Joy Division,
New Order,
Death In June,
Killing Joke, Kraftwerk, Placebo, U2, Simple Minds, The Church, Ultravox, Smashing Pumpkins, Big Country, Icehouse, The Cure etc
Australian band IKON has been creating its unique brand of wave music for eighteen years. Chris McCarter (vocals, guitar, programming) and Dino Molinaro (bass) began to write songs as high school students in 1988. In 1991, their original name Death in the Dark was replaced by IKON, and the band’s original singer was Michael Carrodus, who departed in 1997 after two albums. The duo was joined by guitarist Anthony Cornish in 2006 to complete the band’s current line-up.
Love, Hate and Sorrow, IKON’s sixth studio album, will be released on September 11, and was three years in the making. While retaining the essence of influences such as Joy Division, early New Order and Death in June, IKON has added further textures to the band’s style to produce its most accomplished full-length release. Love, Hate and Sorrow embraces melodic song structures without forgetting IKON’s origins and the music that inspired the band to release its first album fifteen years ago. The response to the first two singles foreshadows its likely appeal to fans of old- and new-school wave music: Black Magazin named the first single ‘A Line on a Dark Day’ the second-best track of 2008 and music journalist Mick Mercer commented that these “pioneers in the Gothic genre” have produced a “pure dreamy wave cut” in the form of ‘Amongst the Runes’.
The band will embark on its seventh European tour in September 2009 on the back of the release of its most-anticipated album to-date. Love, Hate and Sorrow sees IKON return to their first European label, Apollyon (with whom they first signed with 1994), and also marks their signing to Vendetta Music in the United States, and continues a relationship with Shadowplay Records in Russia. The band will also release its first music video clip for ‘A Line on a Dark Day’. The next single from the album will be ‘Torn Apart’, a slower track which, in its touching simplicity and raw emotion, marks a departure from the powerful guitar-based club tracks for which IKON is renowned.
IKON has a prolific history of recordings (five EPs and seventeen singles in addition to albums) and plans to re-issue its first two albums, In the Shadow of the Angel and Flowers for the Gathering, in 2010, in remastered and expanded format. This will make these pioneering releases available to fans who have just discovered the band and will reward those old enough to have bought the originals with a generous selection of bonus material from the band’s archives.
On the strength of a repertoire of old and new hits, IKON has frequently toured Australia, Europe and the UK. IKON has played on the same bill as The Sisters of Mercy, H.I.M., Soft Cell, Death in June, London After Midnight and The Mission. IKON has performed at the Eurorock Festival in Belgium, the M’era Luna Festival in Hildesheim, Germany before an audience of more than 15,000 people and has also appeared twice at the world’s largest goth festival, Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany.
IKON has been called “the AC/DC of goth” for its long-term success creating and performing music that rocks internationally from all the way Down Under. In 2009, IKON returns to Europe, and promises to deliver fans its best album and tour yet.
IKON are members of the Crash Frequency Collective. Crash Frequency is a collective of Industrial/Gothic bands from Australia who share a common goal of helping promote their music worldwide.
IKON has released the first single from the band's forthcoming release Love, Hate and Sorrow called ... The Ep features a cover of Pink Floyd's Set The Controls For The Heart, which is one of a dozen songs that will feature on the covers compilation A Different Story to be released as a download album by Cleopatra Records. The Ep also includes three additional tracks from the album sessions and an extended version of the single.
Tracklisting
Amongst the Runes
Set the Controls to the Heart of the Sun (long version)
IKON's full length release THE BURDEN OF HISTORY a compilation cd containing all 16 singles, even though Without Shadows has not been released to date, can be purchased via
The first 1500 copies, comes with a bonus cd, with selected b-sides from all the IKON singles. This compilation features certain material available on cd for the first time, as well as long deleted single tracks!
CD1
Why (7”single version)
Echoes of Silence (7” single version)
Condemnation (7” single version)
Life Without End (Album version)
Subversion (Single remix)
Ghost In My Head (Single remix)
Reality is lost (Single version)
Lifeless (Single version)
The Shallow Sea (Single version)
Blue Snow Red Rain (10” single version)
Afterlife (7” single version)
Ceremony (Single version)
Psychic Vampire (Single version)
Rome (Single version)
Without Shadows (Single version)
CD2-Limited edition
As Time Goes By-(Live at the Arthouse Melbourne 1.1.1992)
So Far Away
Never Too Much
The Empty World
Overcome
Geistiges Erwachen
Fatal Attraction
Day Of Crispian
Tear It Down
Faces In the Wind
Elohim (Live in Cologne Germany 13.8.2001)
In A Lonely Place
Blue Snow Red Rain (Live In Milano Italy 16.6.2003)
Sinister
Understanding
The Garden Of The Lost (Live in Sydney Australia 17.9.2005)
IKON - FALL APART ST NIKLAAS 12/05/07
IKON's full length release DESTROYING THE WORLD TO SAVE IT can be purchased via -
Hello Chris and Dino !! We are french fan and a new wave rock band ("LA DAME BLANCHE", new song of us), I see you in show (live in Marseille, France). Your music is hypnotic, melodic, i like very much. Your last album "love, hate and sorrow", very good. I have all your album, it's difficult to find cd of you in france.. I buy by the net and your site !! Thank you very much and good luck, long life !!
Come help us celebrate the launch of our new EP, Global Warning this Friday 11th December at the Arthouse (Cnr Elizabeth and Queensbury St, Melbourne).
All the bands have a great aggressive sound, so come down and have a beer with us and listen to some kickass bands.
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