Night of the Stormrider

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Night of the Stormrider
Night of the Stormrider cover
Studio album by Iced Earth
Released 1991 (Europe)
April 30, 1992 (USA)
Recorded Fullersound Studios
Genre Power metal
Thrash metal
Length 46:00
Label Century Media Records
Producer(s) Tom Morris
Professional reviews
Iced Earth chronology
Iced Earth
(1990)		 Night of the Stormrider
(1991)		 Burnt Offerings
(1995)


Night of the Stormrider is Iced Earth's second full-length album and is a concept album about a man who is betrayed by religion and turns away from it in anger. The dark forces of nature reach out to this enraged man and use him as their vessel to bring death and destruction to Earth.

Night of the Stormrider contains superior recording quality over the first Iced Earth album, a new vocalist and a new drummer.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Angels Holocaust" (Schaffer) – 4:52
  2. "Stormrider" (Schaffer/Shawver) – 4:47
  3. "The Path I Choose" (Schaffer/Shawver) – 5:52
  4. "Before the Vision" (Abell/Schaffer/Shawver) – 1:35
  5. "Mystical End" (Schaffer) – 4:44
  6. "Desert Rain" (Abell/Schaffer) – 6:56
  7. "Pure Evil" (Schaffer/Shawver) – 6:33
  8. "Reaching the End" (Schaffer) – 1:11
  9. "Travel in Stygian" (Schaffer) – 9:31

Notes

  • Iced Earth re-released all of their work previous to The Dark Saga in 2001 in the form of a collectors box-set entitled Dark Genesis. Each album was remixed and remastered with vastly improved sound quality and an updated album cover.
  • Many songs released by Iced Earth previous to the album The Dark Saga were redone on the 1997 album Days of Purgatory with new vocal tracks by vocalist Matt Barlow, new drum and/or guitar tracks, and remixed for superior sound quality.
  • Rhythm Guitarist Jon Schaffer does the vocals on the song "Stormrider".
  • The intro music of the first track "Angels Holocaust" is taken from Carmina Burana

[edit] Personnel

  • Tom Morris - Producer
  • Kent Smith - Introduction
  • Dirk Rudolph - Layout Design
  • Jon Schaffer - Rhythm guitar, Backing Vocals, Producer
  • Rick Borstelman - Back Cover
  • Axel Hermann - Cover Art
  • Randall Shawver - lead guitar, Soloist
  • Dave Abell - Bass Guitar
  • Frank Albrecht - Photography
  • John Greely - Vocals
  • Richey Secchiari - Drums
  • Roger "The Hammer" Huff - Keyboards
Iced Earth
Jon Schaffer | Tim 'Ripper' Owens | Brent Smedley | Tim Mills
Former members: Matthew Barlow | Ralph Santolla | Steve DiGiorgio | James MacDonough | Mark Prator | Richard Christy
Discography
Albums: Iced Earth | Night of the Stormrider | Burnt Offerings | The Dark Saga | Something Wicked This Way Comes | Horror Show | The Glorious Burden
E.P.'s and demos: Enter the Realm | The Melancholy E.P. | The Reckoning
Live albums: Alive in Athens
DVDs: Gettysburg (1863) | Alive in Athens
Other releases: Days of Purgatory | Dark Genesis | Tribute to the Gods | The Blessed and The Damned
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