Best Iced Earth Album?

1. Burnt Offerings
2. Stormrider
3. s/t

Besides these 3 and Horror Show, nothing by this band really stands out to me anymore. I hated The Glorious Burden with a passion, besides Ripper's performance.

SideShowDisaSter wrote:

Yah, Adam was he first vocalist. He was ok, but he did sound really weird. Doesn't bother me though, as I think the music is just downright great!

Oh yea, don't get me wrong, I still love the first I.E. album, even though the vocals took a little getting used to at first.

The debut was the first I.E. album I heard, even though it was a few years after it was released... I was at a CD show/swap meet and found it (still in the long box!) mixed in with a bunch of other death metal CDs for only two bucks. I had read some good stuff about 'em in a couple of zines so I figured that two bucks was cheap enough to risk checking'em out. Am I ever glad I did, because they have become one of my favorite bands in the years since!

I bought "The Blessed and The Damned" which I guess is a greatest hits kinda deal. Two discs a million songs.....

I couldn't get into it. I tried and tried and tried..... what the blazes am I missing???? Burning Times ROCKED.... !!

But every other tune has some 40 year introduction... boring...... I was very disappointed.....

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I maintain that Blessed and the Damned is a poor introduction to IE. Although I do think there's some good stuff to get into there, it does come off as a bit of an odd mix and match. You're better off trying an album, possibly Dark Saga or Something Wicked.

The best introduction to IE is the 3CD version of Alive In Athens. It's simply amazing.

I had never heard of Iced Earth and stumbled upon a review of the band and decided to give them a try. Couldn't decide so I bought all of their cd's at once (just a couple of months ago). Listening to them back to back I would say Night Of The Stormrider and Something Wicked This Way Comes are my favs but I really like The Glorious Burden also...so I am glad I bought all of them. I listen to them quite a bit lately. In fact right now....

Went with The Dark Saga.
The first Iced Earth album i bought, and it blew me away!!( still does)

Smindas & Eyesore

will try another disc.... I've just heard so much positive about 'em and I'm sitting here going..... well ?!??!!?!?

will try another one.... unless someone wants to burn me a cdr.....

SWTWC
Dark Saga
Days of Purgatory
Alive in Athens
Burnt Offerings
Horror Show
The Glorious Burden