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Boxset / Compilation · 2010

Filed under US Power Metal
By ICED EARTH

Tracklist

Digipak CD – Framing Armageddon
1. Overture (2:24)
2. Something Wicked, Part 1 (5:02)
3. Invasion (1:00)
4. Motivation of Man (1:34)
5. Setian Massacre (3:48)
6. A Charge to Keep (4:24)
7. Reflections (1:50)
8. Ten Thousand Strong (3:56)
9. Execution (1:27)
10. Order of the Rose (4:51)
11. Cataclysm (1:30)
12. The Clouding (9:18)
13. Infiltrate and Assimilate (3:48)
14. Retribution Through the Ages (4:31)
15. Something Wicked, Part 2 (2:59)
16. The Domino Decree (6:36)
17. Framing Armageddon (3:40)
18. When Stars Collide (Born Is He) (4:17)
19. The Awakening (2:01)

Total Time: 69:03

Digipak Single – Overture Of The Wicked
1. Ten Thousand Strong (3:54)
2. Something Wicked: Prophecy (re-recorded version of the original from 1998 with Tim “Ripper” Owens on vocals) (6:02)
3. Something Wicked: Birth of the Wicked (re-recorded version of the original from 1998 with Tim “Ripper” Owens on vocals) (4:26)
4. Something Wicked: The Coming Curse (re-recorded version of the original from 1998 with Tim “Ripper” Owens on vocals) (7:49)

Total Time: 22:11

Digipak CD – The Crucible Of Man
1. In Sacred Flames (1:29)
2. Behold the Wicked Child (5:38)
3. Minions of the Watch (2:06)
4. The Revealing (2:40)
5. A Gift or a Curse (5:34)
6. Crown of the Fallen (2:48)
7. The Dimension Gauntlet (3:12)
8. I Walk Alone (4:00)
9. Harbinger of Fate (4:43)
10. Crucify the King (5:36)
11. Sacrificial Kingdoms (3:58)
12. Something Wicked, Part 3 (4:31)
13. Divide Devour (3:15)
14. Come What May (7:24)
15. Epilogue (2:21)

Total Time: 59:15

Digipak Single- I Walk Among You
1. I Walk Alone (4:00)
2. Setian Massacre (re-recorded version of the “Framing Armageddon” track with Matt Barlow on vocals) (3:45)
3. The Clouding (re-recorded version of the “Framing Armageddon” track with Matt Barlow on vocals) (9:18)

Total Time: 17:03

Bonus CD (cardboard sleeve)
1. A Charge To Keep (re-recorded version of the “Framing Armageddon” track with Matt Barlow on vocals)
2. Dark Saga (previously unreleased, Live At Graspop Festival, Belgium June 2008)
3. Iced Earth (previously unreleased, Live At Graspop Festival, Belgium June 2008)
4. Pure Evil (previously unreleased, Live At Graspop Festival, Belgium June 2008)

plus:
- high quality 12 pages booklet with unseen photos and liner notes by Jon Schaffer
- full coloured A1 poster

Line-up/Musicians

On Framing Armageddon:
- Jon Schaffer / lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars, bass guitars, backing vocals
- Tim "Ripper" Owens / lead and backing vocals
- Brent Smedley / drums and backing Vocals
with
- Troy Seele / guitar solos (tracks 5,6,10,12,14 and 17)
- Dennis Hayes / bass guitars (7), fretless bass guitar (12)
- Jim Morris / lead guitars (16), backing vocals
- Tim Mills / clean guitars (7)
- Howard Helm / keyboards, hammond organ, backing vocals
- Steve Rogowski / cello
- Todd Plant, Patina Ripkey, Debbie Harrell, Kathy Helm, Jason Blackerby / backing vocals

On Overture of the Wicked:
- Jon Schaffer / rhythm & lead guitars, bass guitar, backing vocals
- Tim Owens / lead vocals
- Tim Mills / lead guitar
- Brent Smedley / drums

On The Crucible of Man:
- Jon Schaffer / lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars, bass guitars, keyboards, lead vocals (Track 5), backing vocals
- Matt Barlow / lead vocals
- Troy Seele / guitar solos (5,6 and 9)
- Dennis Hayes / bass guitar (3,5,6,10 and 12)
- Brent Smedley / drums
with
- Jim Morris / clean stratocaster (5), backing vocals
- Steve Rogowski / cello (15)
- Howard Helm, Todd Plant, Jason Blackerby, Corinne Bach, Tom Morris, Kathy Helm, Jeff Brant, Debra Brant, Marshall Gillon, Tori Fuson, Heather Krueger, Jeremy Silverman, Jesse Morris, Erin Conley, Marjorie Bates / backing vocals

On I Walk Among You:
- Jon Schaffer / rhythm & lead guitars, bass, backing vocals
- Matt Barlow / lead vocals
- Troy Seele / lead guitar
- Brent Smedley / drums
- Dennis Hayes / fretless bass on "The Clouding"
- Freddie Vidales / bass on "I Walk Alone"

About this release

5 CD box set released by SPV/Steamhammer in 2010, includes the entire Something Wicked Saga plus a bonus disc.