“On their astonishing fourth album, the Danish punk band reach for pop-gothic grandeur with more tenacity and abandon than ever.”
“Iceage return with their most accessible, expansive record yet”
““I can’t stop killing, and we’ll never stop killing and we shouldn’t stop killing,” Iceage‘s Elias Bender Rønnenfelt snarls on the machine-gun opener to their fourth album. It’s a welcome battle-cry from a band who we’ve been without for too long. The band formed of teenage angst in 2008, and the last ten years have seen the four Danes defy genre, delight critics, and rattle more than a few skele”
“There are few contemporary guitar groups who inspire such feverish reactions among the arts commentariat than Iceage. From the opening clangour of their debut LP, ‘New Brigade’, critics the world over were climbing over one other to proclaim the brilliance of these scarily young Danes, and as they’ve grown across the past seven years, so has the cultish intensity of the high regard in which they a”
“Iceage dials down the abrasiveness and theatricality on the still pretty solid Beyondless.”
“It goes without saying that Iceage are not a cheerful band. Ever since their brutal debut, New Brigade, the Danish post-punks have bombarded listeners with their disorderly mix of hardcore, goth and rockabilly. But beneath that chaotic gloom, singer Elias Bender Rønnenfelt has steadily sharpened his lyrics to a euphoric edge. Whether it cuts through his characters' megalomania, their religiosity, ”
