Night of the Stormrider

Night of the Stormrider

Track Listings

1. Angels Holocaust

2. Stormrider

3. Path I Choose

4. Before the Vision

5. Mystical End

6. Desert Rain

7. Pure Evil

8. Reaching the End

9. Travel in Stygian

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Remastered & remixed reissue of the prog-metaller's classic second album, originally released in 1991, it features new cover art & revised layouts! Century Media.

Tracks:

Angels Holocaust
Stormrider
Path I Choose
Before the Vision
Mystical End
Desert Rain
Pure Evil
Reaching the End
Travel in Stygian

Album Description

Remastered & remixed reissue of the prog-metaller's classic second album, originally released in 1991, it features new cover art & revised layouts! Century Media.

Customer Reviews:

90s albums this great are hard to come by........2007-03-16

Iced Earth are easily one of the best bands to debut on a record label in the 90s. If I wouldn't of known any better, I'd think this was an 80s classic/thrash metal album. They really capture that 80s heavy metal feel on this album. In my opinion it sounds like a mixture of Slayer, Metallica, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden most of the way through. But all the way, they have a very unique sound that is their own. Believe me when I say they are no imitators of the above bands. They have a style all their own influenced by the classic, great metal bands. The guitar easily stands out the most here. Jon Schaffer writes extraordinary music and riffs on NOTSR. He has some of the fastest hands I've ever heard on guitar, especially for a rhythm guitarist. He is definitely one of the most talented, underrated rhythm guitarists out there. There are so many classics on this album that will be stuck in your head after just a listen or two.

My favorite track on the album is the epic album closer- Travel In Stygian. It is so fast and the tempo and riffs keep changing the whole way through. The chorus is easily one of the best, if not the best on the album. My favorite riff on the entire album comes at 4:40 on this song when Schaffer just shreds on guitar. Other favorites of mine also include Stormrider(which I was surprised at how awesome Schaffer's voice was, as he sings on this one),Angels Holocaust, and Mystical End. There are two short acoustic songs which act kind of as intros for the song afterwards. Those two songs are Reaching The End and Before The Vision. Both are excellent, but the later of the two is better I personally think. Greely's vocals really shine on these two. John Greely does an amazing job on vocals for this album. His vocals are very dynamic, going from a nice, smooth, clean voice to an extremely heavy metal voice. He can also hit those high notes. He was an excellent choice by Schaffer. Is he as good as Matt Barlow? Probably not, but he's very close in my opinion.

This is an epic, dark, concept album. Whats not to like about that? To tell you the truth, I really can't find any problems with NOTSR whatsoever. Everything is just solid in all aspects. I was expecting a good album, but what I found was that this exceeded my greatest expectations. So that makes for an easy 5 star album.

needs better vocals.......2007-01-08

This is the first really good Iced Earth album. It has only one weak area, the vocals!!! You should get the Matt Barlow versions of the songs. The best songs are Angels Holocaust (my favorite Iced Earth song), Desert Rain, Pure Evil, and Travel in Stygian. This is also a great concept album telling a dark and sad story.

Metal to the max.......2006-11-22

Obviously, Iced Earth has never heard of "The Sophmore jinx". Because albums usually don't sound THIS good. An absolute clasic, to the end. There are many classics that are played to this day such as "Stormrider" and "Travel In Stygian". I recommend this to anyone who likes Iced Earth or any other metal band. Best metal album in my book, and hopefully in your book too.

NO REMORSE!!! ITS TOO LATE!!!.......2006-08-04

This is by far my favorite Iced Earth album to date, next to Burnt Offerings, Dark Saga, Horror Show, Something Wicked, Glorious Burden(although it took a while for Ripper to grow on me), hell, all the Iced Earth albums are f-ing amazing.

What distinguishes this album from their later releases is the the complexity, probally making this album the most complex from an American band at that time. Plenty of palm-muting and driving guitars and drums make this CD instantly-satisfying, and while the vocals arent Matt Barlow, he is better than alot of vocalists who where around at that time (especially James Hetfield when he mellowed his growl). The vocalist goes from operatic to downright Tom Araya-ish.

As for the songs, there is literally no bad songs, a trend that wont be stopped until Glorius Burden (I really, really hated all the 9/11 stuff, even though they have a great theme of patriotism.) My favorites, though, are Angels Holocaust/Stormrider, The Path I Choose, Pure Evil, Mystical End, and Travel in Stygian, probally the greatest closer to an Iced Earth album next to "Dantes Inferno".

Fans of metal in general should enjoy this. Also get IE's aforementioned albums.

Musical masterpiece.......2006-07-28

An awesome concept album, about a dammed warrior who brings death and destruction to Earth and in the end, hell awaits his unforgiving soul.
This there second album with new singer {this band has changed singers a # of times} John Greely who does an excellent job and a new drummer.
American Power Metal with a dark mood....the music really blends nicely for this dark concept album.
Travel In Stygian..... Man, wow!!!! What a song. Was the first Iced Earth song I heard years ago. I ran down to the record store {back then that is how you got music} No" they didn't have the tape so I bought there first album and had to wait months to order this one on CD from a mailorder catalog.
This album truly has that heavy metal magic that makes a classic and for me that magic would not really show back up with further Iced Earth releases till "Alive in Athens",
Stormrider is a must must must buy for any metalhead. Man I love this type Power Metal...