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The Pax Cecilia

About Me

BLESSED ARE THE BONDS, our 2007 release, is now available for free download on our website, www.paxcecilia.com . We have a few remaining physical copies we will be distributing at shows and in person, we thank everyone who requested a copy, and we hope that you continue to share our music with others...
Reviewers and other friendly web-publications:
The Muse's Muse
"The Pax Cecilia has created an album that reconfigures the possibilities of ambient, art-rock and progressive metal, making it sound beautiful, menacing and refreshingly new as they do it. Blessed are the Bonds is one of the few pieces of art that transcends definition, and transforms nothing more than twelve notes into a musical force that will reveal something different with each listen. For an album that will only cost you an hour, this is nothing short of a masterpiece."
Sputnik Music
"I haven't been stirred by an album like this in a long long time. There is a divine power boiling inside of Blessed Are the Bonds that makes it feel like the stars are aligning..."
Maelstrom Online
"Blessed are the Bonds is an album that reassures people that music is actually art. The hold this album has on your emotion is almost exquisite, as it runs the gamut from sublime to disheartening..."
Deaf Sparrow Zine
"Blessed Are the Bonds is one of those ambitious records that travels through foreign and uncharted territories, conquering all and in the end coming home triumphant..."
Metal Review
"I’ve simply run out of great things to say about this band and this album, and frankly I’m not sure there are enough words to do it justice."
"I just stood in awe of the majestic metal ambient awesomeness."
- John Stepp
Metal Obsession
Metal Invader
Sonic Frontiers
Music Emissions
Sound as Language
Sea of Tranquility
AbsolutePunk
Whatis174
SicZine
Decoy Music
Silent Ballet
Ultimate Metal
Friedhof Magazine (Spanish)
Metalorgie (French)
Feiticeira webzine (Spanish)
Progressive Area (French)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/22/2004
Band Website: paxcecilia.com
Sounds Like: waves in the air.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Metalstorm best post-metal album of 2007 nomination

it is to our honor that "blessed are the bonds" has been nominated for the best post-metal album of 2007 on metalstorm.ee, a european webzine...if you'd like, you can see us and the other spectacular ...
Posted by The Pax Cecilia on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:32:00 PST

Sputnik Music best of 2007

Sputnik music, a website that has been very good to us, has voted "blessed are the bonds" into its list of the top 50 albums of 2007...please check it out and support the site here...-kent...
Posted by The Pax Cecilia on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:52:00 PST

SonicFrontiers.net Compilation Album

SonicFrontiers.net has included our song 'the Machine' on it's first ever compilation album. There's a bunch of great songs on this from bands like Sigh (The End Records), Irepress (Translation Loss ...
Posted by The Pax Cecilia on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:18:00 PST

Interview at Deafsparrow.com

if anyone is interested in some more insight into our methods of distribution, our creation mentality, and our motives with blessed are the bonds, i invite you to check out an interview i recently gav...
Posted by The Pax Cecilia on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:02:00 PST

on pretension.

it seems that the term "pretentious" has been thrown around a lot lately, i've mostly noticed it in relation to us and our songwriting approach, but i've also heard it in relation to a whole slew of a...
Posted by The Pax Cecilia on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:36:00 PST

mastered versions

we have replaced the earlier posted versions of tragedy and progress with our final mastered versions... i apologize to those who already added the songs to their profile... these ones will be up for ...
Posted by The Pax Cecilia on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:43:00 PST

lyrics.

for those of you having trouble accessing the lyrics, enjoy!***the tragedy i sing the song of sinking shipsin a soft and sleeping sea.a song of slow rises and falls,a song where refrains are only rest...
Posted by The Pax Cecilia on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:01:00 PST

the Tragedy and the Progress

it was a difficult process choosing the tracks to display online... all the tracks are just smaller parts of the larger musical and conceptual whole... so none would be proper representations of the f...
Posted by The Pax Cecilia on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:53:00 PST

empathy. new audio

it is our pleasure to present to you an mp3 that we recorded tonight. "empathy (an exercise)". it is four members of the pax and our friend dave carey on violin. i figured its the least we could...
Posted by The Pax Cecilia on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:07:00 PST

"An Aurora" extended live version posted!

we just posted a live song from a show on august 14th in long island... its an extended version (i think 8 minutes long) of a song off of nouveau "an aurora: the crux candide"... can't say much for ...
Posted by The Pax Cecilia on Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:32:00 PST