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[Iced Earth] Framing Armageddon featured several moments of brilliance, especially the epic “Ten Thousand Strong,” but Iced Earth spent too much time writing slower tracks and theatrical samples and not enough emphasis on writing the type of songs that brought Iced Earth into prominence—fist pumping, head banging heavy metal! They got it right this time, though, and Barlow’s voice provides the missing, nostalgic link to Something Wicked This Way Comes that simply didn’t exist with Ripper Owens.
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