Century Media
2001
Horror Show
About This Album
American power metal's last hope returns with a monumentally complex, full-octane fan-boy-driven concept album. Fear not, the pummeling thrash chords of old still remain, while Paul Stanley's -- er, Matt Barlow's -- vocals still crackle with molten energy and untapped emotional well. Leaders Jon Schaffer and Larry Tarnowski maintain their frenetic musical hunger as potent axemen, adding additional emotional layers to create the most heartfelt and ambitious Iced Earth release. Horror Show's mastery lies in its promising (for the power metal genre at least) as sources of inspiration classic horror films, and most prominently the Universal Studios-type from the '30s. To go further without mentioning the addition of drummer extraordinaire Richard Christy of Death/Control Denied fame or Death/Testament/Sadus bassist Steve DiGiorgio would be an injustice toHorror Show, as they help complete one of American metal's most musically enlightened lineups. Christy impels the rest of the group to march to the beat of a faster, complex drum, adding dynamic, patient layering to slower pieces like "Ghost of Freedom" and pummeling rhythms and cymbal dances to thrash beasts like "Wolf.
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