Iced Earth...No More - Part II

G. I. Drow Rants about the latest from Iced Earth. Includes side by side comparison (if any) between The Legendary Matt Barlow (Former IE Vocalist) and The Lacking Tim Owens (Current IE Vocalist)

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[da44e]

Say whatever you want but I can never get enough of Alive in Athens with Barlow...it just kills ass! \m/

[SoulCollectorMetal]

You picked a song that Barlow was MADE to sing. Tim being a screamer would never be able to copy that.

Just the same for songs like Ten Thousand Strong. Tim far outstrips Matt in that song. And Matt can play the song at concerts all he want but he can not hold notes at long as Tim can. Tim and Matt are far different singers and it's useless to compare them, and it useless to say Iced Earth as peaked. They made great and epic songs with Barlow and they still did it with Tim.

[samael1981]

You can shit on this guy all you idiots want. Unfortunately, it isn't going to change the fact that he is ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! Thankfully, The Crucible of Man, with Barlow back on vocals, is an absolute masterpiece!

[mkadragtonslayer]

Hey here's a message to the creater of this video. Barlow is back with I.E so, ICed Earth is truley back! He's going to be singing on the new CD The Crucible of Man Something Wicked Part 2.

[metaldave08096]

Oh cry me a fuckking river, ripper fuckking rules!!!!

[blacksabbathmetal]

Sorry this guy just...sucks. Other than the fact that this guy is a fat asshole, he does not know shit about a good singer or Iced Earth.

[gqman327]

To me, it is a prefernce. Barlow is more dramatic, Owens is more Metal / Hard Core. IE pieces were written more for Barlow. Even Glorious Burden, which, I have had the honor of hearing both singers on the album. Owens did a far better job on that one. Both are great singers. I think Schaefer should have written a new cd instead of re- recording the old ones.

It is beginning to be the same old shit from IE. The re recordings of FA are not better than the ones owens did. S.S.D.D.

[VogNhymn]

I LOVE Burnt Offerings and hated Horror Show.(the only Barlow album I did not love) IMHO Horror Show was the worst IE album ever.

Glorious Burden was a very mediocre album...I do love the Gettysburg Trilogy.

The new artwork does blow. But IE always had kinda bad artwork save for the original Burnt Offerings and Dark Saga and just maybe...maybe... Stormrider...

[PowerMetalWanderer]

I hated Glorious Burden. Not just because of Owens, he is not the worst vocalist in the world, just seems "technical" all the time and has no feeling, definetly nowhere near Barlow! It was also because of the subject matter, I could not care less about the American Military History.I like the latest album, sound is a bit different but I do like the album.The re recordings are unforgivable, the new recording is nothing compared to the amazing original version...nothing.

[PowerMetalWanderer]

Matt Barlows vocals on the last 3 songs on SWTWC give me chills lol. His best performance I believe...awesome.