Septimus Orion is a recording project initiated with the release of its first studio album CAGED in August 2008. The album includes an audio version of Clifford Meth

Clifford Meth

Clifford Lawrence Meth is an American writer and editor best known for his dark fiction. He has said that his work is often "self-consciously Jewish."-Early life:...

's short story Queers. This short story was originally published in god's 15 minutes by Aardwolf Publishing. Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost

Celtic Frost was a metal band from Zürich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal genres. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer's departure in 2008, Celtic Frost decided to break up again...

 drummer Reed St. Mark

Reed St. Mark

Reed St. Mark is an American drummer best known for playing with the avant-garde Swiss heavy metal band Celtic Frost.Reed St. Mark joined Celtic Frost in 1985 for the recording of their Emperor's Return E.P. and the highly influential To Mega Therion and Into The Pandemonium albums...

 lends his percussive talents while also working on the Triptykon

Triptykon

Triptykon is a musical project of Thomas Gabriel Fischer, founding member of the pioneering heavy metal bands Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and Apollyon Sun. Fischer announced his departure from Celtic Frost in May 2008 and shortly afterwards revealed his new project would be entitled Triptykon...

 project with former Celtic Frost band mate Tom Gabriel Fischer. Veteran songwriter and musician Mark Radice

Mark Radice

Mark Radice is an American singer/musician and producer, who has worked with a variety of different artists and achieved minor success with his own material in the 1970s...

 joined the cast of Septimus Orion while continuing to compose and record for Public Television. For this work, Radice was nominated for an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 in 2008 http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Daytime_Emmy_Awards/2008. Former front man and vocalist for Lodi

Lodi, New Jersey

Lodi is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 24,136. The borough of Lodi is governed under the 1923 Municipal Manager Law.Lodi owes its name to the Italian city of Lodi...

 hardcore punk

Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...

 band Rosemary's Babies

Rosemary's Babies

Rosemary's Babies was an American hardcore punk band formed in Lodi, New Jersey in 1980. Its members included J.R. - vocals, Post Mortem - bass, CA Richie - guitar, and Eerie Von - drums. The band was active until 1983 and produced a 7" EP titled "Blood Lust", released on the band's own Ghastly...

, who is only known by the name JR, joined Septimus Orion with a rerecorded version of his song Sanctioned Violence.

The album CAGED features cover art by the late "X-Men" comic artist Dave Cockrum

Dave Cockrum

David Emmett Cockrum was an American comic book artist known for his co-creation of the new X-Men characters Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus...

. Album also includes Space-themed music

Space-themed music

Space-themed music is any music, from any genre or style, with lyrics or titles relating to outer space or space travel.Songs or other musical forms influenced by the concept of outer space have appeared in music throughout history, both in instrumental and vocal pieces with lyrics. As early as...

, using sounds from space recorded by NASA

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...

 and The University of Iowa.

Contributing Group Members

• Clifford Meth
  Clifford Meth
  Clifford Lawrence Meth is an American writer and editor best known for his dark fiction. He has said that his work is often "self-consciously Jewish."-Early life:...
  
  
• Reed St. Mark
  Reed St. Mark
  Reed St. Mark is an American drummer best known for playing with the avant-garde Swiss heavy metal band Celtic Frost.Reed St. Mark joined Celtic Frost in 1985 for the recording of their Emperor's Return E.P. and the highly influential To Mega Therion and Into The Pandemonium albums...
  
  
• Dave Cockrum
  Dave Cockrum
  David Emmett Cockrum was an American comic book artist known for his co-creation of the new X-Men characters Nightcrawler, Storm, and Colossus...
  
  
• Mark Radice
  Mark Radice
  Mark Radice is an American singer/musician and producer, who has worked with a variety of different artists and achieved minor success with his own material in the 1970s...
  
  
• JR
  JR
  Jr. is the abbreviation for Junior.For articles named Junior;, see Junior JR may also stand for:-People:* Jackie Robinson , an American Major League Baseball player...
  
  
• Kate Oberjat
• Tom Monda
• Chris Cali
• Christian Krank

Track list details

1. Bludgeoned - 7:01

2. Bellatrix - 3:27

3. Rush Rush

Rush Rush (Debbie Harry song)

"Rush Rush" is a song by the American vocalist Debbie Harry. Released as a single in 1983, it is taken from the soundtrack album of the film Scarface .-Song information:...

-3:34

4. Rush Rush (trip mix) - 5:53

5. Sanctioned Violence - 2:29

6. "Queers" by Clifford Meth

Clifford Meth

Clifford Lawrence Meth is an American writer and editor best known for his dark fiction. He has said that his work is often "self-consciously Jewish."-Early life:...

- 37:25

External links

• Septimus Orion official website
• Reed St. Mark official website
• Mark Radice Discography
• Clifford Meth at the Comic Book DB
• space audio at UIOWA