Brainwronged In reply to CrucifyTheWolf [2013-10-14 19:39:40 +0000 UTC]

No music from me for the time being as I am concentrating on my studies. eventually though...eventually....

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CrucifyTheWolf In reply to Brainwronged [2013-10-14 23:04:54 +0000 UTC]

Aaaaaaaw.I understand man <=3.

How have you been lately?

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Brainwronged In reply to CrucifyTheWolf [2013-10-15 12:33:07 +0000 UTC]

Busy with uni, moving house and finding work really. So nothing exciting. Unless you like rocks, then lask week I got to play with a peridotite mantle xenolith.

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CrucifyTheWolf In reply to Brainwronged [2013-10-15 23:20:32 +0000 UTC]

x_x Sounds like a pain..
Well that's at LEAST something.
How IS it in the UK anyway o.o?I live in the US, so I don't get the same pretty feels as it is in the UK.

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morkner In reply to morkner [2013-08-04 10:50:14 +0000 UTC]

Or Stagnant Waters...

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CrucifyTheWolf In reply to morkner [2013-07-25 00:08:56 +0000 UTC]

Wait,what?!Brooke ended TAOP?

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morkner In reply to CrucifyTheWolf [2013-07-25 00:25:54 +0000 UTC]

mutual agreement between Brooke and Michael.

A friend of both mine and the band sent me this:

About TAOP's there are few reasons I guess. Mike told me that he feels that he pretty much archieved with The Axis everything he could and at this point it would be only a rehashing what they have already done before. And another lesser reason would that Brooke is moving to London. Temporarily or permanently, I don't know for sure.

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CrucifyTheWolf In reply to morkner [2013-07-25 00:32:37 +0000 UTC]

Aaaaaw D:!!
I hope they don't stay broken up for so long, at least temporarily. But I can understand that there are some reasoning to it.I just hope there could be some new releases at least in the future.

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morkner In reply to CrucifyTheWolf [2013-07-25 04:11:33 +0000 UTC]

Yes I hope so too, they were one of my favorite bands. They just need inspiration, they don't want their sound to get stale.

How about Industrial Doom/ Ambient? rather than Industrial Black/ Ambient.

(I know this is Brooke's page so... giving you ideas man, obviously your fans didn't want you split up)

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CrucifyTheWolf In reply to morkner [2013-07-25 07:53:24 +0000 UTC]

Same as well :c.And they're a very,VERY unique band,and I'd love to hear some new stories in the Axis world.

And Hmm..probably.

(I know :3)

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Brainwronged In reply to morkner [2013-07-27 21:43:52 +0000 UTC]

Hello
Sorry for the late reply, I am busy with academic work and getting ready to move to another city so don't have regular web access.

The song 'forms on the other side of silence' from Ichneumon uses a sample of Tim Curry reading an excerpt from Crouch End. I'm not a massive King fan but it's actually a quite a nice creepy story even if the Lovecratian elements are a little hackneyed. I would recommend tracking down Tim Curry's spoken word version as his performance is brilliant.

Yes we decided to fold Axis. We have done everything we wanted to and much more. the story was finished and we had started to feel it was a burden. It's not very pleasant music to make and we did not want to disrespect it, ourselves or the people who enjoy it by continuing it out of a sense of obligation and duty. It also represents a chapter of our lives that is over and done with. Speaking personally I have to immerse myself in some pretty horrible memories and states of mind to get in the zone and that's something I don't want to do any more. It's not healthy and pretending felt dishonest. I'm not the angry, seething mess I was in 2002 an have no desire to be that ever again.

The other reason is that our studies are taking up more of our time. Mike is doing a music PhD and I am studying a geology degree. As well as being study intensive I pay for mine myself working full time. So that does not give me a whole lot of spare time for music and I would rather concentrate on projects I enjoy more. Also I just plain enjoy geology and palaeontology a lot more than music. As fun as it is completing a music project, getting a nice review or playing live. They pale in comparison to being in the field mapping or splitting a nodule and being the first person to see a fossil that has not seen the sun in hundreds of millions of years.  It really is a major kick for me to go out mapping, logging and collecting samples and then turn that into a story of millions of years of history. Being able to look at rocks and landforms and then read that story from them is something that brings me a great deal of joy.

As far as music goes I will be continuing with Hesper Payne and Halo of the Sun and a few one off things here and there as time allows. Mike will also be continuing with his own projects but you would have to ask him about them .

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morkner In reply to Brainwronged [2013-07-27 21:50:30 +0000 UTC]

so there would be no chance of TAOP reuniting in the future?

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Brainwronged In reply to morkner [2013-07-27 21:59:12 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely none.
We may make discordant and ugly extreme metal again in the future but it would but under a new name and not in the same conceptual world. TAOP is gone and  has returned to the void from whence it slithered.

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morkner In reply to Brainwronged [2013-07-27 22:24:23 +0000 UTC]

awwww...

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Brainwronged In reply to CrucifyTheWolf [2013-01-17 19:30:22 +0000 UTC]

heyup!
we have a couple of idea kicking around but we never know that there is a going to be a new albm untill its nearly finished. i you know what I mean.

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morkner In reply to Brainwronged [2013-01-18 19:44:49 +0000 UTC]

Is it going to sound like 'Transition Hospital/Sewers' albums? or Tenements. I ask because I noticed Tenements wasn't as well received as your earlier works.

Personal preference, I really enjoyed your earlier work.

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Brainwronged In reply to morkner [2013-01-19 12:18:39 +0000 UTC]

Except for Ichneumon We always work with the concept first and then the music kind of globs round that. Because of that creative method while we can't rule out doing something in a similar vein to older works it will never happen intentionally. We are not the same people in the same circumstances as we were when those works were written and recorded so it's pretty much impossible to recreate the conditions. In the liner notes for the SYL album City Devin Townsend talks about a similar thing with people wanting him to remake that album and why its not going to happen.

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morkner In reply to Brainwronged [2013-01-19 12:34:51 +0000 UTC]

Totally understandable friend! I guess those people who don't change, or "evolve", can not be considered human, as everyone and everything evolves constantly.

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Brainwronged In reply to morkner [2013-01-20 10:04:43 +0000 UTC]

Axis is just a mutable weird thing really. All our other wors are fairly standard but Axis refuses to conform. Whenever we have tried the results have been terrible. But not in the good way.

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morkner In reply to Brainwronged [2013-01-22 09:06:48 +0000 UTC]

I get what you mean.

Hey, if you like hearing ideas from fans, I have a good one.

Have you ever thought about a Hesper Payne/Aarni split, both of you seem knowledgable on the Lovecraft stuff, both are doom bands, both are absolutely wierd.

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CrucifyTheWolf In reply to Brainwronged [2013-01-18 02:15:09 +0000 UTC]

Of course :3.
I was just wondering when the next one will be.
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Brainwronged In reply to CrucifyTheWolf [2013-01-19 12:13:36 +0000 UTC]

Sorry Mike will beat me (again) if I let anything slip. We have a number of concepts we are toying with. Some you could call direct sequels to previous works and some are exploring areas of the universe we have not touched on before or if so not in detail.

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CrucifyTheWolf In reply to Brainwronged [2013-01-19 21:59:42 +0000 UTC]

Ooooooooooh owo.
I understand it's all secretive .
But I can't wait!I keep hoping for one similar to Urfe.

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Brainwronged In reply to CrucifyTheWolf [2013-01-20 10:03:29 +0000 UTC]

Read 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy if you haven't already. Imagine what that would be like in the axis world.

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CrucifyTheWolf In reply to Brainwronged [2013-01-20 22:01:41 +0000 UTC]

I haven't,but from the sounds of it..it sounds exactly like The Axis owo.

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Brainwronged In reply to morkner [2013-01-08 19:51:23 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like our work! I'm Brooke, the most stinky of the pair.

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morkner In reply to Brainwronged [2013-01-08 20:39:48 +0000 UTC]

Well, it seems I'm in the presence of Metal royalty!

I got into Silent Hill because of you guys.

I am a cover and logo designer for bands and at the moment I'm designing a new logo for Haeiresis.

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Brainwronged In reply to morkner [2013-01-10 21:28:04 +0000 UTC]

Lol WHUT !?

cool its a great game, shame konami seem intent to drive it into the ground with the latest ones.

sweet looking forward to seeing that logo. H is a great band and Skol is a cool guy!

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morkner In reply to Brainwronged [2013-01-11 11:03:31 +0000 UTC]

Hey maybe I could design some work for you?

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Brainwronged In reply to morkner [2013-01-14 19:11:46 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the offer, that's a cool logo for H. We will have a think on it if we do any more Axis in the future!

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morkner In reply to Brainwronged [2013-01-15 03:18:58 +0000 UTC]

Doesn't necessarily have to be for TAOP, it could be for Halo of the Sun, Phaleg or even Pulsefear.

I would love to see another Pulsefear release.

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Brainwronged In reply to morkner [2013-01-17 19:29:41 +0000 UTC]

There may be another PF release in the next year so we will defo keep you in mind for that.

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morkner In reply to Brainwronged [2013-01-10 21:59:29 +0000 UTC]

you can see the new logo here:

[link]

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Brainwronged In reply to NullBoss [2010-09-21 22:12:19 +0000 UTC]

wussup dude, where you bin at y'all

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NullBoss In reply to Brainwronged [2010-09-21 22:14:09 +0000 UTC]

Aaaah around and a about, living in Darlo now at dad's old place, just started work for Barclay card in Stockton, whats new with you, not spoken to you in ages and you ain't been on MSN. :3

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Brainwronged In reply to NullBoss [2010-09-24 19:29:47 +0000 UTC]

i used to work in bcard, it was the pits. thought you where working at orange in darlo?
yeah i know you moved a while ago
i started a new job up here so ive not been able to get online during the day. when are you comign to visit gaybo?

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