ICED EARTH — The Dark Saga (review)

ICED EARTH — The Dark Saga album cover Album · 1996 · US Power Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2.5/5 ·
Warthur
The Spawn comics were bold and brash affairs with a quintessentially mid-1990s art style which was lurid, over the top, and more than a little cheesy, to the point where you kind of had to be there to appreciate it.

I guess the same is true of Iced Earth's The Dark Saga, which some fans have praised as a high point of their career but just doesn't sound particularly outstanding or special to me. It's somewhat more straightforward and simple than the music presented on Burnt Offerings, and whilst some of the big chunky thrash metal riffs the band break out from time to time are fun, I enjoy them much better in an actual thrash metal context. One for fans of a slightly thashier style of power metal, I guess.
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