Years active 1989–present | Labels Storm | |
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Members Michael Moynihan, Annabel Lee, Robert Ferbrache Genres Experimental music, Folk music, Martial industrial, Neofolk, Neoclassicism, Post-industrial music, Spoken word Albums The Gospel of Inhumanity, Blót: Sacrifice in Sweden, Absinthe: La Folie Verte, Absinthia Taetra, Ultimacy Profiles | ||
Blood axis churning and churning
Blood Axis is an American Neofolk/Post-industrial band consisting of journalist and author Michael Moynihan, music producer Robert Ferbrache and musician and author Annabel Lee.
Contents
- Blood axis churning and churning
- Blood axis the hangman and the papist
- Early Blood Axis 1989 1999
- Lee
- Contemporary Blood Axis 2000 present
- Albums
- Collaborations and split releases
- Witch Hunt The Rites of Samhain
- Songs
- References
Blood axis the hangman and the papist
Early Blood Axis (1989-1999)
Moynihan had founded Coup de Grace, a multimedia project that produced live performances and cassettes and also released booklets of images and texts, the last of which was Friedrich Nietzsche's The Antichrist. The first output from the new appellation were two songs, "Lord of Ages" (employing lyrics from Rudyard Kipling's poem on Mithras) and "Electricity", which appeared on a German music sampler. These tracks were well received in Europe and were followed by two more songs that appeared on the compilation, Im Blutfeuer.
In 1995, Moynihan released the first full-length studio LP, The Gospel of Inhumanity with the help of Robert Ferbrache. The album wedded the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Sergei Prokofiev with modern electronics. Moynihan implemented a recording of Ezra Pound reading from his The Cantos. He also included lyrics from Nietzsche and Longfellow as well as his own to the work.
The band consisted of Michael Moynihan (vocals, bodhrán), Annabelle Lee (melodeon, electric violin) and Robert Ferbrache (guitars, keyboards).
Lee
Lee and Moynihan comprise the musical group, "Blood Axis."
Lee translates books and articles, which include those by Christian Rätsch and Julius Evola.
Contemporary Blood Axis (2000-present)
In 2005, Blood Axis play the German Flammenzauber festival, showcasing reworked live versions of several previously released songs, an amount of Irish folk songs and the live debut of a few new songs. April 2006 saw further live activity from Blood Axis, as well as a new medium for the duo's folk-oriented material entitled Knotwork at the Swiss Triumvirat festival.
Beginning in 1998, Moynihan began saying that Blood Axis was at work on a second full-length album, at one time said to be entitled Ultimacy. On 2 January 2009, Blood Axis played in Sintra, Portugal, with members of Portuguese band Sangre Cavallum. Moynihan stated on stage that the new album, now titled Born Again, was to be released the following Easter.
Albums
Collaborations and split releases
Witch-Hunt: The Rites of Samhain
Witch-Hunt: The Rites of Samhain is a recording of a 1999 live collaboration of Blood Axis and In Gowan Ring, performing as Witch-Hunt. The album was not released on a label. Limited to 100 CDR copies for private distribution, it was sold only at select Blood Axis concerts in Portugal. The album came in a special hand-made fold-out sleeve with leaf.
Track listing:
Witch Hunt recorded live on Samhain, Oct. 31, 1999- Welcoming By Harold McNeill
- I Lay Stretched On Your Grave / Morning Dew
- Two Magicians
- Sea Ritual
- Dead Men's Slip-Jig
- The Rolling of the Stones
- The Black One
- The Rolling of the Stones - In Gowan Ring, from the compilation The Pact of the Gods
- The March of Brian Boru - Blood Axis, from the compilation 10 Years of Madness
- Follow Me Up To Carlow - Blood Axis, previously unreleased
Songs
Reign I ForeverBlót: Sacrifice in Sweden · 1998
Walked in Line1995
Wir Rufen Deine Wölfe2003