''The Gospel of Inhumanity'' is the first album by Blood Axis. Conceived in the winter of 1994/95, it was performed, recorded and engineered at

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( Denver, Colorado) by Michael Jenkins Moynihan and

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. The album incorporates music by

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, Johann Sebastian Bach and Sergei Prokofiev, such as "

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"; lyrics by Friedrich Nietzsche and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; the voices of

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and

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; and samples from '' The Wicker Man'' and '' A Clockwork Orange''.

Track listing

#"The Gospel of Inhumanity" – 5:47 #"The Voyage (Canto I)" – 4:34
lyrics
#"Eternal Soul" – 4:04 #"Between Birds of Prey" – 8:16 #"Herr, nun laß in Frieden" – 5:02 #"Reign I Forever" – 6:15

#"Absinthe" – 7:07 #"Storm of Steel" – 10:56

External links

''The Gospel of Inhumanity''
at Discogs.
''The Gospel of Inhumanity'' reviewed
at Chronicles of Chaos by Andrew Lewandowski. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gospel Of Inhumanity, The 1995 debut albums Blood Axis albums