my experience with them has been somewhat poisoned, much as I love IE, much as I love Schaffer as a musician. Seems like he might have his conviction thrown out pretty soon, but the damage has already been done.
@Metren: I feel similarly. It's a fantastic composition but the last time I listened to it I started hearing the lyrics in a different way. Now there are some Iced Earth songs that just draw me back to Schaffer's ideology and
Varg is and will forever be a major dingus, but yes, his writings and videos were both hilarious simply for the sake of morbid curiosity if nothing else
What the Hell have I got myself into here? Where to begin? I guess I could go the obvious route and compare the miserable experience of listening to this to an obscure form of slow and excruciating torture? Or I could go the humorous route and compare it to ordering pizza delivery in Paraguay. Fuck it. 2 disks, 4 songs, 90+ minutes. Let's do both.
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"FUCK!!! You're the fucking 5th person asking me in an interview about the woman in the bathtub?The problem is that I AM the fucking person in the bathtub, and I AM a fucking MAN, for fuck's sake! I hate you all!" ~ Herr Morbid
Damn these guys take their time putting out new shit, but so far its been worth the wait. Hoping they keep up the superb quality from their previous two
Who in his/her right mind cares about lyrics in this sort of music? You can't understand it without a lyric sheet, anyway.
I dont always listen to or read the lyrics but it happens. If you click the utube link above theres lyrics. And this would probably been better for me if they had done a Sigur Ros.
Goddammit! This album is the best power metal album I've heard in the past few years! Very uplifting, fun, and a great album to sing along too, reminds me of stuff like Sabaton!