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Crimson Ivy, the industrial / gothic / dirge / electronic / alternative / rock band. While you
are free to take your seatbelt off and roam around, you do so at your own risk. Navigation control is at the
left, pictures go places, and below are links to us at other locations you may frequent. You are now behind
the wheel. Be sure to bookmark us and plot your return, as new music / video / photos / news will be added
sporadically.
Industrial Gothic Noise Maker
Newscast
1. New album on hiatus for a bit, playing live 2010! Check back for updates and progress...
2. New section on the downloads page for rarities, singles, etc. - first up is a 2009 version of Giving In, originally from the 1988 LP...
3. Track list (and more coming) from the 'gold' CD here...
4. More on the videos page, fotolage page, and downloads page... now visit us on Last.fm and Jango as well...
5. More interviews- one from 11/14 at Marisa's Examiner Column, and a thorough one at Gothic Goddess
6. Saturday 11.14.2009 Die Maschinen's Shatter/Makita, Crimson Ivy, Cynical Mass, Crashfaster, DJs Stats and Neshamah, and MC Necromos at Annie's Social Club San Francisco
- a special evening to unify goth, old/new school industrial, DJ dancing, live music, Santa Cruz, San Jose, and San Francisco...
7. The Gothic / Industrial Event August 22, 2009 - Featuring Crimson Ivy, DJ Neshamah, Stan Kent (One Step Beyond), More - See Flyer! See the Press Release Here,
Here, Here, or Here...
8. New guitar player Draykh (pic on lower left)... this guy is amazing!
9. Here is a very thorough June 2009 interview by Natalie Perez and
her review of the upcoming album as well...
10. There was also a review of us in English and French...
11. 2009 album "Youarewho" released digital only for now... album cover on the right...
12. Press Release
4/24/2009...
13. Other reviews at Mookychick and Industrial.org...
14. Another interview...
15. 2009 Spanish review of our 1989 EP (now by invite only? blaaa)...
Bio Graph
Dreams of beautiful, colors, faces and feelings, absent the ritual that grew from needs into upward mobility vehicles and taught out
of the child until naked knees are ever slowly pressed on the asphalt in front of the steel and glass paper electricity king so as
not to awaken inner strength and diminish will to live morphed into addiction and behavior squeezed into a strange corner. Heavy
enough at least pondered.
In 1993, the band released Bloodlife, consisting of eight tracks examining relations amongst the silken dissimulation machine.
Since the Spiritual Vision album in 1988 and the Existence EP in 1989 (now collectors items), the melting vinyl of primary
musical influences had claimed a more individual ambiance, with the songwriting maturing. Youarewho takes this sound even
deeper into the root zone, and connoisseurs of industrial / gothic / dirge / electronic music will no doubt have their dendrites
exposed to the sonic cuttings this album Crimson Ivy propagates.
Crimson Ivy is an industrial / gothic / dirge / electronic / alternative / rock band born in San Jose, California in the 1980s,
thriving into the 1990s, and falling asleep until 2009. Now revived, shaken and stirred, they brew a unique dark roast of
techno, goth, metal and industrial java that stirs up a raw verve more common in rock bands like Prong or Motorhead.
"If Bloodlife was a bludgeoning with a blunt object from the inside of your thoughts, Youarewho is more like ice on a tooth
with an exposed root where a cavity has fallen out. Of course, with all Crimson Ivy albums, we'll give you the audio Novocaine
after a few songs- otherwise you wouldn't be able to hear us above the scream," gests Russ - or "Rusty Punkture Elder Sloth."
The themes are harsh and realist on this one, be warned. "...and yes, you're gonna hear some industrial AND some goth- because
we're still in the round dimension - more than one side." Russ rambles over the shoulder from within.
