Iced Earth's Reviews
The Glorious Burden (Average Rating: 8.86 out of 10)
"If Need Be...We'll Die Free!" (Rated this album with 10 out of 10)
Reviewed by
djhexane
from Ohio, USofA
This is my favourite Iced Earth release by far. Most of it is about American History, so If you want to get all patriotic for our country and rock out at the same time, pop this album in. They start off the album with a hardrocking version of the star spangled banner and launch right into Declaration Day, a five minute song of epic proportions about the signing of the declaration of independence and the following war for freedom. Later comes a very emtional rocking ballad, "When the Eagle Cries" about the September 11th terrorist attacks on our country and they sing about how we came together and though we wanted instant revenge we waited and calculated a more realistic and winning plot for redemption.The best part of this album (on Disc two) and on disc one of the one disc version is the Gettysburg Trillogy. In three songs (totalling about a half hour) they sing and play the whole battle of Gettysburg, the most infamous battle of the Civil War. One of the most epic and just plain awesome conceptual tracks I have ever heard. Really puts me in the mood to watch some Cold Moutain. Anyways, Tim "Ripper" Owens really kicks butt on this disc. I wish he would hang around for another. I would love a concept album by Iced Earth on the who civil war. That would be sweet!
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