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The artwork is superb and you can just tell what sort of music lies beneath the tattered rags of the evil mummy on the front cover. Hard, uncool, old-skool metal. And it is a bloody good thing that somebody has cared enough to keep the cheesy metal genre alive. I grew up on stuff like this! Piece of Mind was the first metal album I bought and it was fantastic. Believe me you wont be disappointed by Something Wicked This Way Comes. It kicks off with Burning Times. It's a grower but when it finally gets you, you can't resist its grinding force and thumping chorus. Cracking opener. Melancholy comes next and it is a ballad of sorts. From a dreary beginning it transforms into an angry beast. Great chorus. No holds barred Maiden-esque metal. It sounds a little like Revelations. Disciple of the Lie comes next and you can almost see James Hetfield frowning into the mic as the sharp, rasping riffage tears your ears asunder. Another 'ballad' follows. Watching Over Me is much the same fare as Melancholy but it still remains a great tune.
A lot of great tracks unwind thereafter. If I went through them all I'd be here all day. I'll just say that the final trilogy is excellent, if a little too primitive in the metal stakes. It really gets to the nitty-gritty of Maiden-like playing and you have to be into this type of music to really appreciate it. For me, The Birth of the Wicked is the best track on the album and should have been the end track instead of The Coming Curse.
All that said, a definite 5 star effort, if only for daring to stick to a genre that has a diminishing number of followers. You wont find this music in the charts and the earlier Iced Earth albums are slightly more difficult to get, although they are still around. I have only heard this album as it was recommended among these very pages. I have just ordered Horror Show and Night of the Stormrider so expect a review of both of those coming soon.
If you like your metal pounding, galloping, filled with stories about ancient egypt and mystic folklore and far from nu, then you will LOVE SWTWC.
You wont be boasting about them to your mates, though.
so all in all if you like old school maiden, helloween, hades and black sabbath (the dio years) you'll like this album, you could do a lot worse ala disturbed, MCR, trivium and dragon force.
'Burning times'-easily one of the best tracks on the album,displaying all of iced earths qualitys in one song, and execllent piece of song writing from vocalist Matt Barlow and guitarist Jon Schaffer.Next up is the sad and depressing 'Melancholy' a song about jesus christ and also about Jon's life,with very thoughtful lyrics.'Disciples of the lie'-a metallica-esque piece of hatred and snarling powerful vocals.(throughout the album the vocals are as fantastic as ever with Matt's unique Blaze Bayley style of singing).This is another highlight of the album 'Watching over me' another sad song about Jons friend who died in a car crash some years earlier,depressing acoustic verse with powerful iron maiden style chorus,next is the average iced earth song 'stand alone' great guitars and cool main riff.Next is the calm 'consequences'.'My own savior' is next,an amazing thrashing angry song,fitting the mood of the 'Burnt offerings' album very nicely,'Reaping stone' is a cool song,very slow in places with a chugging bass leading the way,with an unbelieve middle section that will blow you away (with matt singing like rob halford)Another maiden sounding track,the instrumental '1776'.Next is the uplifting 'Blessed are you' a song dedicated to the fans,another song with the maiden influence.next is the major highlight,the 'something wicked trilogy' 'Prophecy' starting off slow and depressing,later with an incoming megadeth style riff and lyrics.'Birth of the wicked'-the best track on the album sounds like something off blaze's 'silicon messiah' album,great vocals and lead guitar that rips open your mind!,lastly is the closer 8mins+ epic 'The coming curse' a good ending to an album with a nice piano intor and choir closing,in a way a very evil album,in a way a very uplifting album,anyone who likes maiden or metallica should buy this as it is a sound that is inbetween both of them,iced earth rule! buy this now!
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