Fire + Ice

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

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[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 Wood, Mathew Butler, Douglas Pearce and Freya Aswynn.

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[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

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