ICED EARTH — Iced Earth (review)

ICED EARTH — Iced Earth album cover Album · 1990 · US Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Stephen
If I was Gene Adam, then I'll probably gonna shut my internet down as every little hatred thing I read about Iced Earth is mainly about him, and yes I do have to agree at some point that Gene wasn't a good singer, but to say he's overly terrible, well I've heard worst. In fact, leaving the vocal out, Iced Earth did make a pretty good debut, a thrashy debut to be precise.

The title track, 'Iced Earth', is perhaps the weakest of the bunch, but basically a decent start for them, especially when the song evolved to a better stage near the end. 'Written On The Walls' showed their pgoressive side, but still with a classy thrasy riffs. 'Colors' riffs might be better, and the dynamic tempo enhanced the song, but the best part of this album came when 'Curse The Sky' started rolling. A perfect song and this track even worth the whole album alone.

The second half started moving upward with 'Life And Death' and 'Funeral' being the best. 'Solitude' is a nice short instrumental track and 'When The Night Falls' closed the album with a grand arrangement, putting an epic feel to it, and beside the furious thrash composition, the fine-tuned melodies inside is also gorgeous.

If you're a fan of classic thrash, this is a very good album I must say, and ignore the Gene Adam-bashing as you know you've heard worst and with great songs, great riffs, great solos, it didn't prevent me from labelling this a solid debut by the band. The production is quite poor though, so it's best to hunt for the remastered version, but if you're familiar with how thrash really sound in the 80s, then I don't think you're going to have problem with this.
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