1. Greets to you. What is going on in the last time in The Axis of Pedition and how are you? Could we look forward to next nightmare in the near future?

Heyup, we are currently finishing up the latest album ‘Grief of the Unclean’ which should be out early next year.

2. In the last time you relatively departed from black metal. I purpose, that you must have clear vision of that, how should „Deleted Scenes from the Transition Hospital“ sound. Also, how is your vision of feelings/pictures, which does your music evoke?

Deleted scenes was the journey of a protagonist through the transition hospital, this is both a physical location and a metaphorical one at the same time. I don’t really want to say what images our music brings to mind for us as we prefer it to be personal for each listener and our interpretations would only colour their perceptions of it.

3. Not only from instruments and pictures (booklet of „Deleted Scenes from the Transition Hospital“ is very good) you create your world, but also words are supporting postes. Why don´t you publish your lyrics – could you at least tell to our readers theme of the last album?

See above question for both answers, we generally don’t give out the lyrics because we want people to work them out for themselves, to invest some time and effort into it and for their own interpretations.

4. In your music there is appreciable smell of industrial and dark ambient. Do you have any favourites in this alternative genres? What do you listen to in the last time? Do you remember on any record from the last time, which did really wipe you eyes?

Yes more now than ever we feel more like a dark ambient band that uses guitars rather than the other way round. At the moment the latest albums form Elend and Karmaheit in particular have been getting played a lot as well as classics by megaptera, sephiroth, gruntsplatter et al.

5. If it is true, that ambient would faze or appeal meticulously, strike you in that genre on one. On your older records you added good ration of „madness and perversity“. How did you strike to make just that music?

Well I think the music was their all along in some form we just acted as conduits as it where for the ideas. Its not very illuminating to the process but the music just flows really, there is very little for thought other than a basic outline of direction, we have learned that trying to force the music in a pre set direction is like herding cats, its just not going to happen and the results are disasterous!

6. People often link you with the bands like Blut Aus Nord or Anaal Nathrakh. Beyond is black metal for you rather spice, than building stone. What genre would you rank yourself in, and what is your opinion on today´s black metal scene?

Im not a big fan of scenes and find the whole support the scene mentality futile and pointless. I also only really view music as being in two genres: things I like and things I don’t, im not a fan of a whole given genre so I just concentrate on the music I do like. As ive said earlier I think we are more a dark ambient band that uses metal as a texture than anything else.


7. You were supposed to release a split album with blut aus nord and Ghost from BAN cooperated with. Can we expect some more Cooperations with blut aus nord artist?

Well we would certainly love to do something with them , preferably something more involved than just a split, like an actual colaberation using each others sounds or something like that but alas there is nothing on the horizon just yet

8. Do you have as band any point, which you would like to achieve? Do you have any image, how should look record, which would The Axis of Perdition go away from music field with?

There is little for thought in axis we just want to illustrate through sound the world which we have created or rather is creating itself through us. I think we will know when the time comes that we cannot go any further.

9. How it looks with you and live performances? I can imagine you in smoky club, where you horrify listeners, which would be setting in broken armchairs…

Yeah that would be pretty cool, we have had some ideas but they are more suited to our ambient band Pulsefear. One thing we have learned in recent times is that axis is best kept to the studio, performing this material is just not enjoyable for us.

10. Could you tell us word or two about each member of The Axis of Perdition (hobbies, bands, and so on)?

Well Im in a few bands, Hesper Payne, who are doom based round northern English folk lore, perhaps not what you would expect from us! Im also in Minethorn who are kind of like industrialized sci fi soundscape metal. Ian and Dan from Axis are also in Minethorn with me, and Ian also plays in Hesper Payne.
Mike has his cinematic melancholic rock band Silencio and works with a few other bands (phaleg and undying) and Dan plays in every other band on earth ha! Dan really plays in The raven theory, Black Millenium, Bal-Sagoth and My Dying Bride as well as those other projects with me and some other bits and pieces that may or may not see the light of day

11. In some interviews I read, that you like computer games. What do you play in the last time and how do you like filmization of Sillent Hill?

I thought the film of SH was cool but I didn’t like some of the things they changed like ascribing the darkness to some classic concept of evil (ie the devil) We play all kinds of games, mainly survival horror but at the moment im really enjoying Ghost in the Shell stand alone Complex, I also personally enjoy things with giant robots!

12. Your music influences like great soundtrack in some post-apocalyptic film. Did you think about videoclip or about creation of any shot, which would you compose your music in?

We would very much like to do something visual but not a music video, I hate the whole concept behind music videos and who the hell would play one of ours if we got our way it would be horrific to the point of unbroadcastable and I certainly wouldn’t want it on crap like MTV or associated visual whoring channels. It would be a short film of some description, we did think about doing maybe a limited ep as the soundtrack to some kind of visuals but it just comes down to money and music like ours is a financial sink hole, maybe some day.


13. Will be the Pulsefear/Axis of perdition split re-released? I know that many fans are eager to get their hands on it but it´s almost imposible to obtain.(around 20 MC´s were released Am I right?)

It will never be reissued, we have made it available on file sharing networks but its not going to be repressed any time and actually sold, main reason being its not that great. I know it’s a cliché that most bands don’t like their own demos but really ours is pretty poor.

14. Members of TAOP are involved in many side-projects. Brooke is playing with Ian in Mine[thorn] which are about to release their debut also hesper payne comes to a mind with cooperation of those two. Brooke even know joined Vortex syndrome as a full-time member. And Dan Mullins is very requested drummer. Is it sometimes a problem to cohere your own full-time?

Oddly not, the way we record is very flexible and because we only have one or two full on live bands each it works out nicely, I was just at Dans place we recorded the drums for the new axis album in just under 3 hours. It really comes down to modern recording technology and that is what has allowed us to be so flexible.

15. Is there anything, what really hamper you on this world and what would you unmake, if it is in your strenght? What relation do you have to today´s society and values?

I don’t really relate to much of it we are in the position where we can create this music and live our lives fairly freely, I don’t have to worry about food or shelter or about war ect. Really the only probly in England are the inbred social lepers we call chavs I cannot think how to explain them, they are just the filth of humanity and I don’t know any one who actually likes them, having said that they are a major inspiration for our music.

16. What influenced you the most in your life? talking about music, beliefs, art ...

Growing up in Teesside England, also see above question. Im an atheist so think Satanism et al is just as pointless as any other religion so that’s never been a big driving force for us, its primarily been other arts and media and real life experience.

17. Thanks a lot for interview. And good luck in the next days! Last words are your´s.

Your welcome, remember When You Are Out We Are In