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Cool story indeed. :)

You know, I wish Risk had been a no. 1 hit.  As long as Dave doesn't get a no. 1 album/single, he'll keep trying half-heartedly to make a few poppy songs.  See: Coming Home, 1000 Times Goodbye, Die Dead Enough, the remake of À Tout le Monde, Bodies, The Hardest Part of Letting Go, etc.  If Risk...

Gamma Ray: Somewhere Out in Space, Power Plant, No World Order at least.  The live album Hell Yeah: The Awesome Foursome is a good compilation too. Blind Guardian: All of them pretty much, but start out with Nightfall in Middle Earth, Somewhere Far Beyond, and Imaginations from the Other Side. ...

I love how he's a "senior member" there. :D

Helloween is one band that has really begun to disappoint me in recent years.  The last album really didn't impress me much, and even live, they're getting really repetitive.  I saw two Helloween shows with half a year in between, and in addition to them using almost the same set list, Andi even...

Which is strange, because this is not really a "dark" album like AMOLAD or The X Factor.

My thoughts exactly.  My rankings would go like this nowadays: Starblind Isle of Avalon --- Coming Home The Man Who Would Be King Mother of Mercy El Dorado, The Final Frontier, The Talisman, The Alchemist, and When the Wild Wind Blows I find very hard to rank against each other.  I'll just...

No need, I agree with all but the last.

I know, hence the smiley.  But I prefer to live in denial/fantasy: Gettysburg is its own album and The Glorious Burden never happened. ;) Except for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUvNMunHtN8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPiW82Lxcvo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsVdau231RQ +...

I agree with you to a certain extent, Perun, though I would still say Gettysburg is among the best Iced Earth songs.  Not the best, though, and at least your examples I like more.  And the Something Wicked trilogy beats the Gettysburg trilogy hands down. Gettysburg is on a different disc than...

Megadeth

No, science says I'm

Sorry, disagree.  The chorus is annoying no matter what he sings.  But I agree on the second point, leave the backing vocals to Blind Guardian where they belong (and work!).

My version of the album has two recordings (normal and acoustic) of When the Eagle Cries.  'Nuff said.

That clip once more reminded me how Fear of the Dark is a totally different song in the dark, as opposed to sunlight. :) I don't know about you, but I love the feeling of not knowing which song is next or how far the gig has gone.  The 2010 Final Frontier tour blew me away completely partly...

Darth Vader

I waited five years before I saw Iced Earth live (and it was a fantastic gig), so I can't imagine how they can ever have "sucked". ;)  But, it was literally a completely different band in 2004, only Schaffer remains from that line-up.  If they played a lot of songs from TGB I can imagine the set...

It's possible that my perspective was skewed by the long wait for Maiden and I'll admit I've seen worse bands.  When I saw Iced Earth this summer, there was a punk band before them on the stage, and since I had managed to secure a place at the barrier, I wasn't going to go away for their set. ...

I think this alone qualifies this whole thread to be merged with the blasphemy thread. ;)

Trust me, I'd rather be in front of the stage with no band playing than a terrible band playing.  ;) Case in point: Avenged Sevenfold opening for Maiden in 2008.