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Iced Earth is an American heavy metal band that combines power metal and speed metal/thrash metal genres in its music. The band was formed by Jon Schaffer, the lead songwriter and rhythm guitarist, in Tampa, Florida in 1984. The original name of the band was Purgatory but was then changed to Iced Earth.
Iced Earth’s music is often described as Iron Maiden combined with 80’s thrash metal. The most distinctive element of the band’s sound is the stuttering right-hand gallop of rhythm guitarist Jon Schaffer, which sounds something like the ‘eighth-note, two-sixteenth-notes’ gallop made famous by Iron Maiden’s bass player/songwriter Steve Harris (in such songs as “Run to the Hills”, “The Trooper”, and “Caught Somewhere in Time”), varied rhythmically. Overtop of this gallop are typically laid strong melodic hooks, sometimes doubled by two guitars playing in harmony. The vocals are often high-pitched, but express a full range, while the rhythm section uses thrash and power metal techniques such as double-bass-drumming to keep the speed and energy high. Iced Earth’s drummer is known for his frequent use of drags and flams on the bass drum.
Today, Jon is the only original member in the band, having changed multiple guitarists, drummers, and vocalists. The two most recognized vocalists of the band are Matt Barlow and Tim “ripper” Owens, the former vocalist of Judas Priest. Matt Barlow ended up marrying Jon’s sister, making Matt the brother-in-law of Jon Schaffer.
Iced Earth’s music is often described as Iron Maiden combined with 80’s thrash metal. The most distinctive element of the band’s sound is the stuttering right-hand gallop of rhythm guitarist Jon Schaffer, which sounds something like the ‘eighth-note, two-sixteenth-notes’ gallop made famous by Iron Maiden’s bass player/songwriter Steve Harris (in such songs as “Run to the Hills”, “The Trooper”, and “Caught Somewhere in Time”), varied rhythmically. Overtop of this gallop are typically laid strong melodic hooks, sometimes doubled by two guitars playing in harmony. The vocals are often high-pitched, but express a full range, while the rhythm section uses thrash and power metal techniques such as double-bass-drumming to keep the speed and energy high. Iced Earth’s drummer is known for his frequent use of drags and flams on the bass drum.
Today, Jon is the only original member in the band, having changed multiple guitarists, drummers, and vocalists. The two most recognized vocalists of the band are Matt Barlow and Tim “ripper” Owens, the former vocalist of Judas Priest. Matt Barlow ended up marrying Jon’s sister, making Matt the brother-in-law of Jon Schaffer.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Horror Show
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The Dark Saga
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Night of the Stormrider
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SelenaSweety wrote:
just got this Artist's ringtones at www.itsflycell.com. I Died for You is my favorite, love it!
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blitox wrote:
Al fin en Chile!!! \m/
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Cousin_Eddy wrote:
Brilliant!
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Steve6-6-6 wrote:
I think Melancholy, I Died For You, Watching Over Me or The Hunter are very overrated songs by people, and many of them after listening to these songs (except Hunter) just close in the circle of IE semi-ballad songs. Greely and Adam's era was a piece of good work
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Ollemann wrote:
Where the fuck is Burnt Offerings? It's their best, followed by Night of the Stormrider and Horror Show.
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Steve6-6-6 wrote:
WTF? Only the tittle song from debute in top 15? ... sad.
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RonenKohavi wrote:
The power is amazing! http://www.last.fm/music/Ronen%2520Kohavi?ac=ronen
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Oshan5 wrote:
Shake Us!
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Shandified wrote:
DEATH TO FALSE RAM! DO NOT ENTRY! Vote up the Swedish Ram brothers and let us crush all others with the IRON FIST OF METAL!
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metalkoffe wrote:
It doesn't get much more metal than Stormrider [2]
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Carnassial1 wrote:
Cheers everyone! You can vote for "Power metal" in "Favorite Heavy metal Sub-genre Poll" on my profile page Carnassial1 It's over 2300 votes now. I'll be glad if you take a shot.
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ClecioWilliam wrote:
I dont like :D
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theEldritch wrote:
It doesn't get much more metal than Stormrider
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laurarias_c wrote:
I love Jon Schaffer <3
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Eduardo_Bardo wrote:
Awesome band!Please come to Costa Rica!!
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FjordSweetFjord wrote:
which is why you buy "days of purgatory" with Barlow singing all the old songs with re-recorded music, really does justice to those great early songs.
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Colony666 wrote:
LOL!
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tr00erthantr00 wrote:
Everything before Barlow kinda blows cause the vocals are horrible.
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Luiz_Folk wrote:
Waiting for us in Brazil !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Chromatic- wrote:
Ten Thousand Strong is such an awesome song!
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Café Iguana, Monterrey N.L., Monterrey, Mexico
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Bulldog Cafe, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
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Feb
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Via Funchal, São Paulo, Brazil
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News
ICED EARTH TO HEADLINE HAMMERFEST 2010
22 Sep 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/icedearth
ICED EARTH will be headlining Hammerfest in the UK in March of 2010. The band is very much looking forward to coming back to the UK!!Visit the Hammerfest WebsitePurchase Hammerfest Tickets
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angstraum and XDMedicate added Iced Earth to their libraries. 4 hours ago
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Julimonada tagged Iced Earth with ‘usa’. 4 hours ago
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Varsun tagged Iced Earth with thrash metal and power metal. 4 hours ago
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ShdwDiamon, GiwrgosXatzh, monsieur_noir and 6 other people added Iced Earth to their libraries. 5 hours ago
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darth_daemon tagged Iced Earth with thrash metal, heavy metal and power metal. yesterday morning
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Pyciek tagged Iced Earth with ‘power metal’. yesterday morning
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