We are a noiserock/punkrock/hardcore band playing what we
want and how we want.
No flash, no gimmicks - just fucking up your ears one show
at a time.
We are loud. We are heavy. We are vicious.
Biography:
(pronounced /ˈænaɪən/; an-eye-on), from the Greek
word ἀνά (ana), meaning
'up', is an ion with more electrons than protons, giving it a net negative
charge (since electrons are negatively charged and protons are positively
charged).
Anion was formed in 2010 in a diesel soaked dungeon with one
purpose - to create the music that it's members wanted to hear. No scene
points, no genre devotion - just a desire to create devastatingly heavy and
angular music. Riff driven and intense, the music is hard to pin down but has an
underlying foundation of noise rock with healthy doses of sludge and hardcore
mixed in.
Anion's live shows are something not soon forgotten, having
played Western Canada with the likes of Mares of Thrace, Golers, Galgamex,
Burning Ghats and The Villain Avian Symphony. A full Canadian tour is being
planned for the fall with some of Canada's finest heavy bands.
With a 7" and a handcrafted cassette under their belts,
the future holds 2 split 7"s - one with Canadian metal kings Wake and the
other with local death metal prodigies Galgamex. A full length 12" has
begun taking root as well with it's recording to begin winter 2011.
Press:
Here's what a few notable publications/websites have had to
say:
"Their noisy, angry, sludgy, pound-yer-face-in brand of
aggression is best heard on the hissy 1980 sound of a cassette tape or on the
warm and sweaty sound of vinyl." - Terrorizer
"Another local band to keep an eye on, Vancouver’s
Anion have dropped a punishing slab of hardcore in the way of their Carrion
King seven-inch. Four songs striking a balance between stabby hardcore and
slow-drain sludge, Carrion King is the perfect primer to the band and their
vitriolic brand of sludgecore. A promising beginning for a band poised to do
great things." – Hellbound.ca
"And this is some riffy hardcore, almost a crossover of
stoner metal and sludgy doom shit."
The Skinny Magazine