2006: Acerbus from Ondskapt and Nattdal from Dimhymn and Lifelover spawn the idea of starting a 'black n' roll' project aside of Acerbus' band Ondskapt. Totalscorn from Zavorash, Avsky and Selin joins the line-up and the concept/name takes shape through a joint effort of this original line-up. During the summer of 2006 a first 's/t' album is recorded at Studio Endarker, Norrköping, through the support of Total Holocaust Records of Southern Sweden. The album is brief and to the point, a rather straightforward materialization of the term 'black n roll'. Reviews are fine, but the members all feel it's just a teaser compared to the real capability of the line-up. By the time this album is released, a music video is all made and dropped in the net as a pro-bono deal.
2007: The line-up returns to Studio Endarker, recording their second album 'Assorted Armament'. This time supported by German indie-label Sigilla Malae. During this recording session Selin leaves the line-up, basically on account of not being rehearsed enough, and Smoker is recruited for the drum-works with Hravn of Devil's Whorehouse covering some parts of the album. 'Assorted Armament' becomes much more of a solid album, compared to the first release, and the band's peculiar mixture of talents starts to color the final result more strongly. It's no longer a question of 'just' black n roll, but a more advancing meddling in different direction only loosely tied together by the general standards of black metal. The album is widely acclaimed and accepted as something amongst the 'best' of current extreme Swedish bands, and not many months pass before a deal is inked with Candlelight Records.
2008: The band begins rehearsing seriously and recruits Talon as 'third guitarist' - at first thought to be a session-member, Talon gets the status of full membership for a brief while. In late May 2008 IXXI performs an underground gig at the H62-club in Stockholm, just days before returning to Studio Endarker for the recording of Elect Darkness - now under the wings of Candlelight Records. The studio-period of 2008 again causes changes to the line-up - as Talon is dropped from the line-up and Smoker quits by own volition, after both having done their part in the studio.
2009: After a pretty long wait, IXXI's third effort Elect Darkness is finally released by Candlelight Records UK, March 16th.
The band starts to rehearse for more live shows and a new drummer is requited. But internal struggles stops the band, and no live shows are planned or performed. After some months of silence Totalscorn suddenly quits the band for complete unknown reasons. Attempts to find a new singer are made, but they all fall short in comparison to Totalscorn. The band have some more rehearsals but nothing happens and the year of 2009 comes to an end.
IXXI statement 2006:
IXXI is not an act meant for the clean and politically correct environment of commercially viable music. IXXI has come to signify 'black metal in the new millennium', and with that all the animosity and ruggedness that the genre represented before certain bands got so big they just had to sell out. IXXI has the intention to keep administering state of art albums for a select breed of extreme people, as a waterhole for those disgusted by mainstream-music and those blasé of extreme music that has become all but common in this day and age.
