IAMX Announces Mini-Album Release and Tour

As the title Everything Is Burning (Metanoia Addendum) suggests, the copious output by the cofounder of ‘90s trip-hop sensation Sneaker Pimps is fuelled by a transformative awakening. Originally from the UK where he formed Sneaker Pimps with Liam Howe, After the band’s breakup in 2005, Chris Corner spent several years in Berlin, before settling in Los Angeles in 2013. Toward the end of his time in Europe, after having released five IAMX albums Corner spent so much energy wrestling his demons, he almost quit music. "It was a combination of despair and depression and insomnia, and it was very difficult," he says, "It took me a long time to get through it, but I learned a lot about myself, and I developed a new set of mental tools that allowed me to survive.” In 2015 he released Metanoia.

On IAMX’s latest album, Everything is Burning (Metanoia Addendum), the lush darkness from 2015’s Metanoia LP gets reworked by synth-pop luminary Gary Numan and international, cross-genre producers including Mr.Kitty, Marat Sad, Aesthetic Perfection, and Future Funk Squad whose remix credits include fellow heavyweights Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy. Everything Is Burning (Metanoia Addendum) adds gravitas to the electronic music scene and provides a voyeuristic peek into IAMX’s upcoming minisolo album and remix collection, and its accompanying tour.

On Part One of Everything Is Burning (Metanoia Addendum), the new double digital EP by IAMX, the seven wonderful new song titles and lyrics, as well as the production are brooding and intimate. Songs like “Triggers”, “Scars”, and “The Void” lay bare IAMX’s raw psyche as the machines throb and pound amidst Corner’s mercurial and otherworldly voice which shape-shifts from whisper to scream sometimes within a single phrase.

On Part Two – a bonus: the remixes, Gary Numan brings a haunting elegance to “Happiness”. Future Funk Squad unleashes the blistering energy in “North Star”. Marat Sad (Sam Lockwood of The Jezabels) heightens the melancholy catharsis in “Look Outside”, which pinpoints IAMX’s pivot away from his demons. Mr.Kitty kicks up the big-room bounce for his take on “North Star”. Depeche Mode’s Christian Eigner and his partner Niko Stoessl flip “Oh Cruel Darkness Embrace Me” into a soul-churning battle cry on their SlikNik/CE mix, while Aesthetic Perfection amp its primal scream to stadium-level raucousness.

Check “The Void”, a first track to discover the new album: here https://youtu.be/_QgiFWFD7Fc

This is what Chris said about it:

The Void represents the end of an era. The completion of my own personal transformation after a 2 year battle with depression and chronic insomnia. It's an addendum to the album Metanoia. The video is a fusion or a mashup of all the IAMX videos during this period. Some shot and directed by me, some by others. I see it as a celebration of my own private victory, my new found inner strength and also a symbol to my audience or anybody searching that life is extraordinary and happiness is conquerable.

I've spent years putting together abstract visuals for our multimedia stage shows so I felt the video could also reflect this. There is no mind numbingly banal narrative, just a throbbing collage of transient images. The way my reality is and the way I love it .