Search - Iced Earth :: Something Wicked This Way Comes

I expected it to be good, but it was absolutely awesome!

W. R. Lanning | 09/08/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I've been meaning to buy this album for a while just because of the first track, Burning Times. It was too expensive until this re-release showed up.



First, Burning Times and Melancholy (Holy Martyr) are two of the best songs I've ever heard. They're up there with Master of Puppets by Metallica, The Sentinel by Judas Priest, and Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden (in my book). The whole album is very good, though. It lags a bit in the middle, but it finished incredibly strong with The Prophesy, Birth of the Wicked and The Coming Curse.



This version also features some good covers of Judas Priest's The Ripper and Black Sabbath's Electric Funeral. The packaging is basically just like a vinyl album package. It's a folding cardboard sleeve with two pockets-one for a booklet and another for the disk (which is in another smaller sleeve). The disk is a black-surface CD that looks like a tiny vinyl album.



Oh, my XBOX 360 doesn't recognize the disk, but my computer can read it just fine. Normal CD players shouldn't have any issue. I think that the black reflective surface is the reason..."