Welcome to the forum

**silentwake** · Subject: Welcome to the forum Tue May 01, 2007 10:49 pm

Hello and welcome to the Ashen Mortality forum-any questions just ask!

**ghosts of athanasius** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Wed May 02, 2007 1:08 am

What took so long to get here? haha

Just curious, when you reflect on Ashen Mortality do you feel like you accomplished what you wanted to with that project? Were there unexplored avenues, unrealized goals, etc?

Did you get to play out live?

How was the band received internationally?

**TrogDawn** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Wed May 02, 2007 1:58 pm

Hey wakey! Thanks for getting the ball rolling! Big Smile

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**silentwake** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Tue May 15, 2007 4:03 pm

ghosts of athanasius wrote:

What took so long to get here? haha

Just curious, when you reflect on Ashen Mortality do you feel like you accomplished what you wanted to with that project? Were there unexplored avenues, unrealized goals, etc?

Did you get to play out live?

How was the band received internationally?

Sorry Tim, didn't realise I had a response til today.

Yes we did play live fairly regularly up until the last few years. We got to play with some great bands. We even played with At The Gates. The band had a good response internationally and things were pretty good, especially at the start. The first album is a disappointment to me in many ways as it could have been so much better. the songs on that album were great live, but the album (which was really demo recordings tarted up) didn't really capture that. I am still happy with Your Caress though, and still find it amazing that we managed to record and mix it in 3 days.

**silentwake** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Tue May 15, 2007 4:04 pm

TrogDawn wrote:

Hey wakey! Thanks for getting the ball rolling! Big Smile

No worries dood, just woke up and found these two posts!

Thanks for putting the band on here.

**ghosts of athanasius** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Wed May 16, 2007 12:28 am

Well thanks Ian. I can appreciate the difference between a live dynamic and recorded. I had a taste of that myself.

Did you build the songs around a riff, or did you have an idea or more elaborate section worked out and developed it from there? I am just curious because sometimes I hear ideas and try to write to that and others start out as riffs or little things and just develop and evolve. Especially after playing them live I hear things to add etc. I was just curious what the process was like and if writing the Ashen Mortality material was any different than any of your other projects (which all seem great to these ears)

**silentwake** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Wed May 16, 2007 1:12 am

ghosts of athanasius wrote:

Well thanks Ian. I can appreciate the difference between a live dynamic and recorded. I had a taste of that myself.

Did you build the songs around a riff, or did you have an idea or more elaborate section worked out and developed it from there? I am just curious because sometimes I hear ideas and try to write to that and others start out as riffs or little things and just develop and evolve. Especially after playing them live I hear things to add etc. I was just curious what the process was like and if writing the Ashen Mortality material was any different than any of your other projects (which all seem great to these ears)

No, the writing for all the bands is the same really. I write music or lyrics first. It works well either way. I tend to only have a song ready for playing live when it is finished, so they normally stay the same after this point. Some songs get improved over time, but they are normally ones that are a long time in the waiting stage, like a lot of the songs from MSW SoS.

**SabbSteve** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Thu May 17, 2007 6:43 pm

Hey Ian,I am a longtime fan of your music since the Seventh Angel days.I have one of the Ashen cds too.Still have not heard the Silent material yet.Did the second SA ever get released on disc,I have not seen it anywhere. I have one of the promo cass from way back,always liked that cover art!

**silentwake** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Fri May 18, 2007 10:30 am

sabbsteve wrote:

Hey Ian,I am a longtime fan of your music since the Seventh Angel days.I have one of the Ashen cds too.Still have not heard the Silent material yet.Did the second SA ever get released on disc,I have not seen it anywhere. I have one of the promo cass from way back,always liked that cover art!

Hello sabbsteve!

Here is a link for the remastered re-issue of LFTW on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SEVENTH-ANGEL-LAMENT-FOR-THE-WEARY-BRAND-NEW-CD_W0QQitemZ140117294905QQihZ004QQcategoryZ307QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem

Check out My Silent Wake here- www.myspace.com/mysilentwake

There are also links from there to other things I have been involved with like Century Sleeper and The Other Window.

**TrogDawn** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Fri May 18, 2007 11:17 am

Both of the original SA albums have been re-issued on CD, right Ian? Weren't they limited to like 1000 copies or something like that? Have they pretty much sold out at this point? Huh?

I have all the SA stuff, including the cool live & demos CD release! Ed-banger!

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**silentwake** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Sat May 19, 2007 5:56 pm

TrogDawn wrote:

Both of the original SA albums have been re-issued on CD, right Ian? Weren't they limited to like 1000 copies or something like that? Have they pretty much sold out at this point? Huh?

I have all the SA stuff, including the cool live & demos CD release! Ed-banger!

I'm not sure if they are sold out yet as I have seen some on ebay. They were limited to 1000 each though.

**Glorfindel** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Fri May 25, 2007 5:11 am

Nice to see an AM forum here! Really like both albums.

**silentwake** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Sat May 26, 2007 5:25 am

Spookyman wrote:

Nice to see an AM forum here! Really like both albums.

Thanks!

**etombdissonance** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Sun May 27, 2007 4:51 pm

So far I like everything I've heard from you. It's like a progression of my musical tastes yet never leaving one behind. I actually like the first AM a lot. Sort of a raw garage feel that I find pretty cool.

**silentwake** · Subject: Re: Welcome to the forum Tue May 29, 2007 2:03 pm

etombdissonance wrote:

So far I like everything I've heard from you. It's like a progression of my musical tastes yet never leaving one behind. I actually like the first AM a lot. Sort of a raw garage feel that I find pretty cool.

Thanks a lot. That first album was recorded on an extremely tight budget. The engineer is sifting through the original multitracks of this album at present and has promised me a cd of the separate recorded tracks to use for a future re-mix. Could be interesting. I actually saw him at the Trouble gig in wolverhampton last night as he works in the venue where they played-quite bizarre.