The Axis of Perdition

And there was Light upon the Earth...

The Axis of Perdition - A Ruined Nation Awakens

Maleficent in their glory
Walking barren wastelands
The 13 desolate and cold
Leering from the black abyss
Ever tearing to their goal
A million screaming voices
Vile ambitions surge tenfold

The stars are screaming loud
The blind idiot god stumbles
A mind giving way
Gnashing worms from the other side of shadows

And in the centre of everything...
The swirling nuclear chaos

The children of the dead sun
The rejoicing damned
The 13 blessed helix
Marching from myth to megalomania...

Elite surgical supremacy
Shadow lords of the bio circuits
Prophets of chaos
Messiahs to the Shaggai
Dispensing erotic genocide

Progeny of Nyarlathotep

The universe is crumbling to dust
The atoms themselves are coming apart
The weak flesh withers and dies
Nail and tooth, token trophies

But through it all, a beacon of light
A homing signal at the end of infinity
A dulcet torch pierces Mechanikanna's excrement
The single tri-lobed eye...

Piping daemonium flutes
The madness at the centre of everything
And it swells through the gate of nothingness
Time itself has died

The Axis of Perdition

Genre(s)

Industrial Black Metal/Dark Ambient

Lyrical theme(s)

Urban Decay, Lovecraftian, Silent Hill

Origin Formed in Current label Status

United Kingdom (Middlesbrough) 2001 Code666 Records Active

Current line-up

Brooke Johnson - Vocals, Guitar (Mine[thorn], Hesper Payne, Vortex Syndrome, Pulsefear, Phaleg, Irradiant, Kult of Eihort, Halo of the Sun, Nord (Gbr), Void of Silence, Haeiresis)

Mike Blenkarn - Guitar, Keyboards, Programming (Mine[thorn], Pulsefear, Phaleg)

Ian Fenwick - Bass (Mine[thorn], Hesper Payne)

Dan "Storm" Mullins - Drums (My Dying Bride, Sermon of Hypocrisy, Kryokill, Bal-Sagoth, Epitaph, Code (Session), The Enchanted, Thine, Broken (Gbr), Mine[thorn])

Leslie Simpson - Narration, Vocals

Additional notes

The band changed it's name to "The Axis of Perdition" in 2004 to signify that it is a specific entity.

"The reason that we are disinclined to publish lyrics within our packaging is that we prefer to provide additional artwork - for us, this communicates our ideas and serves our intentions more vividly, thoroughly and effectively." [Micheal Blenkarn]

The lyrics for the debut album and the 'Corridors' demo were released at a later date.

Discography

Corridors Demo, 2002

The Ichneumon Method (And Less Welcome Techniques) Full-length, 2003

Physical Illucinations in the Sewer of Xuchilbara (The Red God) EP, 2004

Deleted Scenes from the Transition Hospital Full-length, 2005

Urfe Full-length, 2009

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