Ice Ages is an electro-industrial project from Vienna, Austria, founded in … Read Full Bio ↴Ice Ages is an electro-industrial project from Vienna, Austria, founded in 1994 by Richard Lederer, known for darkwave band Die Verbannten Kinder Evas and black metal band Summoning.
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.

The Denial
Ice Ages Lyrics

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[written by Grom]

My eyes refuse to see
This pale sky filled with sorrow
The empty space we gain in melancholic dreams

My heart refused to count
The time I have till ending

To be a friend of dying leaves

My fate belongs the dark
This pain will leave no gashes
Closed eyes won't ever see this pain

My lungs refuse to breath

and prefer suffocation
To never see this thing called life

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Ice Ages's song The Denial is a somber reflection on the meaningless and melancholic nature of life. The singer's eyes refuse to see the dreary sky, which is filled with sorrow. They describe the empty space gained through melancholic dreaming, which suggests that the singer is detached from the world and finds solace in their own thoughts. The singer's heart refuses to count the time they have until the end and chooses to be a friend of dying leaves, highlighting the transience and fragility of life.

The singer's fate belongs to darkness, a metaphor for the inevitability of pain and suffering. The pain they feel will leave no gashes, indicating that the sorrow is internal and cannot be healed through external means. The singer's closed eyes won't ever see this pain, implying that ignorance is perhaps a coping mechanism for their suffering. The final lines of the song describe how the singer's lungs refuse to breathe and prefer suffocation to never seeing this thing called life. This suggests that the singer sees life as a burden and would rather not exist than continue to suffer.

Line by Line Meaning

My eyes refuse to see
I am deliberately avoiding acknowledging what I see.

This pale sky filled with sorrow
I see despair and sadness in the sky.

The empty space we gain in melancholic dreams
When I dream, I feel like I have more emptiness in my life.

My heart refused to count
I am not accepting the reality that my time may be limited.

The time I have till ending
The finite amount of time I have left in life.

To be a friend of dying leaves
To accept that everything, including life, must one day come to an end.

My fate belongs to the dark
I believe that darkness and sadness are inevitable parts of my life's journey.

This pain will leave no gashes
The pain I feel is internal and invisible to others.

Closed eyes won't ever see this pain
I wish to escape my pain by closing my eyes, but it will still be there when I open them.

My lungs refuse to breathe
I am avoiding experiencing life by not breathing.

And prefer suffocation
I would rather feel suffocated than experience the pain and hardship of living.