I/CON is the album, released in 2007 under the flag of Autarkeia. It is one more promenade through the darker side of human, non dividably linked with religion by power electronics artist from USA Michael Page. The album (in becoming a standard of Autarkeia golden CD) lasts for 45 minutes and is packed in nice, gray digipack with messiah or disease, or cursed one, whatever, I mean Jesus, on the cover. Inside of digipack - the nun with blood, running from her eyes, sitting in the bed. And here the grotesque, brought by F/I/T/H begins. From the very first minute - it is powerful and brutal charge, detonating explosives of hate straight to the ears and brains. It would be very interesting to read the lyrics of the album, but there are none and one needs to try to catch fragments of vocal of Michael Page under heavy effects in order to understand some words. Anyways, there are places where vocal is clearly heard through all the noise. The sound of album - "hard" and strict. Somehow the word "diamond" sits on the edge of a tongue. Sharp and cutting almost through the whole album. Songs varies from conditionally calm pieces with drone'ish elements to outbursts of aggression, to complete impassable dismal. Together with the constantly changing effects on vocal, this conditional change of mood creates one "piercing through" state. I don't think there is a need to write about all the pieces separately - each and every of them is in one's own way interesting and different, with huge amount of sound layers and the same sick and dark mood. Despite these and the fact, that there is almost no rhythm in the album, apart from few pulsating drone'ish/noise'ish sounds, this is no chaos. The overall sound does not irritate or dispel. Sometimes during this album I'm catching myself straying from analyzing words or sounds, somewhere deeper. To take a walk through my thoughts or simply buoy in thoughtless space, by that opening the path for Fire In The Head to fire his intentions straight to the head and unconscious mind and letting him do with me whatever he wants. And still... I'm cutting and cutting the title of the album. I/CON - I CONtrol ? Through ICON? Let it be my nonsense talking without any base, but by this album, the feeling is just that. I simply could not review this album clearly soundwise or technically - it is something else. Those who have heard it, will understand, for the others - there is no need to try to describe. Well, how could you describe "bitterness" to the person who does not understand it. By biological processes? No, I'm not doing that.

Format: CD
Released: 2007
Label: Autarkeia
Edition: 500