other than the high stuff it hardly even sounds like block singing

Dude has reinvented his voice.

And the new Dante's Inferno slays, tbh. I mean, it can't beat the old version, but still.

it was the same thing with slightly worse vocals, I get it as a sampler for stu but there's nothing in it for me that sets it apart

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3IQPp96otg[/url]

the only power metal ive come across recently is the new Stormwarrior album and it was decent. not quite at the level of awesomeness as Heading Northe

http://www.psychocydd.co.uk/details.php?id=217ecbaa5b25578624a8ce67d3a09534d0e12e01

NEW IICEDEARTH LEAKDED AAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@!1

it's really terrible

[i]Ugh, band X hasn't completely reinvented itself into a way that satisfies my completely unrealistic expectations, and the new album, Y, isn't even the most innovating thing ever, it's soo terrible![/i]

you're going to go that way with it, are you?

I really enjoy all IE albums up until their last album where they not only stagnated, they forgot to write riffs, hooks and song structures which aren't identical

they weren't exactly known for innovation for their first 8 albums, but nice assumptions bro

Lol, reading that back now makes me realise that was a bit of a dick-post of me.

Framing Armageddon and (especially) The Crucible of Man were pretty bad albums, I agree. I think Dystopia is finally a step in the right direction again. It's not nearly as good as some of their best material, but to say it's terrible is too much. If this wasn't an IE album, but a debut from another band, people would hail it as being fucking amazing.

it's crucible of man redux almost exactly for me. They sound like the same album with a (slightly) different lead singer.

No memorable songs, Stu Block is held back a huge amount and it just lacks intensity.

I mean even a song like 10,000 Strong from a few albums back had some power and drive, and it just seems to have disappeared over these last 2 albums.

Couldn't that (in part) be due to the production too, though? I personally think this album is way overproduced, and generally feel that overproduced albums tend to make things sound sterile.

maybe but I don't notice anything huge from Framing Armageddon which I actually like a decent amount

but then ripper is awesome so he could have hidden a lot of faults