THEY ARE BACK!!!!!!!!!!

Review Score: (10/10)
First of all, I love iced earth A LOT. One of my favorite bands ever. When i heard Matthew Barlow quit, i was frickin devestated. I just couldn't believe that someone with an amazing voice as his would just quit. ANYWAY, not only did he quit but he also caused album production to be pushed back a few months. The Glorious Burden was pushed back to Janurary 13th, so to tie the fans over until then, Iced Earth has released this EP/Single featuring 4 songs with new singer Tim Owens, who replaced Halford for judas priest. halford has joined back, so tim went with iced earth!

Please note that this cd has 4 songs even though amazon says it only has 3. now onto the songs:

Track One is The Reckoning (Don't Tread On Me). This song rules, a awesome thrash metal rythm guitar thanks to Jon. It starts out with the chorus, which sounds like a church choir then it goes into the blazing guitar part and you can really hear the bass, it rules. Then you hear Tim Owens come in with this very high picthed shrill. Not a power metal one but one kinda like chuck does on Death's Sound Of Perseverance.

Track Two is When The Eagle Cires (Unplugged). This sound is acoustic and really shows all Tim's voice. The chorus is tim saying, "when the eagle cries" with some really cool acoustic guitars playing. When the chorus comes around again, he says it with even more expression and even louder. Then there is this AWESOME latin soudning acoustic guitar solo.

Track 3 is Valley Forge and my favorite here! Got a really cool chorus and some very very awesome lead guitar. has two solos in it, one in the middle of the song and one at the end when tim is saying the chorus.

Track 4 is classic iced earth. As with a lot of their songs, it starts off slow and acoustic then turns heavy. The last half of the song is the best part because it has acoustic guitar with heavy guitar and another guitar doing a great solo.

All in all, this is a good little cd. If this is what the Glorious Burden is going to sound like then I must say it's going to be Iced Earth's best album. Tim is a very excellent replacement for matt, even though matt will always be in my top 5 singers of all time.

buy this. now

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