Iced Earth announces NEW singer[views:13997][posts:16]________________________________ [Mar 16,2011 12:55pm - Pires ""] In the wake of vocalist Matt Barlow's retirement, dozens of demos and resumes flooded Iced Earth's management team. But one name kept popping up – Into Eternity vocalist Stu Block, who has been named the new lead singer for Iced Earth. According to Schaffer, Robert Kampf, CEO of Century Media, early on suggested Block, whose band Into Eternity was previously on the CM label. That reminded Schaffer of one night in September, 2008, when Into Eternity opened for Iced Earth. "Iced Earth was backstage waiting to go on," said Schaffer. "We heard one of Stu's incredible wails. I remember turning to Matt and saying, ‘Damn, that dude has serious range.'" So while Iced Earth's management team sifted through the growing number of prospective vocalists, Schaffer got in touch with Block. After several phone conversations with the then-prospective Iced Earth vocalist, Schaffer asked his manager to e-mail Block several key Iced Earth songs, with the vocals stripped. Block went into his studio and recorded himself singing, then sent the files back to the team. The result landed Block an intense two days at Schaffer's studio where the two musicians hit it off. "I felt a lot of chemistry between us, we knocked out a couple of great original pieces of music in no time" said Schaffer. "He's very good at coming up with catchy melodies, and will help with lyrical duties as well. There's no doubt Stu has an amazing vocal range and a lot of energy, but he also has the touring experience, which is a big plus for our plans of performing in all corners of the world." In addition, Schaffer said Block has what Iced Earth needs in a front an: "stage presence that includes high energy, passion, and focused rage." "Stu is charismatic and understands the depth and varying emotions in Iced Earth's music," said Schaffer. "So he will embody not only the emotion of our songs, but he will be able to perform them in a dynamic way. I believe fans are in for some incredible records and live shows in the coming years." New Iced Earth vocalist Stu Block concurs: "Iced Earth fans are wonderful, wonderful people," he said. "The music is so passionate. So they're passionate, and very loyal to the band. I am, too. I'm a huge fan of Iced Earth myself. So I share that same passion, and I will show it on stage. I think the fans are really going to dig it." Block continues: "It's a huge honor to be doing this, to be part of this team," he said. "It's a dream come true, for sure." Schaffer is totally stoked. "This is a new beginning," he said. "It's game-on time. Iced Earth is going to record and tour like it never has before. The band is really amped-up and ready to hit the ground running in November." Source: Lambgoat.com |
| ________________________________________ [Mar 16,2011 2:47pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] Eeeewwwwwww |
| ________________________________________ [Mar 16,2011 2:53pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] Jeff Hardy should stick to senton bombs and bad tattoos. [img] |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 16,2011 2:54pm - Alx_Casket ""] Is Stu going to stick with Into Eternity as well? That's a lot of song and dance from one man. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 16,2011 3:06pm - LucidCurse ""] :point: |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 16,2011 9:36pm - Spaldino ""] so they boot out Ripper for Barlow... and after the new Barlow album sucked 14 bags of gorilla dicks... Barlow quits... makes sense. Ripper IE was awesome. |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 16,2011 9:40pm - Spaldino ""] time to listen to the Gettysburg trilogy |
| ______________________________ [Mar 16,2011 9:55pm - blue ""] i love this dude on album, but good god does he not deliver live |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 16,2011 10:01pm - TheRidersofDoom ""] Ripper was better than barlow's last album with IE. I hate Stu, the old Into Eternity singer was much better wait...Iced Earth, Into Eternity, IE IE?!!! |
| ________________________________________ [Mar 16,2011 10:08pm - NuclearWinter ""] My lasting image of this band is the 200 year old man they had on stage when they played The Palladium some years ago. |
| _______________________________ [Mar 16,2011 10:08pm - blue ""] what am i talking about, im not even going to pay attention to the new iced earth album. the past like 3 albums have totally bored me. |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 16,2011 11:13pm - Aegathis ""] Theyre probably just getting him for the stage presence and experience, ive seen many live videos of this guy singing for Into Eternity and it just sounded fucking ridiculous. Kinda gave me the impression that Tim Roth did most of the vocals on the albums that Stu "sang" on. |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 16,2011 11:31pm - TheRidersofDoom ""] NuclearWinter said:My lasting image of this band is the 200 year old man they had on stage when they played The Palladium some years ago. hahahah my friends and I called that dude Papa Schaffer, he works the the palladium doing something. He was huge had a zues beard and was in a wheel chair draped in an American flag at that metalfest, at other concerts I've seen him in the balcony watching like a greek god his mortals toil |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 16,2011 11:34pm - TheRidersofDoom ""] blue said:what am i talking about, im not even going to pay attention to the new iced earth album. the past like 3 albums have totally bored me. I honestly consider the glorious burden, aside from the 9/11 cryfest song, to be one of their top albums. I mean...the gettysburg trilogy, red baron, attila, greenface, the reckoning it was pretty much just an album based off of their song 1776 and that other song they had about war |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 17,2011 12:07am - i_am_not_me ""] TheRidersofDoom said: I honestly consider the glorious burden, aside from the 9/11 cryfest song, to be one of their top albums. I mean...the gettysburg trilogy, red baron, attila, greenface, the reckoning And Waterloo got left off the US release in favor of an extra version of the 9/11 cryfest song. :facepalm: Valley Forge has some tasty lead work in it too. |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 17,2011 12:10am - TheRidersofDoom ""] I still have yet to find waterloo on soulseek, but I haven't looked since the album came out, time to go seek it's awesome cause there is this forty year old civil war nerd who happens to love old punk and also Napoleonic war, I've been contemplating introducing him to the Glorious Burden album seeing as it covers both topics and iced earth isn't too deep into the metal to scare away a fan of 80s punk and 80s metal |
| _____________________________________________ [Mar 19,2011 12:23pm - neverpurified nli ""] The 2 disc version of Glorious Burden has Waterloo. I'm glad I got that version when the album came out instead of the US single disc version. |