Kragens - Infight (2007)

1) Deaf and Blind
2) Lake of Fire
3) Angels Among Monsters
4) Tyranny of God
5) Ten Treasons We Fight
6) The Falling Man
7) Only The Weak Survive
8) Mask of the Damned
9) Metalize

After listening to Kragens, I can actually say that there's at least one French metal band I enjoy. Kragens of France plays a brand of power/thrash quite similar to that of Nevermore. However, Kragens vocalist Renaud Espeche (who sounds like a cross between Warrel Dane and Roy Khan) also employs the use of harsh vocals. Infight is the band's third full-length release. I really don't have much else to say, but listen, headbang, and enjoy!

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Steel - Heavy Metal Machine (1998)

Track Listing :

1. Heavy Metal Machine
2. Rock Tonight
3. Say Goodbye (To Love)
4. The Green Manalishi


This is Mikael Åkerfeldt, Anders Nordin and Peter Lindgren (Opeth members at the time) with Dan Swano (Bloodbath) on vocals. Except this record is nothing like Opeth or Bloodbath, this is old school power metal a la Judas Priest. I never thought those musicians could ever pull off this sound. True 80's heavy metal. Hope you enjoy.

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Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider (1992)

1) Angels Holocaust
2) Stormrider
3) The Path I Choose
4) Before the Vision
5) Mystical End
6) Desert Rain
7) Pure Evil
8) Reaching the End
9) Travel in Stygian

"Reda Lakchiri (New York, NY) wrote
at 5:55pm

Hasan, where is Night Of The Stormrider? how dare you upload iced earth and not THAT album?"

Happy now?

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Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon (2007)/The Crucible of Man (2008)

Let's go back in time for a little while. It's 1997 and Iced Earth has just released their fifth full-length album Something Wicked This Way Comes. The last three tracks tell the story of Set Abominae and the rise and fall of mankind entitled Something Wicked. These three tracks have a total playing time of about 20 minutes.

Now let's go back to 2008. Last year Iced Earth released Framing Armageddon, the first album of two that tell an expanded version of the Something Wicked story. Framing Armageddon tells the story up to the birth of Set Abominae. This album (as well as Iced Earth's previous album The Glorious Burden) features former Judas Priest singer, Tim "Ripper" Owens on vocals.

In September of this year, Iced Earth will release the second and final part of Something Wicked, The Crucible of Man. The second album continues the story where Framing Armageddon left off and ends with the destruction of mankind at the hands of the Setian race. On this album, legendary singer Matt Barlow returns to take over for Ripper.

For the ultimate listening experience, play these two albums back to back. Trust me, it will be epic.

Framing Armageddon

1) Overture
2) Something Wicked (Part 1)
3) Invasion
4) Motivation of Man
5) Setian Massacre
6) A Charge To Keep
7) Reflections
8) Ten Thousand Strong
9) Execution
10) Order of the Rose
11) Cataclysm
12) The Clouding
13) Infiltrate and Assimilate
14) Retribution Through The Ages
15) Something Wicked (Part 2)
16) The Domino Decree
17) Framing Armageddon
18) When Stars Collide (Born Is He)
19) The Awakening

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The Crucible of Man

1) In Sacred Flames
2) Behold The Wicked Child
3) Minions of the Watch
4) The Revealing
5) A Gift Or A Curse
6) Crown of the Fallen
7) The Dimensional Gauntlet
8) I Walk Alone
9) Harbinger of Fate
10) Crucify the King
11) Sacrificial Kingdoms
12) Something Wicked (Part 3)
13) Divide and Devour
14) Come What May
15) Epilogue

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