Often misjudged
for being part of the new batch of EBM bands, Ionic Vision
has always been at the forefront of modern EBM since 1992. Honing
aggression, angst and electronic terror from their cold machinery, they proudly
present you their fourth full studio album “Bitter Isolation”. An album that perfectly
reflects Ionic Vision’s feelings and sounds in the blessed year
2008.
From their
early EBM cradle of “Rage against the acoustic” (ION002-1997) over
the extreme raw and brutal “NeuMaschinen” (ION006-2000), to the high
tech bashing “Actual” (ION009-2005), they now created the perfect
blend of all these earlier releases. “Bitter Isolation (ION011)” touches everything from their
root EBM (in songs like “Take Cover” or “Die Macht”) to raw
and undistinguished EBM (in songs like “New Breed” or “Remembrance”) and their
high tech standard (tracks like “Insects” or “Visions of Order”). All
musical aspects of what Ionic Vision stands for, still focused on Electronic Body
Music in its deepest essence, can be found on “Bitter
Isolation”.
“Bitter Isolation” not only reflects Ionic
Vision’s aural past, the title of the album directly faces critics with the
band’s current status, feeling quite bitter in their isolated environment. As advocates
of the EBM genre for years, Ionic Vision is currently the only
EBM band that never ceased existing in over 16 years, struggling
hard to keep the EBM genre alive ever since. In their continuous battle
for recognition, Ionic Vision have always been pushed back by
critics.
It is time to accept that EBM is still alive, time to lift
Ionic Vision out of their bitter isolation, to acknowledge that Ionic Vision is,
together with some of their ancestors, a source of inspiration for many of the
current EBM movement and still to come. It is time to leave these guilty
by association tags in the past and move on! Released on Machineries of Joy and
available July 18th, 2008.
01. Insects
02. New
breed
03. Trust
04. Sleep
05. Reveal
06.
Remembrance
07. Bitter isolation
08. Visions of
order
09. Open your eyes
10. Take cover
11. Die
Macht
12. She is
13. Die Macht - orange sector remix
14.
Sleep - full moon mix
15. Die Macht - the horrorist mix
16. Sleep - arp
remix
