Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider (1991)

Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider

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Artist...............: Iced Earth

Album................: Night Of The Stormrider

Genre................: Heavy Metal

Source...............: NMR

Year.................: 1991

Ripper...............: NMR

Codec................: LAME 3.93

Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III

Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)

Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz

Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3

Information..........:



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Tracklisting

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1. (00:04:53) Iced Earth - Angels Holocaust

2. (00:04:49) Iced Earth - Stormrider

3. (00:05:55) Iced Earth - The Path I Choose

4. (00:01:24) Iced Earth - Before The Vision

5. (00:04:46) Iced Earth - Mystical End

6. (00:06:55) Iced Earth - Desert Rain

7. (00:06:34) Iced Earth - Pure Evil

8. (00:01:12) Iced Earth - Reaching The End

9. (00:09:19) Iced Earth - Travel In Stygian



Playing Time.........: 00:45:47

Total Size...........: 104.81 MB



NFO generated on.....: 8/5/2008 1:45:07 PM





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Night of the Stormrider is American heavy metal band Iced Earth's second

full-length album. It is a concept album about a man who is betrayed by

religion and turns away from it in anger. The dark forces of nature reach out

to this enraged man and use him as their vessel to bring death and

destruction to Earth. He is commanded to travel to a desert, where he is

given visions that reveal the truth of humanity, and warp his mind further to

make him the "Stormrider." After the destruction of the world, he is then

damned forever into the depths of Hell, also referenced as the River Styx.

After being forever damned and taunted by evil spirits, he eventually sees

what he has done, and realizes that it is too late to repent.



Night of the Stormrider is the only album featuring lead singer John Greely

(who was later fired) and drummer Rick Secchiari. Like the album's

predecessor Iced Earth, Night of the Stormrider is mostly a thrash metal

release, the main reason being Greely's vocals, which are slightly more

aggressive than the power metal reminiscent vocals of Matt Barlow.