transmisions from the dark red other

… and counting untill the opening of the Tenements on May 2nd. Unfortunately for YOU another track has snuck out early. Unjoy.

As I type the masters are currently crawling across the face of the Earth to the Code666 offices. The expect release is some time in May. More videos and maybe a track or two will be available  between now and the release date.

For now enjoy the above track whilst we crawl back into our fetid holes to sleep for the next month.

In May 2011, The Axis Of Perdition return with “Tenements (Of The Anointed Flesh)”, concluding the desperate story of Urfe with an intensity verging on the traumatic.

The inescapable result is a maelstrom of an album that cuts to the very heart of The Axis Of Perdition and exposes the diseased core with a violence, depth and derangement that is so far unmatched in the band’s discography. No aspect of the band’s signature sound goes unmolested in the merciless compulsion to push everything further than they have ever pushed before. Originally conceived in 2005, and meticulously honed to the most painful edge conceivable, “Tenements (Of The Anointed Flesh)” is a potent distillation of everything that makes The Axis Of Perdition such a unique and disturbing proposition. Haunting, moving, excruciating and excoriating in equal measure, it is an album that demands attention from start to finish and will leave no listener untouched.

Official tracklist:

1. The Sleeper
2. Unveiled
3. Unbound
4. Sigils and Portents
5. The Flesh Spiral
6. Dark Red Other
7. The Changer
8. Disintegration
9. Ordained
10.Awakenings

The abyss yawns open May 2011 on code666 ; be ready.

The album is 90% mixed

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The art is 50% complete

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perhaps by this time next week you will get to hear a new song

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perhaps

The Visual Therapy ward is now open, see below for the first installment.

Recording of the vocals, guitars, drums and bass is complete, work is continuing on the noise and ambience and the mixing has begun.

In the mean time unjoy this snippet in the form of my lyric sheet from one of the new tracks, of course it got a bit messed up during the process.

That is all.

will I become like Them?

Not unless you want to

because you are something special

nurtured and cherished

in the womb of filth

you will blossom

and the world will weep

I will shine the world will be blinded

and see a new from cauterised wounds

crawling ever onwards

Into the spiral

we are the spiral

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The first ever review of HOTS and the first review of the Black Goat split form Aquarius records in the states.

Killer 4 way split of extreme outsider heaviness, most folks will probably grab this for the two new Gnaw Their Tongues tracks, but will probably end up digging the other three bands nearly as much.
But since GTT might be the reason most folks are here, let’s talk about those tracks first. No huge departures, just more of that same, grim, apocalyptic, industrial, cinematic doom. “Crawl” is just that, a harrowing sonic crawl, with blown out distorted drums, heaving downtuned guitars, moaning miserable melodies, hysterical shrieks, shimmering strings, dense drones, a freaked out apocalyptic soundtrack to the death of mankind. “Paleness” is more of the same, but more metal, the main riff a blurred bit of undulating buzz, the vocals insane, the drums and industrial plod, long stretches of creepy ambience, the final half of the song a dense, thick, layered bit of blackened slow motion dronemusic, that is as weirdly hypnotic as it is hellish. Definitely worth it for fans, to get those two tracks, but there’s much more metallic misery to be had.
The Arm And Sword Of A Bastard God (killer name!) are a Southern California doomkult, and traffic in plodding blackened doom, minimal and murky, big guitars, pounding drums, and some sick slowed down death metal style vocals. Halo Of The Sun contribute their own bit of UK style doom-ed blackness, a frantic bit of black metal laced with wild squiggly guitar harmonies, harsh vox, a definite Cradle Of Filth vibe, weirdly melodic, but way more lo-fi and underground, the track breaks down into a lurching doomy trudge, there are even some weird processed clean vocals, but it’s soon back into the dense black grind and churn. Cool stuff for sure. Definitely be into hearing more from these guys.
And last up, from LA come The Slaughtered Lamb, who also do the black doom thing, their sound way more akin to Gnaw Their Tongues, super distorted, almost industrial, the guitars crumbling and nearly formless, the vocals dripping in effects, a filthy abject sonic crawl through broken glass and bloody entrails, leading to the 26 minute closer, an sprawling bit of epic and dismal black ambience, from hushed shimmer, to distorted thrum, to black buzz creep and back again.
All four bands impress, so buy it for the Gnaw Their Tongues, but stick around for the Slaughtered Lamb!

http://www.aquariusrecords.org/index.html

The original Mine[thorn] JunkHive demos are now online for free download at http://minethorn.bandcamp.com/album/junk-hive-noir-demos this is an album length collection and features songs from the album and unreleased material. This will be linked and updated in the Discography .