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War - Brodermordet

"Brodermordet" is an early taste of War, the Danish band comprised of Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt and Sexdrome's Loke Rahbek. Digging from a 2-D toolbox of analog synths, drums, and guitar pedals, the duo creates the texture of a dense tape collage, pushing the repetitive structure of an early industrial dance track under a thick cloud of four-track fog. The song plays like a dizzying merry-go-round of sound that screeches at every mechanized turn. It's a kind of between-states noise-pop that's more purgatorial than hypnagogic.

What's particularly fascinating is how Rønnenfelt and Rahbek newly contextualize the brashness they've become known for in underground punk circles. Violence, for example, which apparently defined Iceage's early shows, serves as this track's central point of reference. The Danish word "brodermordet" translates to "brother murder" or "fratricide", and the band says they're making a direct allusion to Cain and Abel's murderous Biblical tale. But, blood aside, the droning "Brodermordet" is largely characterized by the distant, indecipherable mystique that has also made Iceage's aggression so alluring.