Ice Age

Album:An Omen EP
Welcome Oblivion

Length:6:59

Tempo: BPM

Versions:Ice Age
Ice Age (The Soft Moon remix)
Ice Age (deadmau5 remix)

Live:Unperformed

"Ice Age" is a song by How To Destroy Angels from their second release, An Omen EP. In a Reddit AMA, Trent Reznor talked about the track

Thank you. We were experimenting around with the juxtaposition of something familiar and almost folky sounding sitting in a very cold and sterile environment. Mariqueen had this melody that would have been happy living in a Fleetwood Mac record, and we created this plucky accompaniment that sounded acoustic but was anything but. Then we put all that in the freezer. The full record expands the boundaries of the EP a bit more.

It is also one of four songs from An Omen EP to be featured on HTDA's first full-length release, Welcome Oblivion (due March 2013).

Appearances

• An Omen EP
• Welcome Oblivion

Versions

Ice Age

This is the album version. It was the second single released for the EP, and features a prominent stringed instrument being plucked throughout.

Ice Age (The Soft Moon remix)

This is a heavier version of the track, remixed by The Soft Moon. It has a darker feel, with many additional elements added by the remixers. It was released on HTDA's soundcloud on December 12th, 2012.

Ice Age (deadmau5 remix)

This is a remix by deadmau5, released through his personal Soundcloud.

Music video

The music video for the song premiered just after midnight on 28th November 2012, and was the third video released for An Omen EP (the former two both being for "Keep It Together"). The video takes places mainly inside a log cabin built inside a rapidly freezing landscape. It begins as a predominantly performance video, with all four members of the band appearing. As the video progresses, visual distortions, similar to the VHS distortions used in the promotional art for the EP, start to form over the image to give the effect of tape damage, later combined with the effects of CRT monitor distortion. The video progresses to showing "home movie" images, with all people in the footage being blacked out, with the video distortions getting more and more pronounced. The video closes with the room freezing over.

Credits

Directed by: John Hillcoat
Director of photography: Linus Sandgren
Edited by: Dylan Tichenor
Assistant editor: Chris Patterson
Analog VFX artist: Gunther Campine

VFX - The Mill

Executive producer: Sean Costelloe
Producer: Rachel Stones
Lead VFX: Corey Brown, Nathan Kane
VFX: Danny Morris, Burtis Scott, Tony Robins, Melissa Graff, Jade Kim, Dusty Diller, Randy Krueger, Kshitij Khanna
Colorist: Fergus McCall
Production company: Skunk
Executive producer: Shelly Townsend
Producer: Jonathan Pavesi

Lyrics

NOTE: THESE LYRICS ARE TRANSCRIBED BY EAR AND MAY BE INCORRECT

   I find it looks the same, but everything has changed
   I find remembering gets harder every day
   Sometimes I still believe who I pretend to be
   Sometimes, well, everything's exactly how it seems
   Exactly how it seems

   I see the color of your eyes has turned to gray
   I feel the wind is growing colder every day
   Sometimes I open up the walls and disappear
   Sometimes the crashing of the waves is all I hear

   Ocean, oh, help me find a way
   Ocean, oh, wash us all away

   I know that everything we did will come around
   I take the thought of you and burn it to the ground
   Sometimes I'm waiting for this ice age to arrive
   Sometimes the hate in me is keeping me alive

   Ocean, oh, help me find a way
   Ocean, oh, wash us all away
   Ocean, oh, help me find a way
   Ocean, oh, carry us away

External Links

• Music video
• The Soft Moon remix
• deadmau5 remix

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