We wanted to be a thorn in the side of all that.” So subconsciously that’s why we set out to create it ourselves – we were doing it very much in spite of everything else. We couldn’t relate to anything in the mainstream, the indie world or the underground. “We pretty much hated everything that was going on around us. “An adolescent, reptilian sort of thing,” Elias self-reviews. 10 years ago, their raging debut ‘New Brigade’ detonated like a nail bomb in the Copenhagen underground – the sound of four nihilistic teenage punk malcontents lashing out cold and wild, in all directions at once, at everything and nothing. It’s a pertinent moment for Iceage to take a breath. So there’s been a lot of appreciation, I think, and some gratitude that was good for me to take away from this.” The nature of getting something taken away from you is that you’re left with what you still have. “I’ve had a tendency in the past to, geographically, run away from things and that option has not been there, so you had to take a cold, hard stare at what’s in your immediate vicinity. “And there’s been a few lessons in there. “It’s the only time in the past 10 years that I’ve experienced being roughly static in a place,” he says. He ruffles his hair into ever more stylishly unkempt angles, then reminds himself that he’s supposed to be appreciating the personal time, space and distance of being forced off a decade-long road for a year. Read more: Iceage – ‘Seek Shelter’ review: Danish punks’ bombastic arena rock reinvention.You had to take that cold turkey and learn how to exist just here in Copenhagen.” After two or three weeks you’d be like, ‘Where’s the next place that I’m going to?’. “You start not really knowing how to cope with just being in a place. “If you’re back at land, you start… itching,” says saturnine Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, gazing into his Zoom screen with the thousand-yard stare of a landlocked mariner.

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