To Heavy for Power Metal. To thrash for power metal and to melodic for thrash… the best of both! Iced Earth is criminally under rated. Iced Earth brings in heavy complex galloping rhythms with amazing melodies and vocals (most of the time). Let it be said here that Jon Schaffer is one of if not the best rhythm player in all of metal. For the uninitiated you can think of Iced Earth as Iron Maiden on steroids. As a young metal head they combined everything I loved about Maiden with the heaviness Metallica and then some. Although they have had a number of line up changes including vocalist the heart has always been Jon. Unlike a lot of metal bands there is often a lot of emotion in the music. Matt Barlow makes this even more prominent. Considered the classic vocalist of Iced Earth, he is absolutely amazing at giving emotion to the songs. Rather anger or sadness, Matt has fantastic delivery. Although the band now has Stu Block on vocals, he does an amazing job at sounding like Matt and ripper both with bringing his own uniqueness. Iced Earth is easily in my top 5 favorite bands. If you are a sucker of concept albums then that’s one more reason to listen to IE, being that most of their albums are either concept albums, have trilogies, or themes. Here’s Iced Earth’s Albums Ranked!

How this works; Songs are rated on a 5 star rating with each star having a value that is averaged together for the album rating. Average album rating will equal the band’s rating

1 star=0, I hate it! The world would be better off without this.

2 stars=25, I don’t like it but it could be worse

3 stars= 50, decent song but not special

4 stars=75, good song but is missing something that might make it amazing

5 stars=100, Amazing!

Live albums, demos, cover albums and EP’s are not included.

Note: Popular doesn’t mean great and importance doesn’t mean it’s good either. A chart topping song only means it is watered down enough for a mainstream audience

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