CHIRON 🇦🇺 — Flesh & Blood
1st Rehearsal as a Trio: 2025
Bluestone Church Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺
Review by Infectious Unease Radio / Subterranean Zone Radio — Voice In The Void
Written by Gordon Lawrence Taylor
YouTube / Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCl2pIH4A_s&list=RDhCl2pIH4A_s&start_radio=1
Chiron are a Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 dark wave, gothic and avant-garde music project featuring Michael Aliani, Dino Molinaro, and Ivan Bullock. The band’s official website describes Chiron as a Melbourne dark wave, gothic and avant-garde project, with Michael, Dino and Ivan currently recording new material and rehearsing for future concerts.
“Flesh & Blood” may not be a conventional studio single, but that is part of its beauty — it feels intimate, immediate, and alive, capturing Chiron in a rare first-rehearsal moment as the trio find their shape together inside the reverberant body of Bluestone Church Arts Space.
This is Chiron in the room. Not hidden behind studio glass. Not polished until the atmosphere disappears. This is a living rehearsal document — direct, dark, physical, and full of presence. There is something powerful about hearing a band in this form, especially a band with Chiron’s history. You can feel the air around them. You can feel the old stone, the room echo, the weight of the bass, the slow burn of the guitar and electronics, and Michael Aliani’s voice moving through the space like something summoned rather than simply sung.
The YouTube description states that this was the first Chiron video featuring Michael, Dino and Ivan together, gathered “in the flesh” for their first ever rehearsal, jamming works they had recorded over the last few years in various home studios around Melbourne. It was recorded direct and unadulterated onto a Zoom LiveTrak L-8, which explains why the performance feels so honest and immediate.
That directness is exactly what gives “Flesh & Blood” its strength. It has the feel of musicians entering a room and allowing the song to breathe naturally. The track does not need excessive production tricks. It works because the atmosphere is already there. The church space gives the sound a natural gothic depth, but the performance itself carries the real weight.
The bass is deep, steady, and beautifully serious. Dino Molinaro’s playing gives the track its foundation, holding everything together with that dark post-punk weight that sits perfectly inside Chiron’s sound. It does not overplay. It anchors. It moves like black stone under the music.
Ivan Bullock’s guitar and electronics bring tension, texture, and atmosphere. The sound is not crowded. It has space. It opens and coils around the room, allowing the silence and echo to become part of the performance. There is a real restraint here, and that restraint gives the music power. Nothing feels thrown in for effect. Everything feels placed inside the shadow.
Then there is Michael Aliani’s voice. His voice on “Flesh & Blood” carries that same deep emotional character — dramatic, grave, human, and full of atmosphere. It does not sit above the music like decoration. It becomes part of the architecture.
There is something very fitting about the title “Flesh & Blood.” This performance feels physical. It feels human. It feels like a band returning to the body after years of separate recordings, home studios, distance, and gradual construction. Here, the music is no longer just files, ideas, parts, or fragments. It is three people in one room, making the sound live.
Chiron’s current trio format is important here because the performance feels like the beginning of a new live shape. The music has history behind it, but it does not sound trapped in the past. It sounds active. It sounds like something preparing to step forward.
The rehearsal carries dark wave and gothic atmosphere at its core, but there is also something heavier, rawer, and more physical moving underneath. You can hear the band finding its live force. The track has weight, patience, and mood. It does not rush itself. It allows the sound to gather slowly, creating that dark room feeling where every note seems to hang in the air a little longer.
The performance also points toward Chiron’s upcoming live activity, with ENZYME XX taking place on Saturday 13 June 2026 at 8pm at Mamma Chen’s, 42A Albert Street, Footscray VIC, with Chiron appearing alongside Blood in the Champagne and DevilMonkey. In that sense, this rehearsal feels like a signal before the live event — a glimpse of the band waking inside the room before stepping fully onto the stage.
What I like most about “Flesh & Blood” is that it does not feel fake. It does not feel like a promotional clip trying too hard to impress. It feels like a document of a real moment. A first rehearsal. A band listening to itself. A song finding its live skin. That kind of honesty is rare, and in gothic music it matters deeply, because atmosphere cannot be faked. You either have it or you do not.
Chiron have it.
The darkness here is not empty. It has memory. It has age. It has discipline. It has the feeling of Melbourne’s underground gothic history still breathing through new walls, old rooms, and musicians who understand that dark music is not just about sound — it is about presence, restraint, emotion, and shadow.
“Flesh & Blood” is a powerful rehearsal document from Chiron. It captures a band becoming physical again, not as nostalgia, but as living sound. There is beauty in its rawness, power in its restraint, and real gothic atmosphere in the way the music fills the room.
For listeners of dark wave, gothic music, post-punk atmosphere, experimental electronics, and underground Melbourne darkness, this is well worth hearing.
Chiron return here not as a museum piece, but as flesh, blood, echo, stone, and shadow.
Artist / Country Details
Chiron — Australia 🇦🇺 / Melbourne, Victoria 🇦🇺
Michael Aliani — Vocals, Lyrics & Electronics
Dino Molinaro — Electric Bass Guitar
Ivan Bullock — Electric Guitar & Electronics
Release / Video Details
Artist: Chiron 🇦🇺
Track / Video: Flesh & Blood – 1st Rehearsal as a Trio: 2025
Location: Bluestone Church Arts Space, Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺
Style: Dark Wave / Gothic / Avant-Garde / Post-Punk Atmosphere / Dark Electronics
Recording: Direct and unadulterated onto Zoom LiveTrak L-8
Upcoming Live Performance: ENZYME XX — Saturday 13 June 2026, 8pm, Mamma Chen’s, Footscray VIC
Official / Useful Links
Chiron Official Website:
http://www.chironmusic.com.au
Chiron Biography:
https://chironmusic.com.au/?page_id=7
Chiron Discography:
https://chironmusic.com.au/?page_id=272
Chiron Contact Page:
https://chironmusic.com.au/?page_id=212
Chiron Reviews & Press:
https://chironmusic.com.au/?page_id=313
Chiron YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@chirongothic
Chiron — Flesh & Blood – 1st Rehearsal as a Trio: 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCl2pIH4A_s&list=RDhCl2pIH4A_s&start_radio=1
Chiron Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/chiron.music/
Chiron Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/chirongothic
Chiron Bandcamp:
https://chirongothic.bandcamp.com
Chiron Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7iX82W5NB6Vj0bsUO7IBhU
Chiron Last.fm:
https://www.last.fm/music/Chiron
ENZYME XX Facebook Event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/990672530195054/
ENZYME XX — Resident Advisor Event Page:
https://ra.co/events/2435943