Ixion - To The Void

This is going to be great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXgOa1OI0Q8

great song

Great album! Thanks to one Marcel for pinpointing me towards this beauty!

Beautiful album. I feel like traveling through the space when listening this beauty. Strong contender for doom metal album of the year.

I'd say it sounds like it's time for me to check this shit out. Marcel was hyping it like mad when it came out.

Pretty good, I like it. I think it'll grow on me...

EDIT: meh, it didn't. Atmospheric stuff is really wonderful, but metallically (?) speaking I found it a bit lacking.
The songs are generally opened and closed by a beautiful and very promising ambiance, but then the doom sections are sometimes underwhelming and uneventful, except for some keyboard interludes here and there.
Not a bad album by any means; simply not so memorable, imo.
Maybe it could've been an excellent spacey-ambient album without the doom metal component, who knows.

The thing that bugs me about this album is the shift of mood (and might I even say sub-genre) towards the end of the album. Its actually the kind of good doom throughout the first 8 tracks that requires to be immersed into its soundscapes and such soundscapes emotional inspirations/expressions. Whats even better is how it dared me to ponder the parallel and significance of having "doom in space". Its kind of a weird mix but when you really think about it "space" is an excellent metaphor of what the genre encompass. Obviously the emptiness of space is apathy and....emptiness one can find oneself when in despair while the forming bodies, stars, nebula, planets, represent the intangibility, seeming endlessness nature of our thoughts. If we were able to collect our thoughts in such a moment we would not be in such doom inspiring turmoil now would we.

However at track 8, Soothing in Agony, we are presented with riffs and song structures no longer esoteric but almost hooky, and all of the musical elements used to express the "space sorrow" form into such tangible instruments meant to rely on structure rather than mood and then.....its gothic-doom metal. Not really all that great of it neither. Its just their and left me begging to return to space.

I could not feel the album as "space journey", is like listening to Esoteric with more emotional and little catchy moments. I think the perception to feel something as "space" in this production comes just from seeing the artwork. Anyway is a good album

Space doom is indeed a very fitting description of this album since I actually felt like floating around in the vastness of space while listening to it. You can almost touch the atmosphere which completely engulfed me and resulted in a beautiful yet depressive trip through the emptiness.

2011 was full of great doom releases and Ixion's debut is without a doubt one of the highlights.

I am not a doom fan at all but this album has enough "distractions" to keep coming back...

There is no creativity ,it is something between my dying bride and theater of tragedy

Listened to this album yet again, imo a beautiful doom album. I just can't get enough of the keyboards!

Very spacey accessible Doom. Sometimes the death vocals are hard to hear under the keyboards. Last song "fade to blue" is great with the bagpipes making an appearance!

Written by Night Sight on 29.03.2012 at 08:41

There is no creativity ,it is something between my dying bride and theater of tragedy

Well, screw you! Seriously though, this album is amazing, better than current MDB and ToT combined if you ask me.

Also, why even compare it to those bands? It's completely different music if you ask me...

Just turned onto this one; I found it enjoyable to listen to but a little unremarkable. Maybe I expect too much but sometimes I just want them to turn it up and go really hard, if for only a moment, before heading back to the drones and keys. I also agree with Masonic that the vocals need to be taken up a notch and brought more to the fore. I think this band has a ton of potential though and will be watching for their new album.

Another case of "I should revisit this."

One of the most beautiful albums I heard last days, already spirited me away listening to Beyond the Skies.