{"id":14681,"date":"2026-06-28T19:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?p=14681"},"modified":"2026-06-28T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:03:16","slug":"fire-ice-midwinter-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?p=14681","title":{"rendered":"Fire + Ice \u200e\u2013 Midwinter Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fire + Ice \u200e\u2013 Midwinter Fires<\/strong><br>Label: Fremdheit \u200e\u2013 FREMD CD 95<br>Format: CD, Reissue<br>Country: Germany<br>Released: 2007<br>Style: Neofolk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Midwinter Fires has plenty of the mysterious and powerful magick of Northern Europe we expect from Fire + Ice, which here concentrates somewhat more on the heroic struggle against impossible odds exemplified by the Siegfried made famous by Wagner. There are other influences going on here: the Island of the Mighty has had too colorful a past to allow for a narrow perspective on its traditions. On this record, Ian Read was joined by Julie Woods, Mathew Butler and Ian Pirrie. Whether called Apocalyptic Folk or by its newest name, Neofolk,Fire + Ice has been and is one of its leading lights<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Midwinter Fires\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/5qgMZEzRkqPcWWkSsJr2Yg?go=1&amp;sp_cid=be7dd8ddd2f41ede061e706dd6bf1de2&amp;utm_source=oembed&amp;utm_medium=desktop\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/shop\/item\/2989270091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"128\" src=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-1024x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-1024x128.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-500x63.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-1140x143.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire + Ice \u200e\u2013 Midwinter FiresLabel: Fremdheit \u200e\u2013 FREMD CD 95Format: CD, ReissueCountry: GermanyReleased: 2007Style: Neofolk Midwinter Fires has plenty of the mysterious and powerful magick of Northern Europe we expect from Fire + Ice, which here concentrates somewhat more on the heroic struggle against impossible odds exemplified by the Siegfried made famous by Wagner. There are other influences going on here: the Island of the Mighty has had too colorful a past to allow for a narrow perspective on its traditions. On this record, Ian Read was joined by Julie Woods, Mathew Butler and Ian Pirrie. Whether called Apocalyptic Folk or by its newest name, Neofolk,Fire + Ice has been and is one of its leading lights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1033,118],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-14681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cd","category-distribution","tag-neofolk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14683,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14681\/revisions\/14683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}