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Ian Read

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Ian Read has been collaborating with vocals since 1986 to Death In June, in live and studio recordings. Douglas P also produced and appeared on some of his own albums.

Ian Read is an English neofolk and traditional folk musician.

History
At the age of 16, Read became an adherent of Germanic neopaganism and began studying Germanic paganism. He was particularly interested in Galðr or magical metrical poetry and the runes. Read learned to speak and read Old Norse and Old English in addition to German to further his studies in Northern European history and folklore. These interests later heavily influenced his musical pursuits.

Music
Read began his musical career with Current 93 and contributed vocals to the tracks, "Benediction" and "Malediction" on the 1987 album, Swastikas for Noddy as well as Loony Runes, recorded in 1990. He aided Douglas P. on the Death In June album, Brown Book and appeared on Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God, a reworking of Swastikas for Noddy, with new tracks and arrangements.

In 1987 Read joined Tony Wakeford's Sol Invictus along with Karl Blake. Read recorded three albums and an EP with Sol Invictus before leaving to form the band Fire + Ice in 1991.

Most recently, he has been involved in musical projects with the bands While Angels Watch, Darkwood, Forseti and Sonne Hagal, the latter two projects in which he sang vocals in German.

Other pursuits
In 1996 Read was named as a Rune-Master within the Rune-Gild. His master work was the Fire + Ice album Rûna that included a self-written and sung galdor (or galdr) of the Rune poem. Read presently holds the position of Drighten in the Rune Gild and currently co-publishes the periodical Rûna.

Read became the leader of the English branch of the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT), in the early 1990s after founder Peter Carroll stepped down as leading Magus. Read is currently the editor of the IOT's Chaos International.

See also (other bands)

 * Death in June
 * Bands:Sol Invictus
 * Fire and Ice
 * While Angels Watch
 * Sonne Hagal
 * Verdandi