Meads of Asphodel/ Song of Chu ‘Imperial East-West Onslaught’ cd Due for release Beginning September 2018. England’s, The Meads of Asphodel, join forces with Chinese folk metal exponents, Song of Chu, for this unique split cd, featuring new material from both bands. [also featuring Mirai [Sigh], Alan Davey [Hawkwind, Gunslinger] This split cements the Meads commitment…
The New Meads of Asphodel album is to be titled, “Running out of time doing nothing”. The lyrical theme for this release is a far more personal exploration of the usual Meads vision of human cruelty, plus a far deeper reflection of pain and oblivion. Without any specific concept to focus upon, Metatron has released the pangs…
Meads of Asphodel News Metatron has been writing lyrics for 15 new songs for the forthcoming new album. The demo tracks are a return to the early to mid era Mead’s style with a feverish creative spark being formed between Metatron and J.D Tait, making this album more fluent, unfathomable, and up-beat. Metatron had originally…
Wolves of Avalon News The new album ‘The Book of Aneirin’, is complete musically, with vocal input from, Thurios [Drudkh, Hoest [Taake], and Forefather. This will be ready for the New Year also, with some tracks still to have lyrics written.
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Wolves news J. Marinos has truly crafted some of the best Wolves material to date. The Wolves of Avalon next album, The Book of Aneirin, has been written and all demo’s virtually complete. Guests that have already submitted vocals are, Hoest [Taake], Thurios [Drudkh], and, Wulfstan [Forefather]. The album is sounding more progressive and yet still…
Meads News J. D Tait has crafted 15 demo tracks for the forthcoming [as yet untitled] album. Metatron is adding lyrics and the band will select what tracks will be on the album, and the preceding single. No release date has yet been decided. The Meads have donated an exclusive track ‘The Stone that Killed Goliath’…
This site has taken longer than expected to get off of the ground… but it’s finished… well, maybe not finished, but it’s got enough information to begin with Both The Meads of Asphodel and The Wolves of Avalon have not had a strong enough online presence over the years, so hopefully this site will rectify…
From Dean Riley: When researching for the album “The Murder Of Jesus The Jew” you pretty much arrived at a solid idea of who you think the true historical Jesus (behind all the myth) really was. Were there any other narratives you uncovered both of the fanciful and credible that you had to check out…
From Che Khaningham: I’ve always kind of wondered about Metatron’s secrecy, IE: veiling himself in photo and video. Why? My guess has always been that he’s just in some other line of work that would be compromised by a revelation that he fronts the Meads The formation of The Meads was always based around the…
From Paul Henderson: Out of all the artists you’ve collaborated with in both the Meads and Wolves, who did you most enjoy working with, and who else would you like to work with if you could pick anybody? Huw Lloyd Langton and Mirai would be the top choices due to my familiarity and friendship with these fellows.…
Every now and then, we throw open the chance to ask Metatron anything you want (within the realms of decency) so here we go with our first question, with is from Brendo Smith I’m only remotely familiar with Hawkwind. What 3 albums should I start my journey with and why? Hawkwind seem to shift from…
