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Hands down, my favourite USPM band, and tied with Angra for my favourite band to be labelled Power Metal. Night of the Stormrider is an amazing album, and I've heard they put on an awesome show. Not surprised, what with how absolutely amazing Travel in Stygian is. (note that this is obviously live and not the singer that originally sang the song, but damned if he isn't awesome.) nUvNMunHtN8 And this is the cover of the album they're working on at this moment, with new vocalist Stu Block (Into Eternity) ie-dystopia.jpg gibe thoughts

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Re: Iced Earth Way overrated and fairly bland live. I saw them on the 'Glorious Burden' tour with Ripper (he was the reason I went) and he alone made the show bearable. Ralph Santola was pretty badass too however. I have all their releases up to and including 'The Dark Saga' but they just kept putting the same thing out after that thus why I stopped listening to them. That and Barlow is awful. He constant grunts and yips after EVER sentence/word sung/shouted gets old really fast. :idea:

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Just discovering Iced Earth' date=' by which I mean I know one of their songs, the song is Dracula in case you were wondering, I'm gonna be getting a lot of their albums very soon[/quote'] Their only albums worth owning are: Night of the Storm Rider Burnt Offerings The Dark Saga The Glorious Burden (maybe)
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Re: Iced Earth Everything they've done post 'The Dark Saga' has been "worst of" material IMO. Schaffer's been writing the same song for 20 years. I stopped listening to them because of that and Barlow is a horrible singer. It's pretty lame that he puts out a comp of old songs featuring his current singer every time they they get a new vocalist.

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Re: Iced Earth now own Burnt Offerings and I have to say that album has been instantly added to my list of fave albums ever, maybe they should have kept making albums like that, the song Dante's Inferno bummed me out though. Here I was thinking I'd be original and write lyrics about Dante's Divine Comedy when it turns out Iced Earth did it already...Damn

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Re: Best Iced Earth Albums? no, they're terrible musically which is why his tenure with the band was so short, a shame really as if he had been with the band in their early years Iced Earth could have been a far more respected band, Iced Earth's best albums are Night Of The Stormrider, Burnt Offerings, Dark Saga (not rated highly by some people but I think it's pretty good) and their new album Dystopia is ok, other then that some of their albums have ok songs but aren't worth buying

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