Insofar as Fire and Ice’s music can be described as “folk” it is the folk music of the ancient skalds and scops, far antecedent to the recent folk revival even if elements of tradition are latently present in that revival. Insofar as it is “gothic” music it is so in the sense described by Edred Thorsson in “The Secret of the Gothick God of Darkness” – Read more …
The number of those who are interested in neofolk music seems to be small, but growing. As the genre is an homage to the European heritage and makes use of European themes, and favors quality above quantity, it should be of great interest to many. Read more …
Um interregnum é um tempo de máxima possibilidade. Aprumados como estamos entre o fim da velha cultura europeia e a possibilidade de uma nova e renascida cultura europeia é útil refletir um pouco sobre a direção que nossa nova cultura deve tomar. Read more …
Un interrègne est une époque de possibilité ultime. Positionnés comme nous le sommes entre la fin de l’ancienne culture européenne et la possibilité d’une nouvelle culture européenne renaissante, il est utile de réfléchir quelque peu à la direction que notre nouvelle culture devrait prendre. Read more …
An interregnum is a time of ultimate possibility. Poised as we are between the end of the old European culture and the possibility of a new, reborn, European culture it is useful to give some thought to the direction that our new culture should take. Read more …
Through the 1990s, Ian Read’s band Fire & Ice articulated perhaps the clearest expression of pagan European sensibility yet achieved in musical form. Over the course of six albums, a dark Traditionalist view of Europe as a place of magical lore and warrior values emerged. Read more …
Death in June emerged from the English post-punk scene of the early 1980s. Death in June was originally a trio, but two of the founding members left in 1984 and 1985, so now the group consists of Douglas Pearce along with a shifting set of collaborators. Pearce, now 54, currently lives in Australia.
Fire & Ice’s Fractured Man
Insofar as Fire and Ice’s music can be described as “folk” it is the folk music of the ancient skalds and scops, far antecedent to the recent folk revival even if elements of tradition are latently present in that revival. Insofar as it is “gothic” music it is so in the sense described by Edred Thorsson in “The Secret of the Gothick God of Darkness” – Read more …