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Blood Axis is the name under which journalist and author Michael Moynihan (journalist)|Michael Moynihan and musician and author Annabel Lee (musician)|Annabel Lee compose and release music.
Overview
Early Blood Axis (1989-1999)
Moynihan formed Blood Axis in 1989 after touring Japan at the request of experimental music pioneer, Boyd Rice. Moynihan had previously founded Coup de Grace, a multimedia project that produced live performances and cassettes and also released booklets of images and texts, the last of which was Friedrich Nietzsche's ''The Antichrist (book)|The Antichrist''.
The first output from the new appellation were two songs, "Lord of Ages" (employing lyrics from Rudyard Kipling's poem on Mithras <ref name=MITHRAS> Kipling, Rudyard. "A Song To Mithras" [http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p2/mithras.html]</ref>) and "Electricity", which appeared on a Germany|German music sampler. These tracks were well received in Europe and were followed by two more songs that appeared on the seminal compilation, ''Im Blutfeuer''. In 1995 in music|1995, Moynihan released the first full length studio LP, ''The Gospel of Inhumanity''.
The album wedded the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Sergei Prokofiev with modern electronic music|electronics. Moynihan implemented a recording of Ezra... read all
