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September 2001 Vol. 5 No. 10
 
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Artist Iced Earth
Title Horror Show
Label Century Media
Reviewer Richard Proplesch
Rating
Like so many American metal acts, Iced Earth have developed an immense and loyal following overseas (a gold album in Greece, of all places) while simply enduring as cult obscurities in their own backyard. Yet, founding father Jon Schaffer has seldom swayed from the band’s fantastic, operatic-metal allegories (tho’ more Queensryche than Queen), that have now become influential to the new wellspring of sword-and-sorcery groups. In response, Iced Earth’s sixth studio album (recorded at Tampa’s Morrisound Studios) veers towards a harsher terrain, following a loose conceptual thread pertaining to classic horror figures such as “Jeckyl & Hyde,” “Dracula,” and “The Phantom Opera Ghost.” With the addition of a technical-oriented, thrashy rhythm team (ex-Death, Sadus bassist Steve DiGiorgio and ex- Death, Demons & Wizards drummer Richard Christy), Iced Earth’s latest dares to combine a doomy crunch with a prog metal perspective that should gratify their European fans and introduce some new stateside ones.


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