ICED EARTH Plagues Of Babylon CD

Power metal gets a bad reputation from people who have never turned it up loud enough. Iced Earth have spent thirty-plus years being the corrective argument.

Plagues of Babylon, released in 2014, is the band deep in their Something Wicked mythology, Jon Schaffer's riffing as thick and relentless as ever, Stu Block handling vocal duties with enough range to keep things interesting across a record that swings between galloping heavy metal and genuinely epic storytelling. It's the kind of album that rewards people who actually read the lyric sheet and have strong opinions about album sequencing. Not background music. Not casual listening. Heavy metal with ambitions.

CD. Full-length album. 2014 release. US power and heavy metal.

Fans of: Demons & Wizards, Blind Guardian, Gamma Ray, Rage, Grave Digger.