Iced Earth - Glorious Burden
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Glorious Burden
Artist : Iced Earth
List Price : $22.98 USD
Your Price : $19.99 USD
ProductGroup: Music
Release Date : 2004-01-13
Studio : Hunter
Label : Hunter
Avg. Customer Rating :  (188 reviews)
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Customer Reviews for Glorious Burden
Gettysburg is AWESOME!
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This albums is great, epic and patriotic. Iced Earth is the only good american metal band. The only complaints I have is that Gettysburg should have been longer, especially High Water Mark, it always leaves me wanting for more. And the absence of Matt Barlow, that voice can't be replaced.
Customer Reviews for Glorious Burden Cd
Gettysburg is Epic!
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Unfortunatly, as a whole I can only give this album four stars, but Gettysburg is easily one of the greatest songs ever written. So Matt Barlow doesn't have vocal duties on this album? Big deal. It is still better than most of the junk you'll hear on the radio, and it is worth purchasing for the Gettysburg Trilogy alone.
The three parts of Gettysburg highlight the events of July 1,2, and 3 of 1863, and run right around 30 minutes in length from beginning to end. That is double the length of the epic 16 minute Dante's Inferno from Burnt Offerings
"The Devil To Pay" starts with the Star Spangled Banner. Soon the southern theme of Dixie invades and then the sound of cannon. The events of July 1st, 1863 follow. "Hold At All Costs" highlights the stand of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top on day 2.
However, the third act is the crown jewel of the album. "High Water Mark" starts with Tim "Ripper" Owens as General Lee and Jon Schaffer as General Longstreet. They have an exchange and then Pickets Charge is sung of in all its romantic glory.
Want more? I highly recommend you read The Killer Angels by Sharra if you want more of Gettysburg. I know many people don't like to read. You are in luck! There is a movie adaptation of the book called Gettysburg (Widescreen Edition). Hey, if you don't like the movie just fast forward to the battle scenes and crank Iced Earth to 11. Just a thought. Man, I'm a geek.
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