The band's lyrics and slogans often include terms of ice and sailing, such as "Ahoi" ("Ahoy") and "Es wird kalt" ("It's getting cold"); vocalist Alexander Wesselsky often wears naval and military clothing in performances.

In 2007, Eisbrecher performed at two major German music festivals, Wave-Gotik-Treffen ("Wave Gothic Meeting") and Summer Breeze Open Air.

[3] The band then went a tour between September 2008 and October 2009, playing in Germany, Austria, Russia, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Music videos were planned for "This Is Deutsch" and "Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein", but were cancelled in favor of new material and live shows.

In early March 2009, the band signed with a new American music label, Metropolis Records, due to Dancing Ferret Discs closing in late 2008.

On 24 April 2009, Wesselsky and Noel Pix were guests on Radio Goethe to promote the American release of Sünde.

He also mentioned that, with the popularity of Rammstein, Nena and Falco, he hopes that Eisbrecher can become the next big German act in the United States.

[5] After the Summer Breeze Open Air festival, bassist Olli Pohl left the band.

On 26 February 2011, it was announced in the Herzeleid.com forums that live drummer Rene Greil had left Eisbrecher for health reasons.

However, Alexander Wesselsky stated that the album was made without the band's knowledge and that they did not choose any of the songs to appear on the compilation.

Eisbrecher appeared at the Nova Rock Festival in Austria on 11 June 2011, the same day Thirty Seconds to Mars, HammerFall, In Extremo and Linkin Park performed.

During the Zugspitze concert on 5 November 2011, Eisbrecher performed six new songs from their upcoming album titled Die Hölle muss warten.

In August, Eisbrecher performed at Wacken Open Air, the largest metal festival in the world.

Eisbrecher's album Die Hölle muss warten achieved Gold status after selling more than 100,000 copies across Germany as of 23 January 2016.

[9] Announced on 5 October 2016 via Eisbrecher's Facebook page, they released their seventh studio album, Sturmfahrt, in the summer of 2017.

Bands that played at the second festival were Oomph!, Stahlmann, Zeromancer, Die Krupps, and Schöngeist.

The third edition of the festival was headlined by the band and featured And One, Mono Inc., Diary of Dreams, A Life Divided, and Heldmaschine.

Eisbrecher planned their first European tour, "Eis Over Europe", for May 2020, featuring fellow German Neue Deutsche Härte band Maerzfeld.

[22] Liebe Macht Monster was announced via the band's Facebook page on 15 January to be the next studio album due for release on 12 March 2021.

Eisrecher announced on their website on the first of March 2022 that the "Eis Over Europe" tour would be further postponed to late April 2023, in order for the date to line up with the band's 20th anniversary.

On 17 February 2024, Alexx Wesselsky announced in an interview with Augsburger Allgemeine that co-founder and lead guitarist Jochen 'Noel Pix' Seibert is not a part of Eisbrecher anymore.

[24] On 21 November, the band released a cover Tränen lügen nicht which was accompanied by a music video.