Danish punk band Iceage predicted to a great future

The Danish band Iceage is predicted to a great future from all the biggest U.S. music medias. Friday night they are for a short while back in Denmark to create a youthful concert at Roskilde before the turning again goes on the American highways.


"Who would have thought that there was a Danish band to breathe new life into punk?" The question comes from an enthusiastic reviewer at All Music - one of the most comprehensive sites for new and old music live - and summarizes the many ways the tailwind, as the very young Danish punk band Iceage currently experience in the American music press.


Since it is only 24 minutes long debut album 'New Brigade' was released to rave reviews at home earlier this year, is firkøveret been wheeled into position for an American breakthrough.


In last week released their debut album so on the American label "What's Your Rupture?" And has already been named to this year until now the fourth best album of the leading music site Stereogum front names such as PJ Harvey, Fleet Foxes and Adele.


On top of that, the song 'Broken Bone' got labeled 'Best New Music' by Pitchfork.com - the most powerful online site for alternative music in these years.A very impressive achievement by a group of uncompromising, Copenhagen teenagers who play violent, dissonant and chaotic punk music that manages far outside the traditional verse / chorus structures and are dark as hell.


Forget the Sex Pistol, who basically played pop songs wrapped in dirty blues chords and sensational hunger for Iceage owe far more to the uncompromising post-punk British names like Wire and No Wave bands like DNA.


Play 30 concerts



in the U.S. Following the release of 'New Brigade' must Iceage play over 30 concerts over the summer across the USA. The band's performance at the Roskilde Festival is a one-off before the boys again turns his nose against the United States to follow up on the buzz right now is growing around the band. Although a minor breakthrough is upon us, the young dreamer punklømler not, however, that the American adventure is to develop into a long and gloværdig career.


"I will not play when I get old. I do not know any bands with a career that we envy," the only 18-year-old vocalist Elias Bender Rønne Field recently to New York Times. So it's just about catching Iceage while still riding on the wave, when the night between Friday and Saturday. 03 plays up to the death dance and moshpit at Roskilde Odeon scene.