Gothwave Halloween
October, 28 - "Live Stars" Club

TICKETS (DANCEFLOOR): https://vk.cc/cqkoUo
TICKETS V.I.P.-ZONE: https://vk.cc/cqkpay

A new date, friends! ✨

On October 28, the Live Stars Club will host a traditional nighttime GOTHWAVE HELLOWEEN party, where we will take part together with the bands RAVEN SAID, Deathhawk, GIANT WAVES and PORCHA!

"Shock and awe awaits those who came to the capital's Live Stars club on October 28: The Real Goth Halloween. All according to the traditions of the good old Batcave, according to the precepts of Julia Wisdom, Johnny Slat and Peter Murphy. Bats, cobwebs, an atmosphere of decadence and creative freedom. You are waiting for the performances of bands, from goth punk to darkwave on the main stage of the club and all night until dawn, goth hits on the DJ stage. Add a pinch of darkness and conquer the dance floor."

Link to the event: https://vk.com/gothwave_halloween2023

A piece of our performance at the Kinky Rouge Club on Wave'n'Goth!

Wave 'n' Goth • August 4th • Moscow
Dark Friday invites you to spend a wave/gothic evening in the company of The Guests (goth rock, post-punk) and IX reflections (darkwave, synth goth).
Start at 20:00
Kinky Rouge Club
Malaya Yakimanka, 24, m. Polyanka
Entrance 500 RUR

Photo report from DARK SUMMER III • SPb • 07/11/23 is already in the gallery!

Less than a week is left before our meeting in St. Petersburg at DARK SUMMER III on July 1!

Our last visit left a lot of wonderful memories and vivid impressions, so we are looking forward to returning to the rock capital of our homeland!

This time we will see off the White nights with the following intriguing line-up:

The Guests show the listener their vision of Gothic rock and post-punk, elegantly seasoned with electronics and elements from other genres of the dark scene. Elegant Gothic rockers follow the traditions of the 80s and successfully fuse together the old school and modern approaches to music, despite the trends of fashion and the passage of time.

METZGER skillfully dilutes the sounds of an analog synthesizer with guitar melodies and live piano samples. Sometimes the compositions turn into dancing, but these dances are only with tears in their eyes. All the songs are written in German, which is dearly loved in dark circles, and each line is a personal tragedy.

IX reflections use old analog synthesizers, playing darkwave with echoes of synthpop, classical electronic music, post-punk, goth rock and new wave. The intriguing freshness of the XXI century and daring authenticity, restraint and external equanimity, mystery and enticing sensuality.

Less than a week is left before our meeting in St. Petersburg at DARK SUMMER III on July 1!

Our last visit left a lot of wonderful memories and vivid impressions, so we are looking forward to returning to the rock capital of our homeland!

This time we will see off the White nights with the following intriguing line-up:

The Guests show the listener their vision of Gothic rock and post-punk, elegantly seasoned with electronics and elements from other genres of the dark scene. Elegant Gothic rockers follow the traditions of the 80s and successfully fuse together the old school and modern approaches to music, despite the trends of fashion and the passage of time.

METZGER skillfully dilutes the sounds of an analog synthesizer with guitar melodies and live piano samples. Sometimes the compositions turn into dancing, but these dances are only with tears in their eyes. All the songs are written in German, which is dearly loved in dark circles, and each line is a personal tragedy.

IX reflections use old analog synthesizers, playing darkwave with echoes of synthpop, classical electronic music, post-punk, goth rock and new wave. The intriguing freshness of the XXI century and daring authenticity, restraint and external equanimity, mystery and enticing sensuality.

A little more, and the walls of the Live Story club would not have withstood the onslaught of the performing bands, the number of guests and the energy that swirled around the hall and sparkled in the air! The small gothic concert left behind a feeling of a great holiday!
Many thanks to Ian, all the bands and all the guests of the second day of RUSSIAN GOTHIC FEST for the opportunity to plunge into this unforgettable, mystical, terribly gothic, but damn "homey", friendly and cozy atmosphere!

See you this Saturday at RUSSIAN GOTHIC FEST! Drop everything and hurry to the cozy Live Story club, which on the evening of June 10 will become a center of dark romance and gloomy charm!

Line-up and schedule:

17:30 Clubs opening
18-00 Beginning
18:00-18:40 NIGHTSTORY
18:50-19:30 Vesssna
19:40-20:20 SiALIA
20:30-21:10 IX reflections
21:20-22:05 ROSE OF STEEL
22:15:23:00 FREAKY MIND

Tickets:
https://gothic-coven.timepad.ru/event/2345317

Schedule update! Two new gigs coming up this summer!

June, 10 2023 - Moscow - Russian Gothic Fest (Live Story)

July, 01 2023 - Saint Petersburg - DARK SUMMER (Zoccolo 2.0)

On March 25, we will take the stage again with TURBO CHTHONIC and ERSTKISS at the Moscow presentation of the new TURBO CHTHONIC album "Axios"! The event will be held at the Alibi Club at 19:00. Follow the news!

We are waiting for you today at the PRAVDA club!

- Pre-sale is closed, tickets are available for sale at the entrance!
- Opening at 23:59
- It is not necessary to print out an electronic ticket, it can be shown on the screen of your phone!

Friends, sudden news!
TOMORROW (11.02) we will play at GOTHWAVE festival at the PRAVDA club with TOURMALINE BATS (Chelyabinsk). The concert starts at 23:55.

DANCEFLOOR tickets: https://vk.cc/ciD3iK
V.I.P. tickets: https://vk.cc/ciD3ew

Got a chance to share the stage with TURBO CHTHONIC at Red Gates, Moscow!

Many thanks to everyone who celebrated the 10th anniversary of OMNIMAR with us on September 2! Once again, we congratulate the guys on their anniversary and wish them a long, eventful and exciting creative journey! Thank you for a great evening! The plan for meeting old friends and making new acquaintances is 100% fulfilled

See you all tomorrow in LIVE STARS at OMNIMAR 10 years' anniversary show!

On September, 2 we'll be taking part in the celebration of OMNIMAR 10 years' anniversary as special guests! Looking forward to seeing all of you, guys, again on the first week of September!

We now have a page on Boosty where it is possible to purchase merch through one-time payments! The shipping cost is included in the lot price. The page is currently working in test mode, but in theory, it should accept foreign payments without any problems. Please use this page if you want to purchase our band's merch, as the store on Bandcamp temporarily does not accept payment to our PayPal account. You can also support us by signing up for a free or paid subscription.

boosty.to/ixreflections

Only 2 weeks left till the European premiere of the feature film "Dreamover" by Roman Olkhovka in the French city of Locronan! The movie features our song "Fade in the Dark" and we are super excited! :)

So many plans for the summer, how would you manage everything? Especially when everything around you creates the right atmosphere for rest, and every grain of creative work comes out through torment and tears... :)

With all the turmoil going on in our troubled world right now, we didn't notice at all that this March our album "Fragile Border" turned one year old! This album was our first major achievement as a band and we hope that this is just a starting point for future achievements. The album was warmly received by fans of the dark scene around the world, gave us a new interesting experience in many areas and allowed us to meet a lot of wonderful people. It's just a pity that it was not possible to arrange a full-fledged tour in support of him - first because of the pandemic, and then because of even sadder circumstances. We hope that sooner or later everything will go back to normal and we will visit every city in the world where we are waited for with concerts!

Dear friends!

Due to the well-known tragic events taking place at the moment, we are unable to accept payment and sell music and merch here on Bandcamp, as we too have been sanctioned, like all individuals and legal entities on the territory of the Russian Federation, and our PayPal account has been (temporarily?) blocked.

At the moment we are looking for alternative payment methods to fully share our creativity with everyone who likes it. We hope that the situation will be resolved after a while, and all our friends and fans will again have the opportunity to freely have access to our content and music.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused, we wish everyone a peaceful sky over their heads, confidence in the future and kindness, which is now so lacking in the world.
Take care! And thank you for being with us!

With love, your IX reflections.

The feature film "Dreamover" by Roman Olkhovka, featuring our song "Fade in the Dark" took the award of the Scorpius Film Festival, Utah, in the nomination "Best Score"! As well as "Best Feature", "Best Actress" and "Best Cinematography"!
Congratulations to Roman and the whole crew!

Click HERE to see 2022 Scorpiusfest Awards Ceremony.

The GOTHWAVE festival was amazing! Many thanks to the bands and the audience, who made this night unforgettable, and to Ivan (DJ Fallen), who brought us all together!

IX reflections is on the 2nd place in "Top-10 electronic goth releases of 2021" from SYNTHEMA.RU online magazine!
Click HERE to see the article (in Russian).

We have promised to see all of you in 2022 and we keep our word!
We invite you to our first gig in 2022 at GOTHWAVE festival that will take place on January, 22 in LIVE STARS club, Moscow, Russia!

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Dear friends! As promised, our performance, postponed from October, 30 due to a lockdown week in Moscow, will take place on January, 22 in the LIVE STARS club in Moscow as part of GOTHWAVE anniversary party! See you soon in the new year!

N.B.: If you have tickets for the October, 30 GOTHWAVE Halloween Party, they will be accepted on January, 22! You do not need to change them!

!!! IMPORTANT UPDATE !!!
Unfortunately, due to a new round of restrictive measures against COVID-19, it will not be possible to hold GOTHWAVE HALLOWEEN on October, 30th!

But only this particular date is compromised. The event itself has not been canceled - the concert is postponed to January, 22, 2022. The venue remains the same - "LIVE STARS" club. We will definitely arrange and celebrate the event as planned and even better!

N.B.: Keep all previously purchased tickets, they will be valid on January, 22!

So the FUNERAL DANCES festival, bringing together several generations of dark romantics in "BUNKER 47" club, is over!

Many thanks to everyone who managed to attend the event in these turbulent times, and, of course, to the bands Portvain, SAD and Elektro Terapi!
We were very happy to meet a whole bunch of new wonderful people and see our old friends again!

It's definitely worth repeating!

Good news! One more show is now on our schedule in October! GOTHWAVE HALLOWEEN will bring you no less than 6 HOURS of live darkwave, coldwave, postpunk, goth-rock and death-rock! The event will take place on October, 30, 23:30 in "LIVE STARS" club, Moscow, Russia, and features IX reflections (darkwave/synth), This Eternal Decay (darkwave/industrial, Italy), Giant Waves (postpunk/darkwave), Raven Said (goth-rock/occult wave), Deathhawk (death-rock/goth-punk).

And finally here comes the long-awaited limited batch of our album "Fragile Border" from SURROGATE.REC (Ukraine) on audio cassettes!
An excellent addition to the collection for hardcore music lovers and fans of analog sound, or just a cool souvenir to keep on a shelf!

The tapes are now available in our MERCH section.

Autumn has come, the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting darker. And closer to night , along with the autumn mood , the dark underground of Moscow also wakes up!
On October 15, 4 bands representing the "new wave" of the Russian electronic dark scene will gather at the FUNERAL DANCES festival in the "BUNKER 47" club:

IX reflections - the revived sound of 80's synthesizers, a new wave of Gothic, which, as always, is undead;

ELEKTRO TERAPI - that's how dark dance music should sound in 2021;

Portvain - shocking eurodance and dark electro, touching upon social and household topics;

SAD - synthwave about a drop of hope in the ocean of the world's hopelessness.

Tickets: https://vk.cc/c5q9gY

Thanks a lot, DARK BEAUTY Online Festival! It was AMAZING!
If you didn't have a chance to see the stream live, the full recorded show is available HERE! (VK.com)

✨DON'T MISS IT!✨

DARK BEAUTY Online Festival will start today at 19:00 Moscow time! The only broadcast during which, in addition to our performance, you will be able to see 14 top representatives of the modern dark scene!

On Saturday, August 21, we will take part in the DARK BEAUTY Online Festival, where we will present previously unpublished videos of our performances along with such musicians as Clan of Xymox, Molchat Doma, The Lord of the Lost, Ash Code, Freakangel, Biopsyhoz, Gleb Samoilov & The Matrixx, Dance My Darling, and many others, with the total of 2,5 hours of exclusive previously unpublished live and studio videos! Stay tuned!

Another piece of good news for our devoted fans and music collectors! A bunch of CDs and audio cassettes from SURROGATE.REC (Ukraine) is on the way! This will be a limited run of 50 copies, so don't miss your chance when they spring up in our MERCH section!

"Fragile Border" CDs printed in Saint Petersburg are now in stock in the MERCH section, featuring a 12-page booklet with song arts by Diana "MESH" Trofimova! Check it out and make an order HERE!

It took us a while to escape from the affectionate but strong embrace of the Northern Capital, but now we found a minute to say thank you to St. Petersburg for the warm welcome and a great concert! Thanks to the DARK SUMMER 2021 festival and especially to the curator Daria, as well as the band THE GUESTS and THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY! We hope to meet on the same stage more than once!

Less than a week left until DARK SUMMER 2021! In just three days, IX REFLECTIONS, THE GUESTS and THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY will appear on the stage of "Zoccolo 2.0" club in St. Petersburg!

The "Fragile Border" CDs have been put into production!
Within a couple of weeks, CDs with a 12-page booklet will appear in the MERCH section! And the first copies will be presented at the DARK SUMMER 2021 festival in St. Petersburg on June, 12!

Unbelievably fantastic news! The feature film "DREAMOVER", the soundtrack of which includes our song "Fade in the Dark", has been included in the program of the 24th SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, where its Asian premiere will take place! The festival that will be held from June 11 to June 20 this year, is one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world and the most significant one in China.

We wish good luck to director Roman Olkhovka and everyone who had a hand in creating the motion picture! Thank you for the opportunity to become a part of something big and beautiful ☺

"Even if you don't like retro minimalism, fairy tales, never dreamed of waking up a Sleeping Beauty with a kiss and you don't care about sound perfectionism and physical media, you can hardly resist the detached charm of a beautiful stranger named Joe. We all love such quests since childhood and plunge into them in adulthood like in a wonderful journey into the world of miracles."

(Alexey "Astarte Eel" Irineev, Outpost of music analytics ASTARTA/2021)


Read the full review (in Russian) HERE or check our PRESS section for the English version of the article.

The songs from our album "Fragile Border" are now in rotation or RADIO EQUILIBRIUM!
http://eq-port.com/

A substantial English-language interview with IX reflections was published on a worldwide darkwave/post-punk portal WHITELIGHT-WHITEHEAT.COM!
Fabrizio Lusso has a conversation with the members of the band about their musical roots, sources of inspiration, the special sound of the band and, of course, about the new album "Fragile Border".

READ the interview on whitelight-whiteheat.com

This summer we've got the opportunity to bring our show to St. Petersburg — and this is great news, because who, if not the inhabitants of the Foggy Albion of our homeland, knows how to appreciate the viscous gloomy atmosphere of electronic music!
As part of the DARK SUMMER festival, which will take place on June, 12 at the "Zoccolo 2.0" club, you will be able to see three representatives of the Moscow "dark scene" live at once: IX REFLECTIONS, THE GUESTS and THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY!

"On "Fragile Border" everything is demonstratively fragile and unreal: you touch it, you look a little closer than usual, you turn around carelessly - it's ready to crumble, shake and disappear forever, as if it had never been there."

A fresh review on "Fragile Border" from SPIRIT OF ROCK online magazine!

Read the full review (in Russian) HERE or check our PRESS section for the English version of the article.

The evening ceases to be languid! Our music video for the song "New Man's Born" appeared in the MUZRAZBORKI video stream on RADIO VIDNOE (Russia).
Stock up on popcorn/chips/pizza/beer/[insert option]. In total, there are 5 music videos by different bands in the review, the analysis of our video begins at 00:29:26.

Our album "FRAGILE BORDER" is now available for pre-order on iTunes and BandCamp!

Pre-order now on iTunes!

Pre-order now on BandCamp!

The upcoming full-length album will be called
"FRAGILE BORDER".
It will be released on all online platforms on March, 5th! The release will be available on physical media a bit later.

The tracklist includes the following songs:
1) Reflection
2) Stones in the Well
3) Follow Your Tracks
4) New Man's Born
5) Kangastus
6) Too Late to Flee
7) Never Part
8) Sleeping Beauty
9) Fade in the Dark
10) Leaving

So, friends, centuries have passed, the stars have converged, the prophecy has come true -
the mixing of the ALBUM is complete!
Within a week we will publish the release date and
other details!

Finally, the MERCH section got T-shirts!
The batch is still trial and small, so hurry up to grab one!
Available sizes: S, M, L, XL.

New Year's miracles! We've accidentally found out that the track from our collection of remixes "Dreamlike Ailment", hit the top of the week at the big foreign darkwave/synth/goth portal
WHITELIGHT-WHITEHEAT.COM

Dear friends! We congratulate everyone on the long-awaited year 2021 and wish that it does not bring us any surprises, except for pleasant ones, and we all stay safe, healthy and full of energy for new achievements!
There will be interesting updates and news in the nearest future, so stay tuned and thank you for being with us!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

IX reflections - New Man's Born (Official Music Video)
OUT NOW!!!

Good news! Already this Friday, the premiere of the video for the song "New Man's Born" from our single "Sleeping Beauty" will take place!

The freshly-pressed "DREAMLIKE AILMENT" CDs are now available in the MERCH section!

The "DREAMLIKE AILMENT" remix compilation is
OUT NOW!!!
The following projects and performers took part in its creation: Avercage, Sol8, Substance Commander, GVZZ,
KVRLTVN, Melifaro, Alexander Chernov.
The compilation is available in all online music stores and services.
You can support the band directly by buying the songs from our BANDCAMP STORE.

The release of the "DREAMLIKE AILMENT" remixes compilation is scheduled for August 28!
The digital version will contain 8 remixes from local performers and representatives of the Moscow underground scene.

While the album is in its mixing stage, we decided to entertain you with another RELEASE, which will take place in August!
This time it will be a collection of remixes of our songs from other artists and local electronic bands.
Stay tuned!

Sooner or later, one way or another, it was meant to happen! After several years of uncertainty and tedious (for us as well) waiting, we can finally announce -
the FULL LENGTH ALBUM of the band will be released THIS FALL!

Throughout the existence of the band, we often received questions about the band itself, about its name, the "ideological" component of the music, etc. And finally, we got the opportunity to "lift the veil" a little and talk about various topics in the interview format!

Many thanks to the portal of
Goth Radio GIB-FM for the opportunity!

You can read the Russian version of the interview HERE or check out our PRESS section for the English translation.

An awesome update in the MERCH section!
Our earlier singles "Sleeping Beauty" and "Fade in the Dark" are now available on CDs!
Click HERE for details.

Only 5 cassettes left in stock!
The tapes are available HERE.

Fridays are perfect for good news!
For particularly sophisticated listeners, we have prepared a limited edition of "Fade in the Dark" on audio cassettes! The tapes are available HERE.
There are only 20 in stock, so hurry up to get one!

Our new single "Fade in the Dark" is out now
and available on all streaming platforms!
Check it out on Bandcamp:
Fade in the Dark (Single) (2019)

Just 1 week left till the release of our new single
"Fade in the Dark"!
Cover art by Emy Wolfe.