Iced Earth...used to be my favorite band until genius revealed its madness. The Barlow era was my favorite. Saw them live in NYC where they played the Gettysburg trilogy with Barlow on vocals.
Yes, I often confuse Abigail with all the other horror concept albums about supernatural horsemen who warn couples not to move into their ancestral haunted mansions featuring five-octave vocalists released in 1987.
Saw Iced Earth April 2002 at Birch Hill in Old Bridge, NJ. Went with a friend who was a fan, I had never heard of them at that point. They were pretty good, Barlow was a great vocalist.
Yeah, I'm talking musically. Nothing to do with the concept. Thought that was glaringly obvious. Sorry, I'm not a big fan of KD solo.
I have to LOL at this! Well, you might confuse it with the other generic one where insane granny drinks enchanted tea and has her grandkids bloodlet their mother for a bunch of invisible gueats in a different mansion
I also saw them with ripper in 2004!for glorious burden. It was great and packed. I never knew barlow did some of that record live when he came back.
I will say the production and performances on this album are A grade I just find 85% of the songs to be boring as all fark. It saddens me that Priest even released such a tepid turd to tarnish their catalogue
I think their boat anchor has been their inabilty to write a decent song since 85. The new song reminds me of when "hair" bands tried to go grunge in the mid 90's making themselves look desperate and washed up (think Dokken's Shadowlife and Warrants Belly To Belly to name but two!)
Patient Number 9 Studio album by Ozzy Osbourne Released 9 September 2022 Recorded 2021–2022[1] Genre Heavy metal hard rock[2] Length 61:10 Label Epic Producer Andrew Watt
Think I’ve only got Fatal Portrait and Abigail and whilst the ‘87 has its moments it’s too much of an earbleeder to find wholly satisfying but that first one is always a surprising puncher. Then again, I was always so occupied with the EP, Melissa and DBTO the later MF records have to this day eluded me. I think this is why I have a relatively modest collection: all too frequently still sucking the marrow from the bleached bones of titanic beasts that dropped decades ago! It’s why I love coming on here and randomly bagging a recommendation various bods wax lyrical o’er: today, I’ll try and track down that Fates Warning (Parallels, was it?)
I don't agree in full, but I understand what you're saying. The darkness of MF was lost with King solo. Like the solo work but Melissa and Oath stand miles above everything else.
