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Great post Alan, i can relate to that to 100%. IE were a real life-saver in those days, but i slighty disagree on "The Dark Saga". Yes, i was also disappointed when i heard it, but at least four songs got me hoocked up: Obviously "The Hunter" and "Slave To The Dark", but also "A Question To Heaven" and "I Died For You", so at least four outstanding tracks add up to a good, worhty album in the end. After that, well, not much good happened anymore...

dont think it was any better in Greece back then.Circa 1992-1997 we all got a generous serving of Angra,Iced Earth,Grave Digger and thats 'ultra true' metal for the times,all you could find was Brutal Truth,Six feet under,whatever Nuclear Blast and Century Media could pay the Greek metal hammer enough to shove down our throats.At least the underground was going strong,you could still get a warlord tape (no LPs!)or a medieval steel tape from someone you would know.
Of course when Hamsterrfall became relevant everyone took off the corpsepaint and grabbed their Thundercats swords.hah.

and same situation here in Mexico! my brother always said back then when i was a kid that Iced Earth was the most classic sounding you could get when there was no much variety by the end of the 90s... and its so true, i can remember well how CM records ruled supreme here too during that period

Glad other folks are joining me on my long, rambling stroll down Memory Lane

I can't help but wonder what we'll be writing about 2010 fifteen years from now. "Back in my day, you actually had to get on a 'computer' and do a 'download' to hear an album. It could take you 30 minutes to find what you wanted and d/l it. It's so different today where kids have laser beams that can directly shoot the music into your brain using power crystals. I mean, we were stuck with these clunky mp3 players that only held a few hundred gigabytes of music"

nightsblood wrote:"Back in my day, you actually had to get on a 'computer' and do a 'download' to hear an album. It could take you 30 minutes to find what you wanted and d/l it. It's so different today where kids have laser beams that can directly shoot the music into your brain using power crystals. I mean, we were stuck with these clunky mp3 players that only held a few hundred gigabytes of music"

Another one for the Greatest Quotes Hall Of Fame.

As for Internet Earth, I'm totally in the dark, but curious. I just might make the 30+ minutes effort and "google" the "blogs" for some "mp3s" right about now...

nightsblood wrote:Glad other folks are joining me on my long, rambling stroll down Memory Lane

I can't help but wonder what we'll be writing about 2010 fifteen years from now. "Back in my day, you actually had to get on a 'computer' and do a 'download' to hear an album. It could take you 30 minutes to find what you wanted and d/l it. It's so different today where kids have laser beams that can directly shoot the music into your brain using power crystals. I mean, we were stuck with these clunky mp3 players that only held a few hundred gigabytes of music"

It's gonna be more like "Back in my day, we were still alive".

Like everyone else, they lost it on Horror Show.. & Night Of The Stormrider is their best!

I'm going to go against the grain here and defend 'Horror Show'. It took me a good while to get properly into it, but I gave it another go after seeing them play the songs live in Athens on that tour, and over time I got to love it. There is filler on every IE album, and 'Horror Show' is no different, but tracks like 'Wolf', 'Dracula' and 'Damien' are brilliant. The lyrics might be cringeworthy, but the delivery is spot-on.

'The Glorious Burden' was their first album to really let me down, although the 'Gettysburg' trilogy is great.

Yeah i love ICED EARTH.I have seen them twice with Barlow.

I think all the albums have their highlights until Horror Show which i consider a good album.

Night Of The Stormrider is their masterpiece though.Great speed metal album.

The post of the user Nightsblood on page 3 is very enlightening!

On topic, I still admire the greatness of the "Night of the Stormrider" album. Nevertheless there were times back in highschool when I was mentioning this band as one of my three favorite metal bands. This is a really frequent statement for a Greek student!