Thank you guys for Ranking the Studio Albums: Iced Earth🎤🎸🎵🥁

Iced Earth is my third all time favorite band ever right behind Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. I love all their albums big time accept for Crucible Of Man. They are the most consistent band in my opinion. My ranking does change sometimes, but at the moment it would have to be and with one song from each album. 12. Crucible Of Man- Come What May 11. Framing Armageddon - The Clouding 10. Plagues Of Babylon - The End 9. Burnt Offerings- Dante's Inferno 8. Horror Show- Damien 7. Something Wicked This Way Comes- Melancholy 6. Dystopia- Dark City 5. Incorruptible- Clear The Way 4. The Glorious Burden - Gettysburg Trilogy 3. The Dark Saga- A Question Of Heaven 2. Iced Earth self titled debut album - Curse The Sky 1. Night Of The Stormrider - Pure Evil I am one of the few fans that loves Gene Adam on the first self titled debut album, and John Greely on Night Of The Stormrider. I do also really love Matt Barlow's versions on the Days Of Purgatory album alot . I agree that Alive In Athens three CD live album is PHENOMENAL! It is one of the greatest live albums ever. I also really love their other more recent live album Live In Ancient Kourion alot also.

So melodic and HEAVY, even the ballads. Schaffer’s picking hand is the best in the biz. How can you not love their galloping rhythms. My favs (like them all). 1 Something Wicked... 2 Dark Saga 3 Burnt Offerings 4 Dystopia 5 Night of the Stormrider 6 Framing Armageddon

Great video! Here's mine 1- Something Wicked This Way Comes 2- The Dark Saga 3- Burnt Offerings 4- Horror Show 5- Night Of The Stormrider 6- Dystopia 7- Glorious Burden 8- Iced Earth 9- Plagues of Babylon 10- Incorruptible 11- The Crucible Of Man - Something Wicked Part 2 12- Framing Armageddon - Something Wicked Part 1

Nice one Pete! Remember when live in Athens was recorded I had just started listening to metal and it was one of my first concerts; what a surprise to see that a live album came out of it. Great band with a long of energy

Love this band! Long time fan here and I was so glad to watch y’all do your lists on one of my fav metal bands. Good work! What I’ve found is coming back to some of these after giving them a break gives me a new perspective. I didn’t like Incorruptible at first but now love it.

Something Wicked is not my only favorite Iced Earth album but it’s my favorite album in all of metal. One great American heavy metal band.

Welcome back, Jack! You’ve been missed. And a great show by you and Pete.

That’s an amazing way to pay tribute to this brilliant band. Really fun and enjoyable talk. I personally love Framing and Crucible! Bought years ago the Box of the Wicked and really pleased me getting into it. Great cost benefit !

Great to see Jack Toledano again he’s hilarious. We’ve finally got a ranking show for Iced Earth since you have mentioned this band so much on this channel.

So awesome to see Jack back to rank an awesome band like this. Loved you’re Primal Fear rankings and it’s awesome to see you back. 🤟

Awesome to see this. The first show about Iced Earth was my intro to the SoT channel and I've discovered new bands on here. Schaffer and Barlow have gotten together again to do a Christmas Album this year too, believe it or not!

Great to see Jack T back in action!! Just starting to dig into these albums, Something Wicked is awesome, I love Barlows vocals.

So glad to see that Jack is back!! Iced Earth is awesome man, they kick ass. I started with the Alive in Athens 3 CD box (which I think is one of the absolute best live albums of all time) and have been hooked ever since. Barlow is the best singer, but the Glorious Burden album with Ripper is fantastic. Really happy that Stu has taken over the vocal duties 'cause the man can sing! Whenever I want to put on an album that I know will give me an adrenaline rush, I reach out for one of my four go to bands: Iced Earth, Primal Fear, Iron Savior and Amon Amarth. Very cool episode guys!!

Thanks for introducing me to this amazing band

Finally, I had drifted from traditional metal in the 90's and found myself in an independent record store in 2000 or so, where I saw Alive in Athens. Based on the cover alone, I had to have that album, and it is truly a classic. What Live After Death was for Iron Maiden, Alive in Athens is to Iced Earth. This album renewed my interest in traditional metal and is still pretty much a perfect live album.

Burnt Offerings is my favorite of all Iced Earth album Jon Schaffer is a monster on that album and Matt Barlow is at his peak

Thanks Pete!!! Been waiting for this. Absolute gods of U.S. epic/trad/thrash-infused power metal. \m/ \m/

Jack is back! I’m just dipping my toe in the Iced Earth pool. This will come in handy 👍

Great video my list would include the ones you listed.stay safe Jack and Pete, Thanks for the idea..Aloha!

1. Something Wicked This Way Comes 2. The Dark Saga 3. Horror Show 4. The Glorious Burden 5. Burnt Offerings These are my top 5.

Great show guys. Something Wicked always no1 for me then Burnt Offerings and then Night Of The Stormrider despite the vocals. Dark Saga great but a bit short I found, and all 3 of the Stu Block albums great. Into Eternity were a great band

The "Alive in Athens" was recorded in the famous Rodon Venue. It's official capacity was 1.000 people, but during the clubs great metal day's, it was always packed with over 1.500 attendees! I watched many killer shows during the nineties and the early 2.000. We were a very passionate crowd, as we did not have the opportunity to watch our favorite bands very often!

I also thought Barlow sounded like Paul Stanley sometimes, part of what made me like them when I first listened to them.

Iced Earth - Great band ! Love em! My favorite album is Night of the Stormrider! All the other albums is great as well!

Thanks for this guys! Your discussion at the end is exactly on point. Looking forward to more! Listening to more prog lately, stumbled onto Flying Colors. This a band you might bring up on a Supergroups show Pete? I am impressed, along with most all Mike Portnoy's various bands after DT.

Awesome...thx Pete!

Hi Pete , my all-time favorite is Something wicked this way comes . I also love it because yes at times on this and others Barlow sounds like Paul Stanley.

My rankings seem to be in line with these guys, I just started watching your videos. Gonna check out your Queensryche ranking now. If you haven't done a Savatage that would be interesting.

Cool to see Jack Toledano back! My Ranking: 1- Something Wicked This Way Comes 2- The Dark Saga 3- Burnt Offerings 4- Night Of The Stormrider 5-The Glorious Burden 6- Dystopia 7- Horror Show 8- Incorruptible 9- Iced Earth 10- Plagues Of Babylon 11- The Crucible Of Man - Something Wicked Part 2 12- Framing Armageddon - Something Wicked Part 1 HM: Alive In Athens and Days Of Purgatory

I'm from Greece -they played in a famous club called rodon(it's closed now) -in front of 1500 people but Greeks loves them in general -they usually play more than once in Athens

Pete, so glad you mentioned the vocal similarity between Matt Barlow and Paul Stanley! As soon as I heard The Dark Saga back in the day, and some of the slower, moodier songs, I instantly heard that Paul Stanley connection.

Alive in Athens is one of the greatest metal live album I've ever listened to. I bought the 3cd version many years ago in Wacken, after the Iced Earth performance, and I was blown away! Anyway my fav LP is SWTWC! Killer album!

Days of Purgatory was a game changer in my musical tastes as a kid

Very cool to see Jack again on the show.

I saw them on the glorious burden tour as well and they kicked ass up and down the metro in chicago. I was 17 at the time and they blew me away! Plus seeing children of bodom and evergrey in their prime was great too

You can put in any order they are all awesome Matt Barlows solo stuff awesome. Into Eternity great band

I love Iced Earth. Discovered them around 2000 or 2001 and have been a fan ever since. Something Wicked has always been my favorite, but Burnt Offerings is always a VERY close second.

I like Iced Earth but haven’t listened to many of their albums. I am going to dig deeper into their albums.

Nice undertaking. Great Halloween spirit. :)

Great band....I thought you might have the DVD to the Athens cd Pete...its a small venue and stage,but great show...✌️

I did not realize they had 5 LEAD singers. WOW

1. Night of the Stormrider 2. Burnt Offerings 3. Dark Saga 4. Something Wicked 5. Horror Show 6. Dystopia 7. Iced Earth 8. Incorruptible 9. Plagues of Babylon 10. Glorious Burden 11. Framing Armegedeon 2 12. Framing Armegedeon 1

I saw Iced Earth at the Mascaraed in Atlanta Ga about 7 years ago . They're a really good band

I remember once listening to Red Baron/Blue Max while reading my "Enemy Ace" DC Archives editions. After that I put on Death Or Glory by Maiden. Sometimes in life you've simply gotta have the appropriate soundtrack. : ) \m/ \m/

Hey Pete , Have you ever done a Top 10 band mascots list or band logo list? Those would be great to see if you haven't already done them.

I am not sure if Pete and Jack knows that two years ago Gene Adam and Jon Schaffer reunited for the first time in almost thirty years and rerecorded five songs from their Purgatory days called Jon Schaffer's Purgatory and it is amazing. Gene Adam's singing is way better now than it was thirty years ago. Gene Adam did an incredible job on their recent EP. Most fans have been comparing his high vocals to King Diamond. Give it a chance if you have not listened to it yet. It has a modern day sound, but the music has an 80's vibe to it in my opinion. There are some Iced Earth fans that hate the self titled debut album because of Gene Adam's singing, but I have always loved it. His singing in my opinion fit the songs perfectly. I did also listen to the self titled debut album first before Days Of Purgatory because at that time it had not been done yet. I do love Matt Barlow's versions of the songs from the first two albums on Days Of Purgatory big time as well.

I agree with the both of you that Iced Earth should be way bigger than they already are. They are my third all time favorite band ever right behind Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. The many lineup changes could be a reason why they are not bigger, and their first studio album came out in America in 1991 when this type of music was about to go back to the underground. I have been a huge massive fan of theirs since 1995 when I was 16 years old. I loved their album covers big time and the first album I bought was Night Of The Stormrider , and I have been a huge massive fan of theirs ever since. In my opinion they should be headlining arenas and stadiums all around the world. They are that PHENOMENAL to me. Thank you for giving them more exposure on your channel.

Batman/ 1966. I was 4 yrs old/ most colorful TV show / I saw up to that point. Welcome back JACK! Nothing like @ sense of humor! Great job guys !!👍💯

Iced Earth is pure Traditional Metal legends. Been a fan since 1996 with Dark Saga.

A question to heaven makes me cry every time I listen to it among others

I need to listen to all of these before I rank them. I missed a few over the years. But one thing I will say is that Iced Earth makes some of the best damn album covers!

By Far, Mr. Pete, one of your best shows in a long time...However, I would replace "Glorious Burden" at 1, "Something Wicked" at 2...everything else was pretty much spot on !! Do you have CD's by a band "Avantasia" ?, enough to do a show about them ? .... Keep up the Great Work ~~ Erica

Seen 15 times including Matty Barlows last performance at Wacken. Meet and great in Cologne was awesome to

Great show again Pete, happy to see Jack back as he is one of my favourite guests! 5 singers isn't so bad when you have been around since 1966! Lol

This band is awesome I love them.

Welcome Back Jack hope you're okay mate :) Just going to do a top 7 on these guys as I'll admit I haven't heard any album past The Glorious Burden I started getting into other bands and they got lost in the shuffle. It was originally going to be a top 5 but couldn't leave out the other 2 albums so here goes... 7. Iced Earth 6. Horror Show 5. Burnt Offerings 4. The Glorious Burden 3. Something Wicked This Way Comes 2. Night Of The Stormrider 1. The Dark Saga

Nice Opeth shirt, Pete. Would love to see a ranking of them.

LOL 1966. Thanks Pete!

I really loved Iced Earth in the late 90s and early 2000s. I've seen them live a couple of times, always with Barlow. In 1998 in Würzburg (my first concert, actually; they were accompanied by Brainstorm, Wicked Angel & Sentenced), in Wacken I wanna say 2000 and 2008 in Balingen. I didn't care much for them lately. I haven't really heard the most current album. So it will be 11 Albums for me. I loved "Something Wicked This Way Comes" when it came out. Still do, actually. The exceptions always were the the 3 closing titles. So, I've never really been a fan of the "Wicked"-Story. They were talking about making more of it way before "Framing Armageddon" came out. I believe it was originally planned as the follow-up to "Horror Show". I wasn't thrilled about the prospect of more from the start. My favorite singer is Barlow. I really like Owens. I'm not the biggest fan of the 1st two singers. I actually never even remember their names, to be honest. I do like those albums, though. I never warmed up to Stu Block. I hated the version of "Dante's Inferno" they recorded with him. Not ranked: "Incorruptible". I've heard about half the songs on YT before deciding wether to buy it or not. Didn't like it. That's why I stopped after half of it. Never bought it, never heard any of it again. Don't care for it, can't rank it. 11. "Dystopia": I bought it. I've listened to it a couple of times. There is not a single song on it that stuck with me. Never heard it again. 10. "Framing Armageddon": As I've said, I'm skepticical about the "Wicked"-Story. I kinda like "Framing Armageddon" (the track). I love "Ten Thousand Strong". I regularly listen to just that song of it. Haven't heard the full album in years. 9. "Plagues of Babylon": I liked it somewhat when it came out. I listened to it quite regularly for a while. After I stopped I never really went back to it, though.Title track and "Cthulhu" are the ones I remember best. 8. "Iced Earth": I'm with you guys. Great songs, terrible singer. There's really nothing else to say. 7. "The Crucible of Men": I was thrilled for Barlow's comeback. I like the album quite fine. It doesn't stick out much. "I Walk Alone", "Divide Devour" & "Crucify the King" are really great. Rest is nice. I haven't listened to it a lot lately. But every now and then I put it on. 6. "Horror Show": Couple of great songs, couple of nice songs, couple of not so memorable songs. 5. "The Glorious Burden": Always the trilogies with Iced Earth. Don't care much for the "Gettysburg"-threesome. I really dig the rest. Those songs were written for Ripper, I think. 4. "The Dark Saga": My 1st album. I bought it because it was mentioned in the German verion of the "Spawn"-comics. Pretty great, like it start to finish. Bought in late 1997. 3. "Something Wicked This Way Comes": Rather shortly after "The Dark Saga". As I've said, I'm not a fan of the trilogy. But the rest I love. This and "The Dark Saga" change places according to whatever day it is. 2. "Burnt Offerings": Great, absolutely great. I love it start to finish. It's dark, bombastic and only one is better. 1. "Night of the Stormrider": I agree with you, that he's better than the 1st singer. I like the Barlow-Versions better, for sure. But I think these are their best songs. And it's different when you hear the album start to finish then when you hear them with other songs in-between and some of them even missing on "Alive in Athens" or "Days of Purgatory". I would've loved if they ever did a complete re-release with Barlow as the singer. But alas. Weaks singer , still their best album. At least in my opinion. BTW: IIRC "The Dark Saga"-Cover was drawn by Greg Capullo, who did "Spawn" for a long time.

Iced earth reminded me of Iron Maiden meets Metallica. Which was right in mt sweet spot.

Pete what do you think of Cirith Ungol?,I overlooked them in the 80s but just started listening to them, they are pretty good, kinda like a cross between Rush and Maiden and pretty progressive too which I know you like.

Interesting thing is if you like Richard Christy and Ripper have band called charred walls of the damned. You guys should check them out if you haven’t.

Iced Earth Rules 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

1) The Dark Saga 2) Something Wicked This Way Comes 3) Night of the Stormrider 4) Burnt Offerings 5) Horror Show 6) Iced Earth 7) Dystopia 8) The Glorious Burden 9) Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked, pt 1) 10) Incorruptible 11) Plagues of Babylon 12) The Crucible of Man (Something Wicked, pt 2)

I was really worried when I heard Stu Block got the gig... I was concerned they were going to try and go with a lot of the death-metal-growly stuff I had heard from Into Eternity... but I heard the album and I was convinced Stu was the man! I saw them live and Stu blew me away. What an amazing live show.

I found out about Iced Earth in 2017, but didn't listen to them until 2020. So far I only heard three albums: Dystopia, Burnt Offernings and The Dark Saga. Loved Dystopia, but the other two aren't my cup of tea. I want to mention that the band's music does live up to its name, for it feels quite cold, dark and scary. The openings to some songs sound like horror film soundtracks. Thanks to this video I found out that I have been pronouncing Jon Schaffer's last name wrong. It is Sh-ei-fer, whereas I pronounced it like it's written.

I saw Iced earth live with Barlow and Into eternity was the opening band, which led to Stu becoming there new singer.

Definitely a band I'm really surprised that isn't more well-known I discovered iced Earth to you although I will admit I like they're newer stuff more Stewie has an amazing voice

I like it when Pete says “this just doesn’t work for me” - great line ! I think Pete and Jack met in college freshman year?

I have all iced earth not a bad one so much great material wow

Seen every tour since Horror Show. They NEVER let you down live. Always a dynamite concert experience.

I'm a big fan. My ranking: 1 - The Dark Saga 2 - Something Wicked This Way Comes 3 - Iced Earth 4 - Night of the Stormrider 5 - Dystopia 6 - Incorruptible 7 - Plagues of Babylon 8 - The Glorious Burden 9 - Burnt Offerings 10 - Horror Show 11 - Framing Armageddon 12 - The Crucible of Man

I can see the two "Something Wicked" albums being on the bottom, even though "Ten Thousand Strong" is totally badass. It says something about Iced Earth when the bottom of the list are these albums.

One of the most approachable bands ever

Their albums with my man Tim RIPPERRR Owens are second to none also their cover album and that Horror theme album was one of the best in their class! Love Iced Earth so much, have seen them over 7 times, a killer ass band to see live!

The best album is "Days of Purgatory". The awesome song material of the first albums rerecorded with the best Iced Earth singer. But to rank the Iced Earth albums is a really hard job. Next a ranking of the Virgin Steele records please.

Bout time All The Damn Time Jack to be back !!!!!!!!!! Don't care much for IE, but gonna watch cause of Jack !!

My ranking based on the albums that I own and like 7) Dystopia 6) Glorious Burden 5) Dark Saga 4) Horror Show 3) Something Wicked 2) Days of Purgatory 1) Burnt Offerings

" Incorruptible" was my "Album of the Year" a couple of years ago. It's probably not their best, but was my pick!

Jack's back! Nice to have him back. I just got into Iced Earth lately, but I do dig a lot of their stuff: 1. Burnt Offerings 1995 2. Something WIcked This Way Comes 1998 3. Dark Saga 1996 4. Night of Stormrider 1991 5. Horror Show 2001 6. Iced Earth 1990 7. Dystopia 2011 8. Plagues of Babylon 2014 9. The Glorious Burden 2004 (updated) 10. Incorruptible 2017 (updated) 11. The Crucible of Man 2008 12. Framing Armageddon 2007 Listening to "Incorruptible" lately, I am thinking it is going to "creep up" for me too. UPDATE: "The Glorious Burden" is an epic subject to tackle, honestly find it a little uneven, people may not like that, but just my opinion!

Horror Show is a masterpiece !

On horror show the song Dracula was not mentioned, do you not like it or was it just mistakenly neglected? In my opinion Dracula Damien and phantom opera ghost are the three best songs on that record

So, what is it with Stu Block and bands with the initials IE? 1. The Dark Saga, 2. Horror Show, 3. Something Wicked This Way Comes, 4. Night Of The Stormrider, 5. Burnt Offerings, 6. The Glorious Burden, 7. Iced Earth, 8. Framing Armageddon, 9. Dystopia, 10. The Crucible Of Man, 11. Plagues Of Babylon, 12. Incorruptible.

1- The Dark Saga 2- Burnt Offerings 3- Horror Show 4- Glorious Burden 5- Night Of The Stormrider 6- Something Wicked This Way Comes 7- Iced Earth

The Gettysburg (1863) thirty minute epic from Glorious Burden,.. MASTERPIECE !!!

Pete and Jack - you introduced me to this band with the Top 10 Songs show months ago, thank you so much!!! That being said, Barlow is the only singer that clicks with me and to be honest with you, for my taste, Something Wicked This Way Comes is better than all of their other albums combined!!! Burnt Offerings and Dark Saga are okay in spots but when I spin Something Wicked it really moves me, sends chills right up the back of my neck!!!

Days Of Purgatory is their best release but this is for studio albums so: 1. Something Wicked This Way Comes 2. The Dark Saga 3. Dystopia 4. Night Of The Stormrider 5. Plagues Of Babylon 6. Iced Earth 7. Burnt Offerings 8. Horror Show 9. Incorruptible 10. The Glorious Burden 11. Framing Armageddon 12. The Crucible Of Man

1. Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part 1) 2. The Glorious Burden 3. Dystopia 4. Night of the Stormrider 5. The Dark Saga 6. Something Wicked This Way Comes 7. Plagues of Babylon 8. Burnt Offerings 9. Incorruptible 10. Horror Show 11. The Crucible of Man (Something Wicked Part 2) 12. Iced Earth Really all cool albums.

Don't forget to mention the awesome Luke Appleton from Manchester Uk awesome

Can you please do a ranking the live albums of Queen?

The Glorious Burden is my #1.

1. Burnt Offerings 2. Days Of Purgatory 3. Night Of The Stormrider 4. Iced Earth 5. Horror Show 6. Dark Saga 7. Something Wicked This Way Comes 8. Framing Armageddon 9. Incorruptible 10. Dystopia 11. The Glorious Burden 12. Crucible Of Man 13. Plagues Of Babylon 14. A Narrative Soundscape

Gettysburg trilogy is one of the absolutely best heavy metal compositions ever. Magnificient! Imo Burnt Offerings is their best album, though. Dante's Inferno is a f***ing masterpiece!

It’s almost eerie how, less than three months after this vid was made, Iced Earth’s reputation was irreparably destroyed by a series of unfortunate events/revelations that I won’t recap. And I’m acknowledging this as a fan of the first Barlow era, especially.

Stormrider/Something wicked/Burnt offerings/Horror show/Days of Purgatory.

My rank: 1 Something Wicked This Way Comes 2 Burnt Offerings 3 The Dark Saga 4 Night of the Stormrider 5 The Glorious Burden 6 Horror Show 7 Dystopia 8 Incorruptible 9 Plagues of Babylon 10 Iced Earth 11 Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked part 1 12 The Crucible of Man: Something Wicked part 2

Would you do a WASP albums ranking?

1. Stormrider 2. Iced Earth 3. Something Wicked I unapologetically like John Greeley's vocals more than any of the others. The songs themselves on Stormrider make it by far their best album.

The mascots name from most of the album covers is Set Abominae, FYI. Oh, never mind.