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 Last Time
Ice Ages Lyrics
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and let this dark soul prevent this heart from pain
Bleak bygone walls They cast a shadow over you
And if you'll be there Your heart will be confined
Dawn on your mind this deadly pallor in you face
will fall a prey to this terrifying life
Time to forsake this gasping maze for evermore
This creature that you are will seek refuge in caves you made
in long forgotten times
This misery you see will forecast all the times you feared
the last time that you feel
In Ice Ages' song The Last Time, the lyrics speak of a deep sadness and a feeling of being trapped. The opening lines are a plea for connection, asking for one heart to feel and one soul to die. The idea of death is repeated, but with a different meaning; here, it is not just an end, but an escape from pain. However, the darkness of the soul will prevent any release from that pain.
The second verse paints a picture of being surrounded by bleak walls, which cast a shadow over the person. This image is one of confinement and isolation, suggesting that the heart will be confined as well. The chorus speaks of a deadly pallor on the person's face, foretelling a terrifying life. The idea of being trapped is reinforced with the phrase, "Time to forsake this gasping maze for evermore," which speaks of being caught in a labyrinth and unable to escape. The final line reiterates the sadness and finality of the title, "the last time that you feel."
Overall, The Last Time is a song about feeling trapped and alone, with the only possibility of escape being death. The lyrics are bleak and foreboding, emphasizing the despair felt by the singer. The imagery of walls and caves adds to the sense of being trapped, unable to escape. The song offers a powerful exploration of the depths of sadness, and the sense of isolation that can come with it.
Line by Line Meaning
Take if you meet one heart to feel, one soul to die
If you happen to come across someone who genuinely cares for you and is willing to die for you,
and let this dark soul prevent this heart from pain
allow your own dark soul to shield this person from any hurt and distress
Bleak bygone walls They cast a shadow over you
memories of the past fill you with melancholy, causing you to feel oppressed and hopeless
And if you'll be there Your heart will be confined
if you choose to remain trapped in this cycle of negativity and despair, your heart will feel trapped and unable to escape
Dawn on your mind this deadly pallor in your face
realize the life-draining effect this situation is having on you, causing your face to turn pale with fear
will fall prey to this terrifying life
you become a victim of the overwhelming fear and anxiety brought on by this life
Time to forsake this gasping maze forevermore
it's time to abandon this suffocating and confusing situation once and for all
but all this wide doors have seemed to fade away
all possible escape routes seem to have disappeared or become inaccessible
This creature that you are will seek refuge in caves you made in long forgotten times
your very essence will seek shelter in the caves you created in the past, as a means of self-preservation
This misery you see will forecast all the times you feared
the pain and anguish you currently experience will predict and bring up other bleak moments from your past that you've tried to forget
the last time that you feel
this could very well be the last time you experience any type of emotion, as you become numb to it all
Contributed by Peyton W. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Hedonist Aesthetic
Gregory Stanton ,
Luckily Humanity is also moving into a period when our technology may not only be warming the world at a faster rate; But it is also allowing us to modify the Animals, Humanity & the Environment to adapt to the changes we will find ourselves dealing with.
Regrettably there was a Woman Doing research on adaptation of Corals to both a warming and more acidic Ocean 🌊.
She was in the process of seeding the Australian Great Barrier Reef; Her preliminary results were very hopeful!
Hopefully with her recent death, her colleagues will be able to carry on her work.
They also had recently found some groups of Corals that were already evolving much more quickly than they ever expected to the warming ocean around their environment.
Also, around the time of the turn of the century there was a Scientist who was a strong advocate of the world warming models (Even though they couldn’t {Still Can’t} predict with any accuracy the Future let alone the past!); but at that time he stated that even if all Carbon dioxide was to end the day of his interview, The world would still warm well above the arbitrarily chosen number of 2.5 degrees.
He believed that it was foolish of his colleagues not to support Research to eliminate not only the present Co2 from the atmosphere but also the CO2 that would be released in the future. He also supported Research to try to minimize not only the heating of the earth but the increased acidification of the ocean’s; And finally the work on the genetic modification of the plant and animal life on earth, including Humanity!
It has been so long ago that I regret not being able to this time to remember his name; I believe that he was English?!?
oldie4210
I have a friend who was stationed in the high artic in the early 60's with the military. He recalled petrified tree stumps with roots 3 to 4 feet around, under neath a glacier.
oldie4210
@The TechnicanWithaHeart Dwayne died a few years back and I do not know what happened to his personal goods. He did not show me any petrified wood.
I remember though he wondered if the earth could of rotated its axis. I believe his story as he was a farmer with no education greater than high school and no aspersions than to be a farmer.
Thanks for your info, I appreciate it.
electrictroy2010
The earth has never rotated on its axis, but it has spent 70% of its existence in a tropical state (no ice on poles)
izzzzzz6
Interesting but was he a scientist? Is it possible he mistook basalt columns or other mineral formations for tree stumps. I'm not doubting what he saw just curious as to how this was backed up. Are there any videos on similar petrified stumps in the artic?
Frank Martin
During the Eemian period some 130,000 years ago (also called the penultimate interglacial period), it was quite warm, sea levels were about 30 feet higher than they are today, and forests were growing north of the Arctic Circle. The earth has gone through some dramatic temperature changes, even in the last 200,000 years or so. We're going to face some challenges adapting to dramatic changes, whatever they may be.
Stephen Morse
The transient mantle plume under the Faroe Shetland basin at the end of the Palaeocene caused massive uplift of the ocean floor (minimum of 700m to 1000m) and cut off the ocean circulation to and from the north at the time. This has been mooted as one of the contributing factors. Also, a warming sea cannot hold as much CO2 so there is a chicken and egg scenario wrt CO2 and warming.
Anonymous
Imagine how many plant and animal species in the arctic went extinct during the cooling after PETM but sea animals may have thrived due to the cooling?
onlythewise1
or died during the ice age which happened a thousand times on earth
RICK ONORATO
We always hear about how balmy it was in the Arctic during this time, but then what was life like at the equator during this period? Deserts? Unlivable and devoid of life? More tropical rainforests? I'd like to know what the rest of the planet was experiencing when temperatures were so much higher...
Decon
Very wet everywhere.