Fact: AXEHEAD INC was NOT a Crimson Thorn side-project. It was a side project for Miles Sunde and Luke Renno, because they had been in Crimson Thorn since the early 1990's. Crimson Thorn is still going strong. (see the interview of Crimson Thorn I did for Heaven's Metal in the June/July issue. The rest of the interview is available at www.hmmag.com in the Heaven's Metal section). I love Miles and Luke and Andy-those guys are my brothers in Christ and i have their phone numbers on speed dial. i would fight anyone to protect them. The reason I feel the need to state that AXEHEAD INC was not a Thorn side project, is that Eric and I started the band. Miles was the 3rd member. It was never a side project to Eric and I. I've gotten tired of reading that on bios and web sites!! When Miles joined us, Crimson Thorn hadn't practiced for almost a year and had no active drummer. Kevin only wanted to play festivals at that point.
MYTH: Eric Nelson and Bryan Krotzer were ex-REBORN personnel. The bio on this myspace page was copied (and edited afterwards) from a web site called therockdector.com That bio was copied and paraphrased from the bio that i wrote for the original Axehead Inc web site, which is still available at www.geocities.com/axehead_inc
(don't forget the underscore between axehead and inc)
I harbor no ill will towards the creator of therockdector --who ever that is. in fact i was flattered when i first read that!! It originates from somewhere in Europe, I believe? The REBORN i mentioned in the official Axehead Inc bio was a local Christian rock band in the Minneapolis, Mn area that i was in. That band was where the 1st version of King of Rock n Roll was written. (Miles later totally created new guitar parts and really made it rock!!). Eric auditioned for Reborn. That is how Eric and I met. Rock detector has my old Reborn band linked to several European (?) death metal bands that I'm sure are good, but i've never heard 1 minute of their music.
Fact: Axehead Inc has not jammed as a band since early December 2004.
Fact: Axehead inc songs King of Rock n Roll (live version) and I'll Leave You Lying, which both started with me and my old boombox in my basement, are still being downloaded from the link available at www.geocities.com/axehead_inc
The Music section has little speaker icons in those song sections that link to music.download.com or CNET.com or whatever the old MP3.com is calling it self now. That link is also available from www.abcnews.com
www.cnnnews.com
and www.chicagotribune.com
of course you have to do a search on AXEHEAD INC
I found this all out recently and also discovered that an internet radio station in SC played I'll Leave You Lying in December of 2006 in the middle of a pile of secular rock and pop songs. That, besides the fact that i keep seeing new hits in google.com for Axehead Inc-web sites i can't read in different languages, people's favoite personal lists, etc. is why i decided to start this site.
FACT: Who wrote the songs--Luke wrote the music for No More Bills and I'll Leave You Lying. He wrote both lyrics and vocal melody lines and the music for Out From The Shadows
Miles wrote the music for King of Rock n Roll and He's Coming Down.
Bryan wrote the lyrics and vocal melody lines for King of Rock n Roll, No More Bills, I'll Leave You Lying and He's Coming Down.
Eric contributed a ton and the musical intro (Live Version) and ending for King of Rock n Roll were his ideas.
God bless,
Bryan