Tony Wakeford - Into The Woods

Anthony Charles Wakeford started his music career as bassist in '77 British punk band . In 1980 Crisis disbanded and Wakeford formed together with guitar player . In 1984, after being asked to leave, he formed his own personal project, called . The music continued in the vein of early Death In June and , with a nervous and dramatic post-punk sound. The new band disbanded quite soon. He came back in 1987 with Sol Invictus, involving and shortly later of and . The music of Sol Invictus on the first recordings was a mixture of acoustic and electronic sounds, creating some epic and dramatic songs which stand against the decadence of the West and of modern society. This sound characterizes the first three albums, "Against The Modern World" (1988), "In The Jaws Of The Serpent" (1989) and "Lex Talionis" (1990). In 1991 Ian Read left the band to form , and Wakeford took the sound of Sol Invictus progressively more towards a dark folk approach, hiring new musicians, such as violinist and singer and instrumentist . He's also active with the project , , and a series of collaborations with different artists. Sol Invictus' own self-produced label was , then called and finally .

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