Ice Age (band)
| Ice Age | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Gothenburg , Sweden |
| Genre (s) | Thrash metal |
| founding | 1985 as Rock Solid, 2014 |
| resolution | 1990 |
| Website | http://www.ice-age.se/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Sabrina Kihlstrand | |
| Viktoria "Vicky" Larsson | |
| André Holmqvist | |
Electric guitar |
Linnea Landstedt |
| former members | |
Electric bass |
Johanna Holmstedt |
Electric bass |
Helena Kihlstrand |
Drums |
Tina Strömberg |
Electric guitar |
Pia Nyström |
Electric guitar |
Isabella Fronzoni |
singing |
Debbie Gunn |
Electric guitar |
Mio hunters |
Electric bass |
Tammi Chiavarini |
Ice Age is a Swedish thrash metal band from Gothenburg , which was founded in 1985 under the name Rock Solid , disbanded in 1990 and has been active again since 2014. They are one of the few metal bands that have had an entirely female line-up for much of their career.
history
The band was founded in January 1985 after Sabrina Kihlstrand (vocals, electric guitar) and Pia Nyström (electric guitar) met in a music store. The line-up was supplemented by Sabrina's sister Helena on bass and the drummer Tina Strömberg. The group initially called itself Rock Solid and was the first to release a self-titled demo . Then the band changed their name to Ice Age. After the demo appeared, Helena Kihlstrand left the cast and was replaced in October 1986 by Viktoria "Vicky" Larsson. Next, the demo General Alert appeared in May 1987 , followed by another, untitled one the following year. The band played in different countries and was at different festivals, such as the Open Air Lamone in Switzerland . The group was also seen at the Marquee Club in London . In 1989 the next demo followed with Instant Justice , of which around 1,200 copies were sold. In December of the same year, a small tour of Great Britain had to be canceled because Tina Strömberg had previously broken her jaw in an argument outside a Gothenburg nightclub. Kim Fowley became aware of the group through the demo and became its manager. Since he concentrated more on the appearance than on the music for the members' feelings, they switched to Dave Maile. This was followed by a short tour with Candlemass . After that the group held a tour of Europe and was featured in Kerrang and Metal Hammer magazines . Ice Age performed together with Defender in the Netherlands . During this 1989 tour Sabrina Kihlstrand left the band due to problems with the management. Three months later, the Italian Isabella Fronzoni on the electric guitar and the American Debbie Gunn as the singer joined them as a replacement . Larsson left Ice Age as well, but rejoined the band a short time later. A music video was recorded which was shown at the Headbangers Ball on MTV . This was followed by another tour of Europe, which began in Great Britain and then continued in the Netherlands and Denmark . Due to problems within the band and other management problems, two thirds of the band had left the line-up at the end of 1989. The previous occupation thus only lasted for six months. After the Swede Johanna Holmstedt had briefly taken over the bass, the American Tammi Chiavarini took this position in January 1990. Fronzoni was replaced by Lisa Decovolo from New Jersey . Although the band was already under contract with AVM Records and the group had already written song material for three albums, it never came to the release of an album, but the breakup of the band in the spring of 1990. One reason for this was that the US-American members tried had to move the band's headquarters to New York . The manager then tried to illegally publish a phonogram by forging the members' signatures on the contract. However, the publication could be prevented. In 2009 he made a second attempt to illegally circulate a sound carrier called A Thrash-Metal Fairy Story on the Nemesis International label, which the band's legal advisor was largely able to prevent. Only a few copies came into circulation. Most of the songs were then made available as a free download . In the following time after the breakup, the band was not completely forgotten: The concert of the "Big Four" ( Metallica , Slayer , Megadeth , Anthrax ) in the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, which was broadcast nationally on Swedish TV, was dedicated to Ice Age .
In 2014 the band got back together after accepting the offer to perform at the Gothenburg Sound Festival in January 2015. The band now consisted of Sabrina Kihlstrand and Viktoria Larsson, guitarist Mio Jäger and drummer André Holmqvist. Nyström was not in the band because they showed no interest in the reunification, while Strömberg lived too far away from the other members and couldn't find enough time to rehearse. The members knew Holmqvist as he is Larsson's boyfriend, while Jäger came from the band Frantic Amber. In May of the same year Ice Age could then be seen at the Muscle Rock Festival in Blädinge . Then the group got to know Linnea Landstedt, who belonged to a band that also performed there. Landstedt, who was a fan of Ice Age and already knew the songs, eventually became a member of Ice Age and replaced Mio Jäger. The release of a single and a music video is planned for the beginning of March 2017, before an album called Breaking the Ice will be released in April . The sound carrier should contain ten songs, half of which should be revised versions of older songs.
style
According to Janne Stark in The Heaviest Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Ever! Rock Solid has been influenced by Iron Maiden , Rush and Queensrÿche . When the group moved more towards melodic Thrash Metal, the name was changed to Ice Age. Joel McIver wrote in his book Extreme Metal II that the band plays technically sophisticated Thrash Metal, having been referred to as the female megadeth in the late 1980s. thethrashmetalguide.com also called the music melodic Thrash Metal. The style is similar to that of other all female bands in the genre like Meanstreak and Original Sin . According to Stefan Glas from Rock Hard , the band plays a mixture of speed and thrash metal, in which they were treated as the female Metallica at the time.
Discography
- as Rock Solid
- 1986: Rock Solid (demo, self-published)
- as Ice Age
- 1987: General Alert (demo, self-published)
- 1988: Demo 88 (demo, self-published)
- 1989: Instant Justice (demo, self-published)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Janne Stark: The Heaviest Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Ever! Premium Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-91-89136-56-4 , pp. 385 .
- ↑ a b c Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on April 5, 2016 ; accessed on December 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Info. Facebook , accessed December 15, 2016 .
- ^ Toine van Poorten: Back To The Past (4): ICE AGE. metalmaidens.com, accessed December 16, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Joel McIver: Extreme Metal II . Omnibus Press, 2005, ISBN 1-84449-097-1 , pp. 92 .
- ↑ a b c d Stefan Glas: Ice Age . The new ice age is coming. In: Rock Hard . No. 356 , January 2017, p. 110 .
- ↑ Video: Reactivated ICE AGE Performs At Sweden's MUSKELROCK Festival. Blabbermouth.net , accessed December 16, 2016 .
- ↑ ICE AGE (SWEDEN). thethrashmetalguide.com, accessed December 16, 2016 .
