ICED EARTH — Horror Show (review)

ICED EARTH — Horror Show album cover Album · 2001 · US Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
Horror Show finds Iced Earth doing a power metal runthrough of songs inspried by various horror movie monsters and villains. This is hardly unfamiliar territory when it comes to metal treatments, and by and large the standard Iced Earth sound is in play so the material doesn't really sound as dark or as spooky as it needs to be to support the supposed concept. There's a decent Iron Maiden cover in the form of Transylvania, though Iced Earth's style is just close enough to Maiden's that whilst on the one hand it sounds like a natural fit in their style, but on the other hand the cover feels faintly pointless.
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martindavey87 wrote:
more than 2 years ago
My friend lent me this album back in 2002 and that's what got me into Iced Earth! In fact, it was the song 'Transylvannia'... which at the time I didn't even know it was a cover haha! Definitely agree with the three-star rating though. They've done much better than this.

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