So Barlows back in Iced Earth

No, he's still in Pyramaze. From Jonah:

"Just so you guys know, Matt is still in Pyramaze and the recording is going as planned. Matt will issue his own press statement soon, so stay tuned. cheers -jonah w"
 
Now, I actually give a shit about reading Iced Earth headlines on Blabbermouth again.
 
It seems like Jon ran out of good ideas for his music long time ago, and he's writing almost everything for IE so i don't think Matt will be able to make the new album sound much better anyway:rolleyes:I haven't listened through the whole "Framing Armageddon", although IE used to be my favorite band (but then I discovered Nevermore:heh:), the songs are so extremely boring!!!!!!!!!!
 
Honestly, regardless of singer. The best thing Jon could do is to find another musician for the band who is an extremely good songwriter and work with them to make a great CD.
This is a classic example what happens when " one man is the band ", they run out of ideas. Jon's one riff got old many albums ago.