Chiron return with ‘A Dark Beauty’, out 17 July on Dark Vinyl Records
Melbourne darkwave act Chiron release the album “A Dark Beauty” on 17 July 2026 through Dark Vinyl Records, a 13-track set with four remixes and a guest vocal.
Chiron
Melbourne darkwave act Chiron release their new album “A Dark Beauty” on 17 July 2026 through Germany’s Dark Vinyl Records. The label handles the European CD and digital edition, while the band issues the record on their own Bandcamp as a 24-bit download, CD and vinyl. It is the follow-up to 2022’s “The Sun Goes Down”, also on Dark Vinyl.
“A Dark Beauty” runs to 13 tracks: nine songs followed by four remixes. The band mixes darkwave with gothic-rock and modern-metal elements, built on driving basslines, downtuned guitar and electronics under Michael Aliani’s vocals. The set opens with the title track and moves through “Flesh and Blood”, “The Hunted” and the closer “Oblivion”, which features guest vocals from Yvette Winkler of the Dutch act Vaselyne. The remix section reworks four of the songs, with versions by Paradox Obscura, Imbibe, SIRUS and Mansfield Mourning. Ernie Oppenheimer mixed, produced and mastered the album at his studio in Melbourne.
The album continues a run of releases the band has placed through Dark Vinyl Records, the German independent label that also reissued material by Chiron’s parent act Ikon. Side-Line previously covered the last Chiron album in Post-punk act Chiron (ex-Ikon) to release all new album in January: ‘The Sun Goes Down’.
About Chiron
Chiron formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1997, founded by vocalist Michael Aliani after he left the Australian darkwave band Ikon. The project debuted with “Eve” in 1999 on the Italian label Energeia, and followed it with “Slipping Away” (2005, Apollyon Records), the “Breaking Point” EP (2009) and the album “We Own the Night” (2015), which leaned further into electronics. A compilation, “Chiron: The Best Of”, appeared on Brazil’s Wave Records the same year.
The band’s 2022 album “The Sun Goes Down” marked its move to Dark Vinyl Records and brought founding Ikon bassist Dino Molinaro back into the lineup. For “A Dark Beauty”, the band worked as a trio of Aliani on vocals and electronics, Molinaro on bass and Ivan Bullock on guitar and electronics, with Ernie Oppenheimer contributing production, electronics, drums and backing vocals. The new album extends the darker, guitar-forward direction the band set on its previous release.
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