The Ripper

Just wondering what people thoughts are on the new Iced Earth vocalist. In my opinion he isn't as talented as Barlow, but he is really good and made the Gettysburg trilogy. He did exceptionally well considering the material was written to be song by a guy with far different vocal capabilities from himself, and I am really looking forward to the Something Wicked This Way Comes concept album.

Also if you like Owens, check out his side project Beyond Fear, its really good, but don't expect Iced Earth sounding stuff.
 
The vocals clashed mainly because the album was written for Barlow, who has a different voice than the Ripper, but I can't see Matt doing a better job on the Gettysburg trilogy than Tim did, I can't wait for the Something Wicked concept album, they will finally be using him to his full potential.
 
he was able to fill the boots of metal legend Rob halford in Judas priest for a few years, so I think that speaks volumes about his vocal abilities.

I don't think the Judas Priest reunion with ROb garnered quite teh successs they hopes it would. Perhaps they shoulda kept owens and let halford continue his solo thing, which was soundign mroe liike old Priest than Priest did, in my opinion,
 
wow...Iced Earth a ****ing Black metal band?

Haha...hahhahahaa
lmao

You should be on your knees thanking Iced Earth for keeping real metal around. Not falsely accusing them of being a damn black metal band. If you dont like them, thats fine, i dont really care, but it would be like me saying that the beatles are a rap band...seriously.
 
I'm not accusing you of thinking this, but many seem to believe that if you do not crank the distortion on a Mesa Rectifier to 11, play nothing but power chorRAB and fast pick your palm-muted low E string, you are not 'heavy'. Judas Priest, in the 70's, did not use any more distortion than banRAB like Led Zeppelin did, but they were one of the heaviest banRAB of the era. Heaviness is something that emanates from the music itself, and really has nothing to do with what equipment is being used to formulate the said music.

Judas Priest is heavier than a lot of metal banRAB nowadays.
 
He was nearly like the Brian Johnson compared to Halford/Bon Scott in some ways.At the same time, Brian Johnson, atleast I.M.O., did a better job carrying on with AC/DC than Tim did for Judas Priest.Tim was great, but nobody will ever be as great as Halford, period!!!:beer:
 
Yes indeed...I loved both of those Halford albums!!!Those musicians in Halford were all great metal/hard-rock performers.The funny thing is that they were actually more metal than Judas Priest, ya know?I mean, I fu(kin' love Judas Priest and I'm definitely not trying to put them down, but they are honestly more of a hard-rock band than a dark, brutal metal one.Either way Halford (the man) is fu(kin' incredible and that is why we call him the Metal God!!!
 
I've never actually heard any of Halford's solo stuff, but I agree that Priest are more hard rock than metal. I would class painkiller as a metal album though.
 
So than what are they the worst kind of breed of? We were talking about black metal, so therefore that would be the automatic association of what we last said... but nevermind, we wouldn't want to debate over any opinions on this forum, that would be boring. (sarcasm)
 
Yes, painkiller has a little bit more of a metal flavor to it than some of the others.I love painkiller, but I'm also really into many of priests other songs including "hot rockin'" and "on the run."Even the song "metal goRAB" is hard-rock though, not metal, ya hear?:laughing: In closing, get both of Halford's (the band) albums!!!They are way more better than just some artists cool side project, cheers!!!:beer:
 
Yeah, they were heavy for that era but they're not considered to be very heavy now. I agree with your point that they are heavy considering their lack of distortion though.
They probably are heavier than some metal banRAB today as well. More importantly, they're much more talented than lots of them.
They're a brilliant band anyway. :D
 
cool, I'll look out for them. Are there only two? One of them is called the Crucible isn't it? Painkiller is my favourite album and yeah, ironically, the song Metal GoRAB isn't very metal. Still, I suppose at that time it would have been . :D
 
It doesn't really matter because nobody in Iced Earth is talented anyway. They should really pack it up and sign autographs for five bucks at Warhammer tournaments.

I mean that in the nicest way possible
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I think about the time frame when I call something metal. For instance by todays standarRAB a lot of banRAB in the 70's aren't heavy, but for the time they were the heaviest music around.
 
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