Ian Read (musician)

Fire & Ice is an English neofolk band founded in 1991 by frontman Ian Read.

Ian Read is one next to the emerged from the separation of the band Death in June Sol Invictus with the founding figures of neofolk. His interest in Odinism / Norse mythology / paganism and magic / Esoteric / Occult and runes, the Medieval and Renaissance led inter alia to his membership in the pagan group " Illuminates of Thanateros " (IOT ) and the Rune Guild of Edred Thorsson, the pseudonym of the American writer Stephen Flowers, where he even rose to chairman of the " Rune Gild UK". These interests are reflected in his music.

Read participated among others already on albums like " Swastikas for Noddy " (1988) Current 93 and " Brown Book " by Death in June. A little later he participated in Sol Invictus and founded after his separation from this formation in 1990 in the following year, the band Fire & Ice and his own label, strangeness, in almost all releases of the band appeared. The debut was released in 1992 on the label New European Recordings of Douglas Pearce ( Death in June ). Since the last Fire & Ice publication " Bird King " (2000), it has become quiet around Ian Read. As a singer could still be him, inter alia, on the LP " Earth" by Forseti, the single " Dygel " sun Hagal and the album " Wampyricon " of the gothic rock project Wampyre Shadow Wolf by Magus Wampyr Daoloth hear.

Contributors to albums by Fire & Ice were, inter alia, Simon Norris, Michael Cashmore, Michael Moynihan and Annabel Lee ( Blood Axis in both ), Joseph Bude Holzer, Joolie Wood, Matthew Butler and Freya Aswynn.

Both Ian Read, as well as the band project are being criticized to move at the right edge of the neo-folk scene.

Its objective describes Read the " Code 5" ( May 1994 p.18) as follows: "I am interested in building a spider web -like network of higher standing people across the planet, people who might not know each other, but to of the mesh are aware and are able to effect change. These changes are perhaps not always for the better, but they could result in an interesting world. "

In an interview with the fanzine " sigil " (No. 8) explains Read, when he is asked about " fascist and racist ideas ": No idea is completely worthless. The Germans had a huge complex, which had been them, frankly, inoculated from a post-war brainwashing. (...) German magician should really by the opinions about what is "correct" and what is not (...), who imposed them the people free. I offer the following as food for thought on: the concentration camp KL should probably be shortened, however, resulted in a concentration camp because the Z it made ​​it sound much more terrible ... "

Discography

  • CD Gilded By The Sun (1992 )
  • CD Single Blood On The Snow ( 1993)
  • CD Hollow Ways ( 1994, republished 2006 )
  • Live CD with Charlie MacGowan California Daze (1994 )
  • CD Midwinter Fires (1995 )
  • Runa CD (1996 )
  • 7 " Reyn Again ( 1996)
  • CD Seasons Of Ice (1998)
  • Compilation CD The Pact: Flying In The Face ... (2000)
  • Compilation CD The Pact: ... Of The Gods (2000)
  • CD Bird King (2000)
  • Split 7 " with Death in June We Said Destroy ( 2000)
  • Compilation CD Tyr II ( 2004)
  • CD & LP Fractured Man ( 2012)
Sol Invictus (Band) Magic (paranormal) Esotericism Sonne Hagal Michael Moynihan (journalist) Annabel Lee (musician)
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