{"id":18993,"date":"2000-01-01T12:23:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-31T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/?p=18993"},"modified":"2026-07-12T12:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:43:22","slug":"sid-vishnu-blind-axe-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/2000\/01\/sid-vishnu-blind-axe-of-faith","title":{"rendered":"Sid Vishnu: Blind Axe of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Blind Axe of Faith is the debut album by Palmerston North punk band Sid Vishnu. It was recorded in June 1998 at The Stomach a month before the band played their last gig but wasn&#8217;t released until 2000, on Japanese label Manticore Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Released<\/strong><\/td><td>2000<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Label<\/strong><\/td><td>Manitcore Records<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Formats<\/strong><\/td><td>CD<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Recorded<\/strong><\/td><td>1998, June, The Stomach<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Engineer<\/strong><\/td><td>Jarrod Love<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Cover art<\/strong><\/td><td>Alan Scott<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oXu08te6wdo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blind Axe of Faith is the debut album by Palmerston North punk band Sid Vishnu. It was recorded in June 1998 at The Stomach a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lp","category-releases","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe2JUk-4Wl","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/sidvishnu_blindaxe_01.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24468,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18993\/revisions\/24468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upthepunks.co.nz\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}