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'''Iced Earth''' is a [[Heavy Metal]] band from the United States that was founded in 1984 by rhythm guitarist Jon Schaffer. Their music tends to be a combination of traditional heavy metal, thrash metal, and [[Power Metal]]. Many of their songs alternate between lighter passages and heavier, more aggressive parts. Many of their songs have dark fantasy-based themes and/or involve hell and damnation, although there are exceptions.
Iced Earth's line-up changes very frequently; Jon Schaffer is the only musician who has always been in the band. One of their singers, Matt Barlow, temporarily left the band in 2003, returning in 2008 for ''The Crucible of Man''. While he was gone, Tim "Ripper" Owens (the [[Replacement Scrappy]] for [[Judas Priest]]) sang in Iced Earth. [[Replacement Scrappy|And the fans raged as much as the Priest fans did during their own Owens era.]]
Barlow quit again in early 2011, and his replacement is Stu Block from Into Eternity.
Jon Schaffer also has two side projects, [[Demons and
They also have two songs in [[Brutal Legend]]'s soundtrack.▼
▲They also have two songs in ''[[Brutal Legend]]'''s soundtrack.
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Current Line-up:
* Jon Schaffer (Rhythm Guitar,
* Stu Block (Lead Vocals,
* Troy Seele (Lead Guitar,
* Freddie Vicales (Bass,
* Bret Smedley (Drums, 1996-1997, 1998-1999, 2006-present)
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* 1990 - ''Iced Earth''
* 1991 - ''Night of the Stormrider''
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* 2011 - ''Dystopia''
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* [[Anti-Anti-Christ]]: Played with in The Crucible of Man. {{spoiler|Set Abominae decides not to destroy humanity after all, but makes it pretty clear that if they fuck up too badly, he's on them.}}
* [[Concept Album]]: Over half of their albums.<ref>''Night of the Stormrider'', ''The Dark Saga'', ''Horror Show'', ''The Glorious Burden'', the ''Something Wicked'' series, and ''Dystopia''.</ref>
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: Burnt Offerings was recorded when Schaffer was going through an ugly divorce and a lot of in-fighting within the band, all while suffering from a bad back injury.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Although IE's music generally has very little swearing, Jon Schaffer has a tendency to do this in interviews.
* [[Epic Rocking]]: Most notably the sixteen minute "Dante's Inferno", but also:
** Gettysburg 1863: Three songs covering [[American Civil War|the three days of battle]], approximately 30 minutes in total. Epic beyond words.
** There's also the 'Dark Saga Trilogy' encompassing 'Suffering Scarred', 'Slave to the Dark', and 'A Question of Heaven', in total they're about
*** Early classics "When The Night Falls" and "Travel In Stygian" last 8 and 9 minutes respectively.
* [[Fighting Your Friend]]: Hold at All Costs
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Is my dearest friend in this world
He wears the blue, and I, the gray
And God it hurts me so..." }}
* [[Filk Song]]: [[Spawn|''The Dark Saga'']], ''Horror Show'', ''Dystopia'', and some others.
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* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Set Abominae at the end of ''The Crucible of Man''.}}
* [[Humanity on Trial]]: With Set Abominae as the judge.
* [[Humans Are
* [[I Am the Band]]: Again, Jon Schaffer ''is'' Iced Earth.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Earlier albums are more thrash/power metal and later albums are slightly more radio-friendly hard rock, though still fairly dark and aggressive.
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** And officially accepted as well: Todd McFarlane provided the cover art for the album.
* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]: Night Of The Stormrider takes place from the point of view of a decidedly evil person, who we still feel sorry for as he meets his doom.
* [[Protest Song]]: Little of Iced Earth's main output barring ''The Glorious Burden''
* [[Revolving Door Band]]: Aside from Jon Schaffer being the only constant member, they have had 5 different singers over the course of 10 albums. First Gene Adam, then John Greely, Matt Barlow, Tim 'Ripper' Owens (who you may know as being Rob Halford's very similar-sounding replacement in [[Judas Priest]]), back to Matt, and now Stu Block.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: Inverted. The Setians are the original inhabitants of the earth, and the humans are alien invaders.
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