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 who fulfilled live duties until 2010.

Love, Hate and Sorrow, Ikon's sixth studio album was released in November 2009 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 shows the new material's 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 embarked on its seventh European tour in September 2009. Love, Hate and Sorrow saw 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. The band has also released 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 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 returned to Europe, and delivered its best album yet, Love, Hate and Sorrow and its first video clip for the single 'A Line on a Dark Day'. 2010 began with IKON supporting H.I.M. in Melbourne and will see the release of a video single, covers compilation and live DVD.

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Tags: Darkwave, Gothic Rock, Post-Punk

2002 - Origins: Punto Omega was founded in 2002 in Buenos Aires, Argentina after Pilgrim (programming, vocals and concepts) and Viator (lyrics and concepts) who worked together in other musical projects before, decided to form a band of their own combining EBM and Darkwave with orchestral and martial elements. They started to compose new songs and when the first demo tracks were finished they had the chance to include them in an argentinian electro compilation CD where the name Punto Omega appeared officially for the first time.

2003 - Contract and first remixes: Thomas Rainer (singer and composer for the austrian band L..âme Immortelle) also listened to the demos (which were available for download from Punto Omega's website) and introduced the band to the Trisol Music Group label, who signed Punto Omega soon thereafter. Now equipped with a record contract, Punto Omega started to work on what would become their first album and remixed several bands like The Retrosic (Germany), Z Prochek (Sweden), Project X (Sweden), Brüderschaft and L..âme Immortelle (Austria). Some of these remixes and their song titled "Punto Omega" were published in Europe for the first time on the "DJ Revelation 1" Compilation.

2004 - First album: On February 13th, 2004 their debut album titled "Punto Omega" was released worldwide as a stunning double CD digipak edition by Trisol Music Group including remixes by bands such as L'âme Immortelle (Austria), Angels & Agony (Holland), Lights of Euphoria (Germany), The Retrosic (Germany), Grendel (Holland), Run Level Zero (Sweden), Davantage (Germany), Sero Overdose (Germany), Jesus Complex (Holland), Nuclear Noise (Argentina), and the collaborations on guest vocals by Thomas Rainer (L'âme Immortelle) and Claus Bita (Cenobita) getting raving reviews in all major electro/gothic magazines and entitled as "Newcomer of the Month" in Orkus, Sonic Seducer and Zillo (the 3 biggest alternative music magazines in germany).

In june of the same year, the album was sold out. Because of this Trisol Music Group decided to re-release it, but this time without the bonus remix CD. This album was also released by North America..s leading Electro/Dark music label Metropolis Records (Apoptygma Berzerk, Front Line Assembly, Juno Reactor, KMFDM, Peter Murphy, etc.) for their territories.

2005 - Collaborations and more remixes: Through 2005 Punto Omega worked on remixes for Aiboforcen (Belgium), Dope Stars Inc. (Italy), Kirlian Camera (Italy), ASP (Germany) and composed an exclusive track titled "Sawtooth" which was included in the movie score for the film "SAW II" written by Charlie Clouser (Nine Inch Nails, Rob Zombie, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson). Pilgrim made a guest vocalist appearance in the song "You Are" by the german band Lights of Euphoria. Also in this year the band started to write for their next album.

2006 - Second album and first tour: In 2006 Punto Omega recorded their second album titled "Nostalgias del Origen", which was released by Trisol Music Group on December 4th in a luxurious limited edition of 2CDs in an A5 digipak with a 28 pages booklet and including remixes by bands as Funker Vogt (Germany), Dope Stars Inc. (Italy), Samsas Traum (Germany), Heimataerde (Germany), Metallspürhunde (Switzerland) and more. It also features the collaboration on guest vocals by Elena Fossi (Kirlian Camera) and Iván Muñoz (Hopeless) among others. This edition also includes a video with an interview and making of the album. "Nostalgias del Origen" got excellent reviews worlwide.

In December, 2006 Punto Omega presented their live show for the first time touring Germany and Austria as L'Âme Immortelle's special guests playing in 14 german cities and in Viena, Austria. The tour was a big success and left many opened doors for the near future.

2007 - First tour as main band & Wave Gotik Treffen festival: 2007 was a very important year for Punto Omega. The band made the first tour on their own playing in Chile, Spain, Germany, Denmark and Sweden including the world famous Wave Gotik Treffen festival becoming the first electro band from Argentina to play there.

2008/2009 - Third album: After a succesful and inspiring 2007, 2008 was dedicated to write and record the new album which is already finished and about to be released on January 16th 2009. The band also made a remix for the austrian industrial act Nachtmahr and appeared on the european version of the blockbuster SAW4 Movie Soundtrack. The band is currently preparing for their future live shows.

Releases:

• Punto Omega (CD) Matrix Cube, Metropolis 2004
• Nostalgias Del Origen (CD), [Trisol] Music Group GmbH 2006
• Noche Oscura Del Alma (CD), [Trisol] Music Group GmbH 2009

Tracks Appear On:

• Metropolis 2004 (CD, Smplr), Punto Omega, Metropolis 2004
• Orkus Compilation XIII (CD, Comp, Enh), Punto Omega, Orkus 2004
• Orkus Compilation XV (CD, Comp, Enh), Mundo De Robots, Orkus 2004
• Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 35 (CD, Smplr), Punto Omega (Lights Of...) Sonic Seducer 2004
• Zillo Club Hits 9 (CD), Punto Omega, Zillo 2004
• Endzeit Bunkertracks [Act 1] (4xCD + Box), Punto Omega (Run Level Zero remix), Alfa Matrix 2005
• Orkus Compilation 7 (CD, Comp), La Fusión, Orkus 2005
• Orkus Presents The Best Of 2004 (Part 1) (2xCD), Punto Omega, Angelstar, Orkus 2005
• SAW II Original Score (2xCD, Dig), Sawtooth, [Trisol] Music Group GmbH 2006
• Saw IV Music From And Inspired By Saw IV (CD, Comp), Mundo De Mentiras (Saw mix), [Trisol] Music Group GmbH 2008
• Endzeit Bunkertracks [Act - IV] (4xCD, Comp), Fabricantes De Miedo, Alfa Matrix 2009
• Orkus Compilation 46 (CD, Smplr), Humanimal Planet, Orkus 2009
• Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 91 (CD, Comp), Fabricantes De Miedo, Sonic Seducer 2009

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Tags: Darkwave, EBM, Industrial, Martial Industrial