Blood Axis

Blood Axis is a project by Michael Moynihan, which is attributable to the neofolk music. In addition to Robert Moynihan are Ferbrache and Moynihan's girlfriend Annabel Lee part of the cast.

Band History

Moynihan founded after a tour of Japan with Boyd Rice 1989, the project Blood Axis, which was planned by him since the mid- 1980s. Appeared in 1991, the first two tracks on the compilation The Lamp of the Invisible Light by Cthulhu Records from Germany. Published in 1994 on In the blood, fire, another, also regarded as legendary sampler of this label, a cover of Joy Division 's classic They Walked in Line and The Storm Before the Calm, Part One. Both pieces were written with the participation of The- Electric Hellfire Club frontman and Church -of- Satan - member Reverend Thomas Thorn (Alfred Thomas ). The cover also appeared as a split single with the Austrian neofolk band Souls' Day.

1995 saw the debut album The Gospel of Inhumanity, whose cover shows the painting The War of Franz von Stuck. The album contained several samples of some classical pieces, various poetry readings, for example, Klaus Kinski and Ezra Pound, as well as excerpts from the films A Clockwork Orange and The Wicker Man. Some songs also search the proximity to the rock music. For the production of Robert Ferbrache was responsible. A native of Denver artist previously worked already together with bands like 16 Horsepower.

Shortly after the release of the album pushes the violinist Annabel Lee to the group, who participated previously in several experimental films by Richard Kern. Appeared in 1998, a live recording titled blót: Sacrifice in Sweden on the Swedish Industrial label Cold Meat Industry. The live album is from a concert in Linköping, Sweden, on 15 November 1997 and contains three new songs.

In 2001, after a collaboration with the French band Les Joyaux de la Princesse entitled Absinthe - La Folie Verte, a concept album about the absinthe. 2002, a box that also still presents a live recording in Portugal and various gimmicks contained appears. 2004, the live album also appeared separately under the title Absinthia Taetra. Blood Axis is the present further on some compilations of neofolk scene.

In the run up to their respective albums Blood Axis and Andrew King in 2010 published a limited edition of 500 copies split single with alternate versions of songs appearing here, which are both based on medieval texts. Moynihan sings the text to Owe was sint verswunden (with Blood Axis The Dream ) in Middle High German original ( albeit with an accent). , Where he does not hit all the notes cleanly The lyrics are both in the original and Moynihan in English translation. In March 2010, then the second studio album of the project was titled Born Again. On the album you will find, among other settings of poems in Old English, Middle High German and modern German language, which were also translated by Moynihan in modern English and printed in the booklet.

Appeared in 2011 under its original working title ultimacy a scrapbook of all the singles and compilation contributions of twenty years of band history 1991 to 2011.

Criticism

Blood Axis, and in particular Michael Moynihan refer loudly critical analyzes positively to fascist or Nazi ideologies and their occult environment. There are many indications in his work. So he used as background music of Joy Division cover the sound of marching soldiers and separations of a Hitler speech. He also changed the text of the template, it is from the critically - distant chorus They walked in line with the original Moynihan affirmatively We walked in line. Other pieces of Blood Axis use samples of the British fascist Oswald Mosley, relate positively to Nazi ideologues like Alfred Rosenberg and Karl Maria Wiligut. Before Wiligut grave Moynihan also was photographed for the booklet in the blood to fire.

The band name Blood Axis also refers to the Axis powers and Moynihan used as a band symbol Kruck Cross, where he exactly took over the designs of the Neutempler the Order of ariosophs Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, as well as that of the Austro-fascism. It also includes other symbols like the swastika in the left - and right-handed variant and four Thor hammers.

Moynihan sees himself as a freethinker and referred These kinds allegations as " perverse [e ], psychological [e ] projection." In return, he understands Blood Axis as a total work of art that is free of any dogma:

" Blood Axis celebrates free thinking and rejects all totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century. Blood Axis is and will remain a band of eternal outsiders whose primary interest lies in the creative arts and who are not interested in the least in politics. Blood Axis promotes iconoclastic thinking instead of smug conjecture, mindless conformism and socio-political, moral or religious dogmas. Blood Axis represents the gray zone of ambiguity far from simplistic categories or utopian fantasies. "

The cultural scientist and author Alexander Nym referred to the musicians as " hippies " who play folk music. Moynihan's right phase is limited to the period of his " preoccupation with the esoteric foundations of the Nazi period in early to mid -nineties ." In his estimation, was Moynihan " one of the anarchist [P ] ost - Industrial - artist [ ... ] in which it was hip at the time, the politically correct everyday Nazis - that censors and got philistine as well as the ostensible, alternative culture ' - in the USA with the specter of Nazi Satanism to provoke ".

The information and documentation center for anti-racism work in North Rhine -Westphalia assigns Blood Axis under " internationally known right-wing bands " a.

Discography