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 Melancholy - Iced Earth
 Melancholy - Iced Earth ... Melancholy [Holy Martyr]2 Shooting Star 3 Watching Over Me 4 Electric Funeral 5 I Died for You 6 Ripper 7 Colors Newest Review: ... one ballad among many from the band's 1998 album 'Something Wicked This Way Comes,' but it has the bonus of being the most ... more ... effective, before the album's bipolar pairings of fast and slow songs started to get seriously distracting.
'Melancholy' is a fine metal ballad that avoids sounding overly soft, contrived or cheesy, and this is also Matt Barlow's finest performance of the album. The main problem with this E.P. is that it focuses squarely on this power-ballad side of the band that isn't a truly honest representation of their sound, following up with the very similar (yet less effective) 'Watching Over Me' and 'I Died For You,' the latte...more |
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Melancholy - Iced Earth: The Melancholy E.P. (244 words)
by - written on 27/07/08 (Very useful, 16 readings)
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Finally beginning to gain the attention they deserve at the end of the nineties, ironically long after their classic and most creative period, Iced Earth swallowed its collective pride and released the closest thing they could to a mainstream rock single. The eponymous 'Melancholy' is in reality only one ballad among many from the band's 1998 album 'Something Wicked This Way Comes,' but it has the bonus of being the most effective, before the album's bipolar pairings of fast and slow songs started to get seriously distracting. 'Melancholy' is a fine metal ballad that avoids sounding overly soft, contrived or cheesy, and this is also Matt Barlow's finest ... Read the complete review
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