Ice Age - A Case Of Cerebral Death

Bio by She Rox All Female Bands:Heavy Metal is still pretty much a boys club, and women still have to work twice as hard to prove themselves to most when it comes to playing metal, the 1980’s were even more difficult for all female bands that played metal. Based in Goteborg, Sweden’s Ice Age were pivotal in the heavy metal scene for being the very first documented all female thrash metal bands and for paving the way for women in metal for decades to come. At a time when female thrash bands were few and far between, only New York based Meanstreak would share in this genre, with Meanstreak succeeding Ice Age by a few years, the two bands would often be compared because of this. Ice Age began in 1985 by founders Sabrina Kihlstrand and Pia Nystrom, with Sabrina on lead vocals and guitar, Pia on lead guitar, hard hitting drummer Tina Stromberg and Sabrina’s sister Helena Kihlstrand on bass, the band originally known as Rock Solid, played a more power metal before honing in their speed metal sound before re