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IKON

Official IKON Live Journal

Created on 2004-02-11 20:17:05 (#2187873), last updated 2009-10-02

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Location:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Website:	IKON on Myspace

Contact:

afterlife@sunet.com.au

Bio

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.

Dino Molinaro bass

Chris McCarter vocals/guitar

Anthony Cornish guitar

Photography by anjellaroessler

IKON has released the first single from the band's forthcoming release Love, Hate and Sorrow called Amongst The Runes. 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)

War of Love

Nowhere to Turn

Stalag 13

Amongst the Runes (extended version)

IKON (imm3245) ebay link

IKON's current 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

Equinoxe Records in Europe

IKON in Australia

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's release DESTROYING THE WORLD TO SAVE IT can be purchased via -

Metropolis Records in the USA

Equinoxe Records in Europe

IKON in Australia

DISCOGRAPHY

Albums

* The Burden of History (2007)

* As Time Goes By (The original IKON) (2007)

* Destroying The World To Save It (2005)

* From Angels To Ashes (2003)

* On The Edge Of Forever (2001)

* Dawn Of The Ikonoclast (1999)

* This Quiet Earth (1998)

* The Final Experience (1997)

* Flowers For The Gathering (1996)

* A Moment In Time (1995)

* In The Shadow Of The Angel (1994)

EPs

* Psychic Vampires (2004)

* Ghost In My Head (1998)

* The Echos Of Silence (1994)

Singles

* Without Shadows (2007)

* Rome (2005)

* Death By Dawn (7" Single 2005)

* I Never Wanted You (2004)

* Psychic Vampire (2004)

* Ceremony (2003)

* Afterlife (2002)

* Afterlife (7" Single/2002)

* Blue Snow Red Rain (10" Single/2001)

* The Shallow Sea Pt. 2 (2000)

* The Shallow Sea Pt. 1 (2000)

* Lifeless (1999)

* Reality Is Lost (1999)

* Subversion (1998)

* Life Without End (1996)

* In A Lonely Place (1995)

* Condemnation (7" Single/1995)

* The Echos Of Silence (7" Single/1994)

* Why (7" Single/1992)

Live Albums

* Black Friday (Live at the Blackout Club, Rome, Italy) (2003)

* Twilight Zone (Live at Eurorock Belgium) (7" Single/2003)

* A Tale from the Darkside (Live in Berlin) (2001)

* Black Radio (Live at Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne) (2001)

* Black Radio (Live at Esplanade Hotel, Melbourne) (12" vinyl lp/1995)

* Thank you very much, good night (Live in Melbourne) (1994)

* Out of Balance, out of Tune (Live in Melbourne) (1993)