I'll always consider Iced Earth to be one of the best melodic metal bands ever but also one who always let a true classic album pass them by. Night of the Stormrider should have been their Maiden killer but their singer was cut rate, then Burnt Offerings had some great songs but wasn't consistent and clearly a transition album while the band figured out what they could do with Barlow, and then they became a gimmick band. A great gimmick band, but still a band who was like "90s Metallica is popular and so is Spawn so let's milk that", they almost did it with Something Wicked this Way Comes but I think the 90s Metallica had done too much damage to their sound and they just released a really good rather than truly classic album, and then they descended further into not having any ideas with an album about old horror movies, and then... yeah that's enough analysis. If they'd gotten Barlow in the band in time for Night of the Stormrider and figured out what to do with him I think they could have recorded a truly definitive metal album that people would actually talk about past the 00's.
__________________
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
|
|