“Breaking The Ice”
“Clever”
Band: Vicki Larsson - Bass André Holmqvist - Drums Sabrina Kihlstrand - Guitar / Vocals Linnea Landstedt - Guitar
“Hell Or Nothing”
Fans of Sweden’s Ice Age have waited three decades for the band’s debut album, but those long-suffering faithful have finally been rewarded. The Gothenburg-based quartet was founded as Rock Solid in 1985 by vocalist Sabrina Kihlstrand and guitarist Pia Nyström. The following year, as the unit’s sound shifted from power metal to a more progressive thrash style, the band changed its name to Ice Age and released its first demo. By the time the group released its second demo in 1986, Viktoria Larsson had joined the line-up on bass, which was rounded out by drummer Tina Strömberg. Poor management would plague the band for the next four years leading to the departure of Kihlstrand and Larsson in 1989, and ultimately to the break-up of Ice Age in 1990. In 2014, Sabrina and Viktoria reunited bringing in Manimal drummer André Holmqvist to backstop the band. After performing with Frantic Amber guitarist Mio Jäger for a year, Linnéa Landstedt of Tyranex came on board to serve as lead guitarist. Interestingly, Landstedt was actually born during the Ice Age demo years. With a balanced line-up of veteran members and newer members the band recorded its debut album, Breaking the Ice. Appropriately, the record features five vintage Ice Agetracks, and five new songs.
- Rustyn Rose / Metalholic -
ICE AGE - Breaking The Ice Breaking The Ice (2017) GMR Music Göteborg / Sweden Artwork By, Design – Erik Rovanperä
Here’s a high quality, complete and remastered copy of Instant Justice by Ice Age, the rare demo video. This came from a very high quality S-VHS master source, recorded in XP Mode on a standalone DVD recorder. I remastered the audio, this copy is by far the best copy I’ve ever seen of this video. This video features the beautiful Debbie Gunn on vocals. As far as I know this video only aired on MTV’s Headbangers Ball around ‘89.
- SacrifyX -
I remember seeing them on MTV’s Headbangersball more than 30 years ago. Back then they were still a unsigned band with a couple of demo tracks, this was more than worth the wait! \m/\m/
2018 - Live @ Muskelrock
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Rock Solid
1986 - Rock Solid (demo)
Ice Age
1987 - General Alert (demo) 1988 - Demo '88 (demo) 1989 - Instant Justice (demo) 2017 - Breaking The Ice (CD, GMR Music Group)
- necro69mancer -
