The Eternal Afflict “Ion” (CD Afflict Me)

Artist: The Eternal Afflict Title: Ion Format: Album Label: Afflict Me Records Genre: Electronic, Gothic Release date: July 3, 2009

The Eternal Afflict have been producing music since 1990, but “Ion” is the first album I’ve heard with them. The first limited edition of “Ion” comes with a bonus disc with remixes and unreleased material.

While listening on this album and looking at the desciption of this album and reading something like “The new The Eternal Afflict album Ion is an absolute ‘must-have’ for all lovers of dark electronic sounds.”, I start to think how they came up with it because it’s nothing I can agree with. I must say I really suffered through the entire album. Sorry, but I didn’t get the feeling of anything good from this album, besides the intrumental track Drama For One, it got a great feeling to it with a pretty nice melody, my hope of something more like this started to rise but that was the last track so the small glimpse of light was put out before it even had the chance to spread. Other then that, just boring and painful.

Tracklist:

CD1
01. Rex Deus
02. HateLove
03. What We Will Be Tomorrow
04. 23 Seconds of Fame
05. Thorn (in Your Side)
06. 6 Million Ways to Die
07. The China Syndrome
08. Still Run Red
09. Eht Lanrete Raw
10. Suicide Kingdom
11. Lost
12. Who Cries First
13. Drama For One

CD2
01. Suicide Kingdom (FEINDFLUG Remix)
02. The Riot in Cellblock 666 (REGENERATOR Remix)
03. Like a V8 (Unreleased Song from 1998)
04. Rise and Fall (Unreleased Instrumental)