perdition, you’re allowed to do anything you want, you are a perfect band. now I see Tenements as a perfect experimental album, and it’s great overall, it has many great MUSICAL moments, and Ordained is one of your most different songs. You are geniuses. I’m sorry for even trying to tell you what to do, I mean, you really are one of those bands who really live through their music. Urfe is the most daring and the most different and successful album I ever heard from any band. And Tenements shows that you can do more than just dark ambient.
I can’t wait for your next release and sorry for the ranting.
November 9, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Hey, no worries. Didn’t mean to sound irritable or anything, it’s just something that quite a few listeners have said and I wanted to clarify our position. Cheers for the kind words anyway!
October 11, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Also, capture this rot in wax, please.
October 12, 2011 at 7:07 pm
We’d love to; unfortunately, we’ve never been able to find anyone willing to do it.
January 10, 2012 at 3:06 am
For shame. I’m sure some label out there would do it. Blut Aus Nord’s MoRT album saw a vinyl pressing not by their past imprint Candlelight, nor current one Debemur Morti, but by the obscure Handmade Birds, whom I otherwise would never know existed. There’s also many companies (at least here in the Colonies) that can be commissioned to press vinyls at flat rates. I really want the sound quality and square foot of artwork! Again, this album is truly riff-a-licious.
December 3, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Dear Axis,
I know this page isn’t really an appropriate place to ask this question, but google couldn’t help me. I usually try to have an image about the bands I like, I lwant to know how you look like. I found a few pictures of you, and this one was more notable:
http://www.mortemzine.net/img/rozhovory/taop_rozhovor2.jpg.
Now, which one is Mike, which one is Brooke?
Please, delete my post if you find it inappropriate. I’m sorry if I wasn’t allowed to post a link, either. I just want to have a better image of you, because you are arguably the most amazing metal band (and not only metal). Also, if you want to keep the Axis wrapped in mistery, just ignore my post.
I can’t wait for your next album, literally. Sorry for flooding your page, but I guess fans are supposed to be those annoying douchebags who keep telling you how to make your next albums, and flood your pages with shit nobody cares about.
December 4, 2011 at 1:45 pm
I’m not in that photo but see if you can guess which one is mike
January 2, 2012 at 2:41 am
Hey guys, I thought I’d write to you here. Have a success-filled and productive year, and all the good things with your life and band.
Happy new year!