The first Iced Earth song you've ever heard?

Aggelos Poneros · The first Iced Earth song you've ever heard?

I remember it was Vengeance Is Mine...
And second was Iced Earth.

Shorty

The first songs I ever heard were: Mystical End (thats the reason why its my fav IE song) and Desert Rain

Dante

1. Watching Over Me
2. Pure Evil
3. Travel In Stygian

3 Great songs.

paranoidmexican

Dante's Inferno (Alive in Athens)

The Wicked One

birth of the wicked

Stormrider

Sometime around the release of Night Of The Stormrider. I had never heard of IE before and when I saw the album in the store that day, I knew it was going to be awesome, and that was judging solely on the album cover artwork. So basically it was the WHOLE album that got me into the band but to get technical the first song I heard obviously was track 1 Angels Holocaust.

The Sexiest Metalhead

Stand Alone was my first i believe. I stole the cd from my brother and listen to it, and for some reason I listened to that song first.

Sandra - Dark Saga -

Angels Holocaust

The Wicked One

hey Sandra, its been awhile.

Black_Sheep

Dracula. Years ago, and i didn't like it really much in the first place Very Happy

...and then years later i listened to Something Wicked This Way Comes and realised that Iced Earth is one of the best bands there is Smile

Tainted Innocence

uhhh,
i think it was damien.
followed by the rest of the horror show cd,
and many years of obsession with IE.

Sandra - Dark Saga -

[quote="The Wicked One"]hey Sandra, its been awhile.[/quote]

Good to know I was missed Wink

I had to solve some personal stuff, but anyway, I'm back and Matthew Barlow's Fan Page will be back soon, too.

By the way, guys, if you have suggestions for the page, let me know Smile

3DD13

I don't remember exactly. Maybe one of the Glorious Burden record... The first song I remember is Angel Holocaust 'cause the first Iced Earth's CD I buyed was Night Of The Stormrider and it's the first song.

the one true seeker

Dark Saga.
I bought the cd without knowing anything about them. I was actually looking for a new Maiden CD (in the days before I had a PC). I seen the cover art and seen the capital "I" so I grabbed it thinking it was Maiden. After realizing it wasn't .I decided to buy it anyway . the artwork intrigued me.
I listened to the song Dark Saga and I Died For You in the parking lot of the store. After I heard those two songs I went back into the store and bought burnt offerings and Something wicked(which had just been released).I have been pushing their name ever since.

Sorry about the long post.

Dante

The Sexiest Metalhead

The Wicked One

TheVileMessiah

I listened to "Terror Train" by Demons and Wizards before I listened to Iced Earth. Does that count? My first Iced Earth song might have been The Reckoning, it was something Tim Ripper Era.

paranoidmexican

i guess I'll tell my story. when i was 15 i thought Marilyn Manson and Slipknot and Korn were metal. yeah, i was a nu-metal freak. this one dude i was friends wit in art class told me to try out this band instead of poser shit, and he let me listen to Dante's inferno, the reason being was that at the time i was reading Dante's inferno (the book). I thought it sounded badass and diffrent so I asked him about the band. He made a list of all their albums, followed by the statement "i'm not making you all those fucking cds" so I asked him for the album with the song I just heard and the next day he gave me a copy of AiA (3 cd). After that I was hooked, and a week later he gave me a data cd with all the IE albums on it.

TheVileMessiah

Aggelos Poneros

Proll

I'm pretty sure it was Life And Death. Uber-mega riffsplosion.

The Sexiest Metalhead

DantesInferno

First song I heard was Burning Times

Zook

The first Iced Earth song I heard was Declaration Day. With Barlow it was Watching Over Me. With Adam and Greely most likely Iced Earth and Angels Holocaust because I bought most of Iced Earth's albums at once through Amazon.

abominae1

Angel's Holocaust with Matt on vocals.

Kanadwen

My first song was The Coming Curse. Had a buddy over the INTERWEB back when I was like 10 (1998) that was like "Dude, check out this kick ass song, it has this kick ass piano entrance and then it just explodes your BRAIN!". Fell in love. Razz

zadok

Burnt Offerings.

KupoBarlow

Dark Saga, long time ago when i was reading some SPAWN comic books, a friend told me: hey bud, did you heard this band before? this is a conceptual album about THAT comic" and i listened...and i said "WOW, THAT'S FUCKIN' KICK ASS!"

Then i downoload some song...then y buy Something Wicked This Way Comes....and haha, i'm a freakin' fan! Laughing

El Vid

Angel's holocaust (and then stormrider, path I choose...)

Vengeance

I think the first song was Melancholy (Holy Martyr), because we played with my first band called Night Elves...

symbelinea

I think it was 'Dragon's Child'.. after that, I saw IE's 'the blessed and the damned' at a discount in music market and immediately I bought it..

Set Abominae

Hmm, surprised I haven't posted here. Oh well.

I was 15. A friend of mine, Tony, got me into Sabbath, Maiden and Metallica [I was into Stryper and Quiet Riot, but I mainly liked alternative]. Then, my friend Clinton gave me a burnt copy of SWTWC. I listened to that CD from front to back until it crapped out on me.

So my first IE track was Burning Times

Sentinel

The very first song i've heard of them was "Jack" from a compilation cd called The "History of Metal: Power metal". I wasn't really hooked by it and forgot the band until I got "Alive in Athens".

Well, nowadays I consider "Jack" to be a great song but back then it was a little too raw and heavy for my taste.

Kalmari

My first was Overture. Struck me entirely and I had to buy the hole discography Laughing

KitCorpse

My first taste of IE was Angel's Holocaust from NotSR. I was in Middle School when it came out and was just being introduced to heavy metal.

e6r6i6c

I think it was Pure evil on the Alive in Athens cd, I loved it immediately, the next day I went to the shop to buy the 3 cd box, and later on I saw that I had a rare misprint version of it, where on the back cover print you see the band banner in the photograph spelled backwards Twisted Evil

Feanìs

Burning Times, that was all I needed to hear, it blew me of my fucking shoes.... Twisted Evil

The Sexiest Metalhead

Razl

First song I heard was Angels Holocaust because a friend gave me a copy of Night of The Stormrider

ICEDFAN

Frankenstein

and never looked back

loved the song

NightCrawler

Don't exactly remember. I think it was Dracula. (or Wolf, I'm not sure at the moment). But anyway, I heard it, and fell in love with this voice. Laughing

And this didn't only got me into IE, also into the "real" metal.

Violator1983

Dark Saga. A friend burned me a copy of Dark Saga, and I was hooked (not to mention that SPAWN is a fucking awesome comic book). Now, I own every Iced Earth album (original and remaster). Vengeance Is Mine is my favorite song off that album.

Schulle

it was Angels Holocaust

Ahmed

Angels Holocaust, I love concept albums and asked for some recommendations on a forum and someone recommended Night of the Stromrider.

StygianTraveler

Travel in Stygian.

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Thorn

1776

. After that it was I died for you, I think Confused

. But anyway, I was immediately hooked Very Happy

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mysticalend

Burnt Offerings.

I was looking to get into Iced Earth from the sheer awesomeness of their album covers, but i heard that this album was the best or at least it had the highest reviews. It was probably a mistake. The copy of the title track i got was 64 kbps and therefore sounded like a symphonic black metal band. I loved the chorus of this song but to be honest it was in such bad quality that i did not realise how good the rest of the song was. So i was reading later that they had in fact taken a black metal approach with Burnt Offerings and their early albums were thrashier, so i had to check them out. Long story short, I play Night Of The Stormrider everyday. It is my favourite album. Everything about it is perfect. The darkness, combined with the speed and the riffs brought me something new. The story also makes it compelling too. I love the first album as well. When i listened to other metal bands such as Metalllica, Megadeth , Blind Guardian and Maiden, i always envisioned combining those styles into one band. And Iced Earth have done that, and have also introduced me to symphonic and heavier metal as a result (even thought they are not quite symphonic black metal, they are a sort of gateway drug into liking it). I will always love the early albums better, simply because they have become less riffy and more like a traditional metal band, but i still love them, and after completely going off them once i heard The Glorious Burden thanks to Tim Owens' voice, i was thrilled to hear that Matt Barlow was returning. So hopefully after the boxed set has been released, they can make a traditional album again. Let's hope so.

FrozenCandle

As I recall it was Dracula and that was definitely love at first sight. Embarassed

KupoBarlow

I known Iced Earth because of a friend of mine who lends me Spawn's comic books, so he had The Dark Saga (it was at 2000 for what i can remember), i listened the first track, "Dark Saga", then "I Died for You" and oh man, HOW I LOVE THOSE SONGS! After that, i did the same with Violate, and it was like a BOMB in my ass XD. BTW, the CD was broken and i could not listen the other songs, so i just wanted to meet another person to borrow the CD, and that's how i born as a new IE fan :B (sorry, i was a fuckin' poor kid with no money, even now it's hard to me buy a CD, it's like € 18-20 around here...:S).

mordred321

i think it was melancholy from AiA...i loved the voice and i borrowed The Horror Show CD from a friend and I knew that was it.But actually I fell in love with Schaffers work before because I listened to the demons and wizards cd because Blind Guardian was my favourite band and Hansi was my favourite singer...now BG is my second favourite band and hansi is my second favourite singer Very Happy