- May 13, 2007
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Doesn't come out here in the States until tomorrow, yet I found the collector's edition at Best Buy on Saturday! Came with a sticker and a fold-out poster of the album artwork.
Gotta say, this is an impressive album. I really, really disliked their last two albums - the concept was boring, there wasn't enough fast music, the guitars sounded extremely thin and weak, and everything was just... dull, in my opinion. Glorious Burden wasn't all that great either.
But Dystopia... the music is finally heavy again, and it's fast - back to the Iced Earth I knew ages ago! Stu Block is an incredible vocalist, a friend of mine described him as a 'vocal chameleon' and he totally is - he sounds exactly like Ripper Owens when he hits the high notes, but the rest of the time he sounds like Matt Barlow! If I didn't know Barlow had left the band, I could've easily been fooled into thinking he was still singing for them.
The title track is great, the song Anthem is good too, and there's a song on the special edition I have called Soylent Green that's not bad either
Needs some more spins to digest the rest of the music but wow, I'm impressed - and thank god, too, because I had nearly lost all hope in the band!
Gotta say, this is an impressive album. I really, really disliked their last two albums - the concept was boring, there wasn't enough fast music, the guitars sounded extremely thin and weak, and everything was just... dull, in my opinion. Glorious Burden wasn't all that great either.
But Dystopia... the music is finally heavy again, and it's fast - back to the Iced Earth I knew ages ago! Stu Block is an incredible vocalist, a friend of mine described him as a 'vocal chameleon' and he totally is - he sounds exactly like Ripper Owens when he hits the high notes, but the rest of the time he sounds like Matt Barlow! If I didn't know Barlow had left the band, I could've easily been fooled into thinking he was still singing for them.
The title track is great, the song Anthem is good too, and there's a song on the special edition I have called Soylent Green that's not bad either
Needs some more spins to digest the rest of the music but wow, I'm impressed - and thank god, too, because I had nearly lost all hope in the band!
What a deal, you lucky bastard! 
