Fire + Ice (band)

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Fire + Ice is the name of English musician Ian Read's primary dark folk ensemble.

1 Overview
2 Discography
- 2.1 Albums and EPs
- 2.2 Compilations
3 External links
- 3.1 Official
- 3.2 Unofficial

[edit] Overview

Read founded Fire + Ice in 1991 after several years as a member of Sol Invictus. According to their sole website, "The heartlessness of the modern commercial consumer society ruins the lives of many. FIRE + ICE takes the purity and philosophy of early music and melds it into a message redolent with powerful seeds of honour, truth, loyalty and the bond of true friendship."

The music reflects Read's keen interests in magic lore, runes, tradition, renaissance medievalism, Nordic mysticism and other esoteric and occult mysteries.

Ian Read and his work as Fire + Ice have had a large amount of influence on neofolk music.

Others who have appeared on Fire + Ice albums include: Simon Norris, Michael Cashmore, Michael Moynihan, Annabel Lee, Joseph Budenholzer, Joolie Woods, Mathew Butler, Douglas Pearce and Freya Aswynn.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums and EPs

Year	Title	Format, Special Notes	Label
1992	Gilded By The Sun	CD	New European Recordings
1992	Live At Hammersmith	VHS	Chaos International
1993	Blood On The Snow	CD Single	Fremdheit
1994	Hollow Ways	CD	Fremdheit
1994	California Daze	Live CD with Charlie MacGowan.	Discordia
1995	Midwinter Fires	CD	Fremdheit
1995	Live At The Hollywood Moguls	VHS	Fremdheit
1996	Dark Side	CD	Fremdheit
1996	Rûna	CD	Fremdheit
1996	Reyn Again	7"	Fremdheit
1998	Seasons Of Ice	CD	Fremdheit
2000	Birdking	CD	Fremdheit
2000	We Said Destroy	Split 7" with Death In June	Fremdheit

[edit] Compilations

Year	Title	Format, Special Notes	Label
1996	The Pact: Flying In The Face...	CD	Fremdheit
1998	The Nitha Fields	CD	Ultra!
2000	The Pact: ...Of The Gods'	CD	Fremdheit
2004	Tyr II	CD included with magazine.	Ultra!
2005	Looking For Europe	4xCD set.	Auerbach Tonträger