ICED EARTH SURVIVOR 2014: Results -> Travel In Stygian wins AGAIN!

[Black Wizard]

Pure Evil
The Phantom Opera Ghost
Prophecy
Hold At All Costs

 

[Unknown One]

Birth of Dracula At All Costs

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

Desert Rain
High Water Mark

 

[Night Prowler]

Eliminated:
High Water Mark - 6 votes
Hold At All Costs - 5 votes

Promoted:
The Devil To Pay

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

Desert Rain
Overture
Something Wicked, Part 1
Invasion
Motivation of Man
Reflections
Execution
Cataclysm
Infiltrate & Assimilate
Retribution Through the Ages
Something Wicked, Part 2
Framing Armageddon
The Awakening

...what an exhausting filler of an album.

 

[Forostar]

I forgot how good A Charge to Keep is.
EDIT:
And the chorus of Ten Thousand Strong as well. Man!! Very good.

 

[Mosh]

Listening to the album now; I just got through that song and had the same thought.

 

[Night Prowler]

Listening to it too. Later I'm gonna make a shortened version of the album for future listening

 

[Mosh]

Everything except Something Wicked 1, A Charge To Keep, and Ten Thousand Strong. Pretty much exactly how I remember it, three songs that hint toward the album's potential mixed with filler ranging from mediocre to absolute garbage.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

If both the SW albums were cut down into one album, even featuring different lead singers on different tracks, it would still be far superior to either album on their own.

 

[Night Prowler]

Tracklist:
1. Motivation Of Man/Setian Massacre (with Barlow)
2. A Charge To Keep (with Barlow)
3. Ten Thousand Strong
4. Order Of The Rose
5. The Clouding (with Barlow)
6. Infiltrate & Assimilate
7. Retribution Through The Ages
8. Framing Armageddon
9. When Stars Collide (Born Is He)
44 minutes. Would've been a compact album IMO.

Dunno why all the hate for the title track, it's an awesome headbanger.

 

[Mosh]

Maybe, I only recall liking a couple songs on the other one too. I'll wait until I've heard it again to decide for sure though.

 

[Black Wizard]

Everything but 'Setian Massacre'.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

The Clouding is the single best song that Iced Earth have written post-Horror Show. It does not deserve 5 votes. Ya'll need your ears checked.

 

[Mosh]

The Clouding is one of the most plodding songs I've ever heard. Might be my least favorite on the album..the others suck but at least they're over quickly.

As for best post-Horror Show track, that has to be either The Devil to Pay or Come What May.

 

[Forostar]

Two votes for Shittian Mashed Potatoes?

 

[Black Wizard]

The Clouding is the single best song that Iced Earth have written post-Horror Show. It does not deserve 5 votes. Ya'll need your ears checked.

'The Clouding' is magnificent! I even think that the original recording with Ripper is great.

 

[Night Prowler]

Eliminated:
Invasion - 8 votes
Execution - 8 votes
Cataclysm - 8 votes
Something Wicked, Part 2 - 8 votes
The Awakening - 8 votes

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

Same stuff, still filler.

 

[Black Wizard]

Everything but 'Setian Massacre'.