When you want to relax a bit from hectic death metal listening binges, play Iced Earth, an American heavy metal band that combines influences from thrash metal, power metal, progressive metal and NWOBHM.The central figure of Iced Earth is rhythm guitarist and songwriter Jon Schaffer, who formed the band under the name Purgatory in Indiana in 1984. After moving to Florida and changing their name to Iced Earth, the group's Enter the Realm demo was popular enough that they released an eponymous debut LP with Century Media Records. Since then, the band has gone through numerous lineup changes. Vocalist Matt Barlow joined the band (after a three-year band hiatus following Night of the Stormrider) for Burnt Offerings, largely based on Dante's Inferno. Barlow's vocals proved extremely popular and he remained with the band for many years, eventually parting amicably with the band in June 2003 to pursue a career with the United States Department of Homeland Security. Conveniently, singer Tim 'Ripper' Owens soon left Judas Priest (to make room for returning original vocalist Rob Halford) and became Iced Earth's new vocalist. His first album with the band, The Glorious Burden, is an examination of many aspects of warfare and military figures who have shaped the modern world. Its topics range from the Declaration of Independence to 9/11 to Napoleon Bonaparte, and there are three songs dealing with the Battle of Gettysburg. Here we go...
Iced Earth [1991]
http://rapidshare.de/files/27502690/ICE-ICE.rar.html
Night Of The Stormrider [1992]
http://rapidshare.de/files/27503161/Iced_Earth_-_Night_of_the_Stormrider.rar.html
Burnt Offerings [1995]
http://rapidshare.de/files/27493009/Iced_Earth_-_Burnt_Offerings.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/27493317/Iced_Earth_-_Burnt_Offerings.part2.rar.html
The Dark Saga [1996]
http://rapidshare.de/files/27494818/Iced_Earth_-_Dark_Saga.rar.html
Horror Show [2001]
http://rapidshare.de/files/27500994/Iced_Earth_-_Horror_Show.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/27501469/Iced_Earth_-_Horror_Show.part2.rar.html
The Glorious Burden [2004]
http://rapidshare.de/files/27524288/Iced_Earth_-_The_Glorious_Burden.part1.rar.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/27524334/Iced_Earth_-_The_Glorious_Burden.part2.rar.html
