IKON

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Like other inspired musical pairings, Chris McCarter (vocals, guitar, programming) and Dino Molinaro (bass) began to create music as high school students in 1988 and are still recording and performing together. In 1991, the original moniker Death in the Dark was replaced by IKON and seventeen years later the Australian band’s distinctive blend of post-punk, rock, and darkwave elements has gained a devoted international following.
IKON has released five studio albums, four EPs and seventeen singles, with additional unique versions that have been produced for Germany, America and Russia. The band’s last full-length release, Destroying the World to Save It, attained number 21 on the Native DJ World Charts for best album of 2005. IKON songs have also appeared on dozens of compilation CDs and the band has contributed cover versions to a select group of tribute albums to Joy Division, The Cure and Kraftwerk.
On the strength of the band’s accomplished and ever-expanding repertoire of songs, 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 (2001) in Belgium and at the M’era Luna Festival (2002) in Hildesheim, Germany before an audience of more than 15,000 people. The band has also appeared twice at the world’s largest goth festival, Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany, in 2003 and 2005 (during the latter year Anthony Cornish joined the live line-up on guitar).
In 2007, the final word was written in one chapter of IKON’s musical legacy when the band embarked upon ‘The Burden of History’ tour of Europe to mark the release of the singles collection (1992-2007) of the same name. As Time Goes By also appeared and brought the first studio sessions of the original incarnation of IKON and live tracks from the same period out of the archives and into the hands of fans.
The new EP League of Nations (2007) is testament to progression in IKON’s signature sound, providing a taster of the forthcoming album Love, Hate and Sorrow (anticipated release mid-2008). While retaining the essence of influences such as Joy Division, early New Order and Death in June, the future for IKON promises to add further texture to the band’s style. Love, Hate and Sorrow embraces more melodic song structures without entirely relinquishing the shadowy threads that are interweaved in the lyrics, art work, and music of one of the world’s most successful and enduring darkwave bands.
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 CDs are now available to purchase via ebay including the brand new Australian only EP containing 5 new tracks and a remix of the main one. League of Nations is the bands first new material, since the release of Destroying The World To Save It in 2005.This CD comes in a full color digipak and is sealed.
Cover photo by Anjella Roessler
Tracklisting for League of Nations:
*A Line On A Dark Day
*Krista
*Calm Before the Storm
*Hindsight
*Expatriate
*A Line On A Dark Day (remix).
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 - FALL APART ST NIKLAAS 12/05/07IKON's full length release DESTROYING THE WORLD TO SAVE IT can be purchased via -
Metropolis Records in the USA
Equinoxe Records in Europe
IKON in Australia
IKON's current single release ROME can be purchased via -
Equinoxe Records in Europe
IKON in Australia
Psychic Vampire EP
Nile
12 track German Edition
From Angels To Ashes
Nile
A best of compilation from 1997-2003
On The Edge of Forever
2001
Metropolis/Apollyon/Nile
This Quiet Earth
1998
Metropolis/Apollyon/Nile
Flowers For The Gathering
1996
Metropolis/Apollyon/Nile
In The Shadow Of The Angel
1994
Metropolis/Apollyon/Nile
IKON - Ceremony (Joy Division Cover)Live at Mestre, Italy 14 June 2003
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)