In 1997, the first Ice Ages album, titled "Strike the Ground", was released. In contrast to the orchestral and melancholic atmosphere of Die Verbannten Kinder Evas or the fantasy world of Summoning, this project takes a more aggressive and darker turn.
The second album to be released on Napalm Records in late 2000, "This Killing Emptiness", follows the style of the debut. However, it boasts of a superior sound quality and a more mature writing style that blends ominously with the ever-present deep and distorted voice (and sometimes raw and clearer voice) of Richard Lederer.
In opposite to other releases of the electro scene, the rhythmical structure is more complicated and the tunes are more polyphonic. The aim of Ice Ages is to follow its own typical dark, melodic and sluggish way, and not to follow any modern trends.
After some serious problems with his other projects his whole musical productivity got a huge undesired rest. Anyway this time was not lost, during that time Richard started to deal very intensely with new software synthesizers (mainly with "Reaktor 5") to get more sound possibilities and a wider flexibility of sound creation for Ice Ages. Filled with all those experiences he started to create the new songs in a short time and finally after a delay of 7 years the new album "Buried Silence" is almost completed. The lyrics are again written by Grom, but this time they are especially written for the music, having not existed before and adapted to the music as on the last album.
The new songs follow the style of "This Killing Emptiness"; they are again very dark, slow, and melodic, with a heavy distorted drum-sound, but this time maybe using rougher melodic sounds in most songs and also even increasing in the complexity of the rhythms. the new album will be released end of june again under napalm records.
I Come for You
Ice Ages Lyrics
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I come for you
my hollow skull
with dust of bones and blood
I came for you
my silent curse
With mask of grim
of endless joy
of endless pain and lie
It comes and goes '
-eternally
It's silence filled with - pain
The lyrics of the song "I Come for You" by Ice Ages convey the image of a haunted figure coming for someone with a hollow skull filled with dust of bones and blood. The imagery here suggests that the figure could be a ghost or a specter that is returning to haunt someone. The lyrics continue to build on this idea of a curse with the words "I came for you, my silent curse, to breathe it and destroy." This line suggests that the figure has come to destroy the person they are haunting, implying that there is some form of vengeance at play.
As the song progresses, there seems to be an element of duality in the figure haunting the person. The lyrics describe a "mask of grim, of endless joy, of endless pain and lie." This mask could symbolize the persona that the figure wears to hide its true intentions or it could represent the mixed emotions and feelings that surround the haunting.
The final lines of the song "It comes and goes eternally; It's silence filled with pain" suggests that the figure will keep returning to haunt the person forever. The silence is described as being filled with pain, which could represent the emotional pain that this haunting is causing for both the figure and the person being haunted.
Line by Line Meaning
I come for you
I am here to find you
my hollow skull
my empty mind and soul
with dust of bones and blood
carrying the remains of death and destruction
I came for you
I arrived to seek you out
my silent curse
my unspoken trauma and pain
to breath it and destroy.
to unleash my sorrows upon you and ruin everything
With mask of grim
my appearance of negativity and darkness
of endless joy
while showing infinite happiness
of endless pain and lie
in reality, concealing persistent agony and deceit
It comes and goes '
this feeling arrives and departs
-eternally
lasting forever
It's silence filled with - pain
despite the quietness around it, it is consumed with suffering
Contributed by Cooper O. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Alee Buritz
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sakuwantstofight
Who would of thought the sole brain of Ice Ages was a black metal musician.
Honestly Ice Ages is better than Summoning. So it says a lot.