ICED EARTH — Iced Earth (review)

ICED EARTH — Iced Earth album cover Album · 1990 · US Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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When the night falls...

Genre: power metal

The debut full length-album from power metal legend Iced Earth, "Iced Earth" is marked by a very strange vocal style.

However, once you get used to the vocals, this album is not half bad. While neither as experimental nor as progressively oriented as Mercyful Fate, Iced Earth's effort on this album does remind me a bit of Mercyful Fate. And Iced Earth certainly deserve credit for this first attempt; some of their songs in this album are rather dynamic in structure, and, of course, there is plenty of Shaeffer's souped up galloping power riffs. The lyrical content, nihilistic and postmodern in nature, offers some interesting perspectives on apocalypse, emotions and reincarnation.

This album should certainly appeal to fans of power metal... if they can get used to the screechy vocals that is. No, really, this is a very enjoyable album.
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