ICED EARTH: Video Footage, Photos From Germany's ROCK HARD FESTIVAL Posted Online
May 12, 2008ICED EARTH played its third show with vocalist Matt Barlow back as the group's frontman last night (Sunday, May 11) at the Rock Hard Festival at the Gelsenkirchen Amphitheatre in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Fan-filmed video footage of the song "Dark Saga" can be viewed below. Check out photos from the concert at Rock 'n' Roll Reporter.
For more photos taken at this year's Rock Hard Festival including pictures of DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER, TESTAMENT, AMORPHIS, ENSLAVED, HELSTAR, EXODUS, IMMORTAL, EXCITER, NAPALM DEATH, JORN, VOLBEAT and PARADISE LOST go to this location.
ICED EARTH's official web site, IcedEarth.com, was recently updated with a brand new audio interview with the band's mainman, Jon Schaffer. The wide-ranging 37-minute chat is available as a free MP3 download at this location (35 MB).
Audio samples from ICED EARTH's forthcoming single, "I Walk Among You", have been posted on the group's MySpace page.
With the framework for the Armageddon of Man firmly laid with the bands
2007 full-length release, "Framing Armageddon - Something Wicked Part I", ICED EARTH is set to launch the next installment of Jon Schaffer's "Something Wicked" saga with the release of "I Walk Among You" on the following dates:
Germany - June 6
Rest of Europe - June 9
USA/Canada - June 10
The full-length studio follow-up to "Something Wicked Part I" is due for release in fall of 2008.
The new single and proceeding full-length studio album mark the return to the band of longtime frontman Matt Barlow, whose dark and sinister tones are the perfect fit to narrate the intense and viscous annihilation of mankind set in motion with the birth of the storys main character, "Set Abominae", in "Something Wicked Part II". The single will allow fans to get a glimpse of the bright future for the band, and the perhaps not-so-bright future for humanity as we now know it.
The single will feature three songs, an exclusive version of the song "I Walk Alone" and a few tracks from "Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Part 1)" with new vocal performances by Matt Barlow. Due to the re-tracking of the lead vocals these tracks have been remixed and remastered. There will be an iTunes-exclusive version of the single "I Walk Among You" that features "A Charge To Keep" which has also been re-sung by Matt, remixed and re-mastered.
All tracks were recorded at Jon Schaffer's studio, Soaring Eagle Sound, and mixed and mastered at Morrisound. The single, and following full-length platter will be released by Steamhammer/SPV.
"I Walk Among You" (cover artwork) track listing:
01. I Walk Alone
02. Setian Massacre
03. The Clouding
04. A Charge to Keep (exclusive iTunes track)
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