Biography

Ikarie is a Doom band formed in 2019, with a strong influence of the 90's death/doom scene as represented by bands like My dying Bride, Anathema, Paradise Lost, or Katatonia, along with the post metal and sludge of bands like Cult of Luna or Amenra. The group is integrated by former members of the now disappeared Spanish band from Alicante Nahemah and the current member bands The Holeum and The Last 3 Lines. Their music is deeply rooted in the places where they grew up, reflecting the same atmosphere of abandonment, loneliness, lack of opportunities, the need to emigrate and the crudeness of life, forming a set of musical passages like a dark, slow, honest and furious litany translated into different states of mind, through almost cinematographic images and emotions that range from the desolation of an abandoned and half alive and half desertic village in the middle of an arid landscape, to the visceral wrenching of a cliff in flames. The band defines their concept as a form of cosmic existentialism, dealing about our freedom and responsibility as a rational species aware of its insignificant, terrifying and astonishing existence in the universe. After one year of writing and recording during the confinement of 2020, their debut album was released under the umbrella of the label Avantgarde Music the last September 24th.