Iced Earth (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Iced Earth
Type = studio
Artist = Iced Earth


Released = November 1990 (Europe) February 1991 (USA)
Recorded = 1986-1990
Genre = Thrash metal
Length = 44:14
Label = Century Media
Producer = Tom Morris
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifwxq85ldde link]
*The Metal Observer rating-10|8.5 [http://www.metal-observer.com/articles.php?lid=1&sid=1&id=551 link]
Last album = "Enter the Realm"
(1989)
This album = "Iced Earth"
(1990)
Next album = "Night of the Stormrider"
(1991)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = Remastered Album Cover

"Iced Earth" is the eponymous debut album by American heavy metal band Iced Earth. It was released in November 1990 internationally and February 1991 in North America. The original release of this album had three different covers (a worldwide cover, a European cover and a Japanese cover). This album was Mike McGill's only album with Iced Earth, as well as the last for singer Gene Adam. Like the album's successor "Night of the Stormrider", "Iced Earth" follows a more traditional thrash metal sound, rather than the power metal direction the band would follow after Matt Barlow had joined. Iced Earth would stick to the power metal formula until Barlow left the band, with his replacement Tim Owens singing in a style reminiscent of both genres.

Iced Earth's first three albums (this album, "Night of the Stormrider", and "Burnt Offerings") were remastered in 2001, and each had a new cover.

Track listing

tracklist
lyrics_credits = yes
music_credits = yes

title1 = Iced Earth
lyrics1 = Jon Schaffer
music1 = Schaffer
length1 = 5:22

title2 = Written on the Walls
lyrics2 = Gene Adam
music2 = Adam, Randall Shawver, Schaffer, Dave Abell
length2 = 6:06

title3 = Colors
lyrics3 = Schaffer
music3 = Shawver, Schaffer
length3 = 4:50

title4 = Curse the Sky
lyrics4 = Schaffer
music4 = Shawver, Schaffer
length4 = 4:41

title5 = Life and Death
lyrics5 = Schaffer
music5 = Shawver, Schaffer
length5 = 6:07

title6 = Solitude
lyrics6 = (instrumental)
music6 = Shawver, Schaffer
length6 = 1:44

title7 = The Funeral
lyrics7 = (instrumental)
music7 = Shawver, Schaffer
length7 = 6:15

title8 = When the Night Falls
lyrics8 = Schaffer
music8 = Schaffer
length8 = 9:01

Credits

*Gene Adam − vocals
*Jon Schaffer − rhythm guitar, backing vocals, producer, design
*Randall Shawver − lead guitar
*Dave Abell − bass
*Mike McGill − drums

Info

* "Colors" is about the TV novel also named Colors. This novel is about gangsters.
* Every song on this album except "Curse The Sky" was redone for 1997's Days of Purgatory. For that release, "Written on the Walls" was given new lyrics and renamed "Cast In Stone". Despite not being re-recorded, Iced Earth continued playing "Curse The Sky" in future concerts.