Ahmed
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GenreJust interested to see what people here mainly classify Iced Earth as. I know they have elements from traditional Heavy Metal, Power Metal and Thrash Metal, but what do you mainly think of them as? Personally, I tend to think of Iced Earth as a Power Metal Band.
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Kanadwen
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Just a plain up mixture for me, but if I had to pick one, I'd say Progressive Metal.
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The Sexiest Metalhead
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I'd say heavy, or dark power. It's hard to choose really.
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NightCrawler
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I would say Power Thrash Metal.
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Set Abominae
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Prog thrash.
When I describe the band's sound to people who've never heard them before, I tend to say,
"Imagine a mixture of Iron Maiden lyrics/vocals, RTL and MOP Metallica/RIP and PSBWB MegaDeth guitar sound."
That tends to get the point across pretty well.
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Feaněs
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Well I would say a mixture of trash, power and heavy metal, but I would prefer power metal, I always saw IE as a power metal band...
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Aggelos Poneros
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Nothing.
I actually hate genres. It's like putting things in boxes.
I also think that it's almost imposible to mark one band as something.
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Dante
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Power Thrash Metal!
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Kanadwen
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| Aggelos Poneros wrote: | Nothing.
I actually hate genres. It's like putting things in boxes.
I also think that it's almost imposible to mark one band as something. |
I see what you're thinking I kinda feel the same way, but you do agree that IE falls under the general category of METAL right?  I don't think music stores would like it very much if they gave up genres.
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paranoidmexican
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HEAVY FUCKING METAL
there, thats the one genre they belong in
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Thorn
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Heavy metal 
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Tainted Innocence
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POP! (now i'm going to get banned)
haha,
symphonic thrash?
psh,
i'm horrible with genres...
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The Wicked One
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| paranoidmexican wrote: | HEAVY FUCKING EPIC METAL
there, thats the one genre they belong in |
fixed 
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Feaněs
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| Aggelos Poneros wrote: | Nothing.
I actually hate genres. It's like putting things in boxes.
I also think that it's almost imposible to mark one band as something. |
damn she is right, actually its a stupid thing, try to put IE in some category, cause there IS no category for Iced Earth
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Aggelos Poneros
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| Kanadwen wrote: | | Aggelos Poneros wrote: | Nothing.
I actually hate genres. It's like putting things in boxes.
I also think that it's almost imposible to mark one band as something. |
I see what you're thinking I kinda feel the same way, but you do agree that IE falls under the general category of METAL right? I don't think music stores would like it very much if they gave up genres. |
Sure, metal it is, but I think you know what I've meant...
| Feaněs wrote: | | Aggelos Poneros wrote: | Nothing.
I actually hate genres. It's like putting things in boxes.
I also think that it's almost imposible to mark one band as something. |
damn she is right, actually its a stupid thing, try to put IE in some category, cause there IS no category for Iced Earth |
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TeaAndCrumpets
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Powerthrash is what I have them down as on my iPod <_<
Yes I made it up.
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Shorty
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Actually they are American Power Metal, power metal with many thrash influences
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Set Abominae
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I have them set as "Metal; Power Metal; Progressive Metal; Thrash Metal" in WMP
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Tainted Innocence
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"HEAVYASSFUCKINGMETALWITHEPICVOCALS" - i win.
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Kanadwen
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progressive metal in mah playlists
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Feaněs
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its clearly SCHAFFER-metal!
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Unison
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| Feaněs wrote: | | its clearly SCHAFFER-metal! |
YES! I can work with that...
But realistically, Iced Earth is one of the bands that are hard to classify. I like the ideas of Powerthrash, etc.....
They certainly are not Power Metal...
They aren't quite thrash...
They are a Heavy Metal band, with a lot of Thrash influence, and the smoothness found in Power Metal, for good measure.
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TeaAndCrumpets
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As I see it, they combine Power Metal vocals with Thrash music and Heavy Metal lyrics.
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Unison
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I agree, to an extent. Though, even their Thrashiest songs aren't quite.....Thrash -grunt-
But I do agree..
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