This is the kind of review I like to read:
IMHOTEP 'ZINE
THE AXIS OF PERDITION Deleted Scenes From The Transition Hospital (2005) code666 (8 / 10)
A travel into the underworld would be a journey you wouldnt want to repeat over and over again. Demons, darkness and lurking figures with shining eyes all around you, ready to take a bit, to fulfil your worst nightmare.
Once inside, theres no escape. No green exit-signs, no guardian who informs you which way to go. No smile, no help
youre left in this void of nothingness
Sounds all around you, sounds that make you shiver, they haunt you every living minute, you are desperate. The red rose has turned black, the purple rain has turned black, the white cloud has turned black. Heaven? Hah, did it ever exist?
Some, if not most, bands consist of members that turn into members once they get an instrument or a microphone in front of them, while being all nice taking care of their families the rest of the time. Could be this goes for those four in The Axis Of Perdition, but if I should judge by the music only, I think its time for them to visit their shrinks. Could be the men in white would throw away the keys as well
This album is a journey in black, without a single sign of hope. The slow passages of Black Metal remind me of some Burzum, while the ambient-industrial parts could have been parts from Ulvers William Blake-album. But the intervention between the two is nothing I have ever heard before. I cant come up with one single band that reminds me of The Axis Of Perdition, and thats a certain sign of
, well, if not necessarily quality I would at least speak of originality.
Deleted Scenes From The Transition Hospital is, if you dare, a dive into your own darkness, hopelessness and insanity. Personally speaking I dont know if I will ever want to listen to this again. Maybe I should get drunk, pump up the volume and stand in the middle of the room just to figure out what will happen. I have no real idea.
Walk, if you dare, but be open-minded because this album demands something from you, and I am sure most of us are not ready at all. (
www.theaxisofperdition.co.uk)
(Roy Kristensen)