Hi, guys, thanks for doing this interview. I am
sure you have not had many so far, as I.C.E. is a
relatively new band. First off, let me congratulate
you on your first full-length Apocalyptic End in
White. An Album of the Month on Metalreviews.com. As a
casual black metal fan I have to say I am very
impressed. With your 3-song demo flying very much
under the radar (many black metal fans I know have
never heard of I.C.E. before), was it difficult to secure
the deal? How long is it? How many full length albums
we can expect? Why Crash?
Yes, this is our first spoken interaction with a
human interviewer, and we are glad to open the doors
of truth to the ears of the contemplatable human
race...let them know of their oncoming demise...there
is more pain and fear that way ....unlike the wild
animals who are oblivious to the approaching
apocalypse. Be aware and know, that soon the time
shall come, and you will all succumb. We know that
many of you have never heard of I.C.E. before, and that
does not surprise us, this is because we have spent
many years secluded away within our caves amongst the
frozen north....preparing our souls....we were once
mortal, and now thru communion with the ancient spirit
of Råvaskeith, we were chosen to be the ones...the
ones to bring the subzero kingdom of old to existence
once more.
We speak the truth with our music, preparing the
frozen apocalypse and raising Råvaskieth is a very
time consuming thing, and takes many years...our link
to our human lives is still buried within us...and so
we felt compelled to gather together using our human
talents of the past to create this album for the
masses, as a taunting spit in the eye of humanity. You
have no idea what is in store for you.....all in due
time. It was not difficult to find a label to spread
the word, especially in the metal scene where people
seem to embrace the death and misery, I know there are
some out there who also eagerly await the coming of
the END, this music is for them. It is fitting that
these humans upon hearing I.C.E. immediately embrace it,
in wonder and amazement - because of their primordial
astral fluid subconsciously screaming at them: YOU
SHOULD NOT BE HERE....THE END IS NEAR... Cosmic, cold
and ancient, the chaos gods of I.C.E. shall return to
rule once more. We are not sure as to how long it will
take for us to complete our mission. Communion with
the amorphous energy of the utmost ancient will take
many years......so I'm sure we will be back again to
record another album of testimony....we shall
see....for now revel in APOCALYPTIC END IN WHITE.
Apocalyptic End in White is a perfect fire, or
should I say, icestorm. Rather than me trying to
describe it, how about you tell us how one arrives at
such a balance of speed, atmosphere, brutality and
melody. Take it away.
To describe these things, I cannot really say. I
do know that before we took it upon ourselves to take
the jump and move to the wilderness of the north -
feeling the pull of Råvaskieth, we were all musicians
as humans...outcasts...different. To us all these
things you talk of, all come naturally, and I suppose
that the powers we inherited through our astral
communions, may have influenced our talents even more
so, giving us even more talent. All of our senses and
abilities are constantly growing stronger, and the
cold emptiness prepares us for the time, when we will
be given the final power to raise the beasts, and
bring the rightful unity of cold black emptiness to
the universe once more.
If this music sounds inhuman to you, then you are
correct. Just by playing the album in your speakers,
you are opening the eyes of the otherside to peer
right into you....and you feel that as the music rages
on.
What is I.C.E. song writing process like? Are these
songs a collective creature or a work of an
individual?
These songs all come from a collective....we
gather together in this form only so often to spit
forth this human way of expanding the mind and soul.
Our inhuman souls are constantly colliding together on
the astral level intertwining, and inspiring each
other.....hence all these songs come forth naturally
as a combined unity of power and conviction. No one
person creates, we all just flow. We do not handle
things as normal human men can comprehend....It is
hard for me to explain...This music just IS....as we
just ARE.
How does I.C.E. achieve such thick, bottom heavy
production with all instruments, including vocals
being so clear?
Our connection to our past lives as humans
amongst the monkey cattle presented us with many
contacts, that our brains retained during the
transformation. When we gathered back together here in
the States, we used these contacts to get in touch
with who we thought could record this album the best.
We gave that producer the challenge and he accepted.
The album came out just as we expected. SUPREME. As
for the vocals, we have no control of vocals or
lyrics, the voice of Råvaskieth spits forth from us,
whenever we open our mouths...we can not control
that..nor understand the presence or power of it just
yet...it just happens.
I am sure I was not the only one who made
comparisons to Immortal in my review. Do you agree
with this or not? How do these comparisons make you
feel?
We do not know of this "Immortal"? Surely there
can be no immortal on this planet.....this is a
corporeal planet, and thus all living energy will
eventually be frozen dead, once the Gåmorkian powers
make there way from the abyss across the frozen
emptiness of space....all will perish. There are no
immortals but those who still dwell within the strain
of the frozen black holes and expanding nebuli.
You can’t talk about I.C.E. and not mention the Image.
What is in the band’s name? Song titles? The outfits?
The overall approach?
We are IMPERIAL CRYSTALLINE ENTOMBMENT. The name
says it all, but you will not be able to comprehend
this until you are convulsing in terror and pain as
you see the endless snow falling over your strained
and wincing face. Then and only then will you know the
meaning of this Imperial Crystalline Entombment. As
for the song titles and lyrics and such, I talked of
this before: we have no control of vocals or lyrics,
the voice of Råvaskieth spits forth from us, whenever
we open our mouths...we can not control that..nor
understand the presence or power of it just yet...it
just happens. The clothing we wear simply conceals us
amongst the vast frozen landscape during our
communions. We need not be disturbed by any who many
spot our ritual communions. Also these cloaks conceal
and hide our now sunken and frozen bodies...hideous
are flesh as become thru the transformation. We feel
nothing and our blood now pumps sheer ice
Råvaskeith. Did I.C.E. create this God of Cold or does
he arrive from some Northern mythology?
I.C.E. created nothing. We are merely mediators
between the ancient and this corporeal universe, nor
is the great Råvaskieth a myth. All your human
scientists have comprehended that the concept of time
is nonexistent, and "just is" and “has been”, far
before humans designated "time" to it. They also have
stumbled upon the hundreds of traveling black holes
that sift through this sun's star cluster alone, and
yet they are still far from realizing the origin of
these shifting masses and their power and that empty
black matter that fills the vast, cold abyss of space.
We where chosen, conjured and brought to the north to
be the first creatures of this universe to conjure and
summon the waves of ice through the ever expanding
universe. This is fact, and we have no control nor
invention over this power, It will make itself known
soon enough.
What do you think a death from hypothermia would
feel like?
You will all know the answer to this eventually
firsthand. However, when we originally died within the
great storm of the aurora aligning, it was more than
hypothermia. Hypothermia was just the beginning, the
portal, the calm before the storm....you will all know
the meaning of this.
You are probably aware that the net is rife with
speculation on structure and membership of I.C.E. The
shroud of secrecy is thick and I am positive you are
not going to unveil it for this curious soul. How much
are you willing to divulge? Your booklet does not even
talk about which member plays what instrument.
Our identities died the minute our souls were
ripped from our chests and cast upon the whirling
winds of the Blissered shrine. Even if we retained
memory of who we were as mortals, it would be
unimportant to the mission of I.C.E. We will divulge
all that you human monkeys are allowed to know of the
ancient. Concerning the instruments, all these songs
come forth naturally as a combined unity of power and
conviction, there are no instruments but us ourselves,
as the instruments for the open eye of Råvaskieth.
With I.C.E. members being involved with other
projects what are the long term goals for the band?
Will it remain the band? Should we expect the next
album sometime? When?
What other projects? There is nothing else in
our lives / death apart from I.C.E.. We were given a new
life, and until our mission is complete, I.C.E. and the
summoning of the END, shall be the way. We will
continue to thrive amongst the northlands, hidden
within caverns of ice and snow, communing with the
ONE. Your children shall continue to be abducted by
us, and skinned within the piercing blizzard winds of
astral nebuli. You mortal monkeys are so quick to
inquire about more I.C.E., more death, more misery, more
hateful blasting. It is no wonder that your deaths
will come swift and painful the way you subconsciously
desire it to be....because primordially deep down, you
know what should be. The end of life, the rise of the
Råvaskieth and the rightful frozen universal kingdom.
Your personal message to the readers of
Metalreviews.com
Those of you who have always looked at this
existence and known that something is not right,
something is wrong.....you look with hate and
misanthropy...I.C.E. is for you...to open your souls and
have the great eye of Råvaskieth stare into you. Feel
the hate, and when the cold winds come and the
screaming begins....take your knife with you into the
snow....bury yourself deep and end your own life, then
and only then will you who understand, perish in
emptiness without the vicious pain of the astral
cosmic regime....