It's time for the mandatory album Survivor!
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ICED EARTH ALBUMS SURVIVOR 2014: Results -> Night Of The Stormrider wins!
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It's time for the mandatory album Survivor!
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
Framing Armageddon
Crucible of Man
Crucible of Man
MrKnickerbocker
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The two oldest and the newest.
Unknown One
I see the ghost of navigators.
Glorious Burden (Gettysburg doesn't save it), Framing Armageddon, Crucible of Man.
And yeah the farces have already begun in this survivor.
And yeah the farces have already begun in this survivor.
MrKnickerbocker
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NOTE: my votes in no way reflect the quality of the songs. If Days of Purgatory were an option, it would be in my top 4. I'm voting on the albums as recorded. As an album, Iced Earth sounds like garbage to me because the lead singer is awful. Night of the Stormrider has a better singer, but the recordings on those first two albums do not do the songs justice. Barlow does that.
MrKnickerbocker
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Your over-focusing on my focus does not do the songs justice.
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
'Night of the Stormrider' is a great album and Iced Earth's best. Metal doesn't always need a great vocalist to sound great.
Stardust
Rainmaker
Tell that any screamo-metal band. Of course, they all lose in having real feeling in their music. Sure, you get pumped and it sounds awesome. But no metal band except a select few make me feel that they actually put time and work into their material. Iced Earth however, is NOT one of these select few.
MrKnickerbocker
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Without getting into another ridiculous "vocals vs. instruments" discussion, I'll just say: I could not disagree with you more.
I literally have no idea what you're saying here.
Why discount the work of an entire group when you don't enjoy the performance of one member? If I wrote off albums/bands because I didn't like the singer (or guitarist or any other member), I would be seriously limiting the amount of music I listen to.
Albums now?
Black Wizard
Pleb Hunter
James LaBrie, average vocalist. Dream Theater sound great.
James Hetfield, terrible vocalist. Metallica sound great.
Dave Mustaine, can't sing. Megadeth sound great.
Chuck Billy, can't sing. Testament sound great.
Max Cavalera, can't sing. Sepultura sounded great.
Lawyered.
MrKnickerbocker
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If I do not like a singer, I do not listen to a band. It's as simple as that. I find no point in wasting my time listening to a band with a vocalist I do not like, I'd be trying to enjoy something while actively trying to ignore something else. Doesn't make any sense to me. I realize I am a complete minority with this opinion, but oh well, vocals are the main thing I hear in any band. That's how I listen to music.
The difference is: those singers perfectly fit the music of those bands. With Iced Earth's early albums, both through deduction and literal evidence from the band leader, the music is clearly demanding a certain vocal sound that the singers are incapable of delivering. Jon Schaffer agrees with me. Lawyered.
Detective Beauregard
Leviathan of Doggerland
Last three albums.
Dream Theater would sound so much better with Russell Allen.
I wouldn't call Hetfield "awful," either. Average, yes.
Dream Theater would sound so much better with Russell Allen.
I wouldn't call Hetfield "awful," either. Average, yes.
MrKnickerbocker
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"He's just the kind of man you hear about
Who leaves his family for an easy out
They never saw the signs, he never said a word
He couldn't take another day...
STOP ACTING LIKE A BITCH AND GROW SOME BAWWWWWLLLLLLSS!
I heard he took one in the FAAAAAAAAAACE!
IN. THE. FAAAAAAAAAAAAACE."
Debut and Framing. Couldn't decide between Dystopia and Plagues.
Unknown One
I see the ghost of navigators.
Crucible has Come What May. Framing Armageddon has... uh Ten Thousand Strong?