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| 2.0 poor | PerpetualChange | December 30th 13 |
"Death Magnetic" style production. Does this band have a bassist? Inspired title track. Surpsingly good "demonic chorus" style background vocals on several tracks - works to mix up IE's recent blandness. Stu Block's posturing "deep" voice wears poorly as the album progresses. The songs begin to sound too similar for an album of this little cohesion. The intro to "Cthulhu" where Stu sings in his natural voice is the best musical moment on the album.
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| 2.0 poor | Xenorazr | August 13th 14 |
Plagues of Babylon sees Iced Earth continue their slump into the territory of wasted potential with long stretches of boredom and rare moments of enjoyment. Babylon isn't alone in playing host to this plague.
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| 2.5 average | Trey STAFF | March 30th 14 |
It's Iced Earth doing Iced Earth as only Iced Earth can do.
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| 3.0 good | Fernando Alves STAFF | February 7th 14 |
Despite being inferior to Dystopia, Plagues of Babylon still features some nice songs. The second half of the album is more interesting.
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| 2.5 average | stagemaster | January 23rd 14 |
Uninspiring. Not one single riff really sticks out.. I believe they rushed this after the hit with Dystopia.
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| 2.5 average | zombietransit | January 7th 14 |
Very predictable, but energetic enough to keep some listening.
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| 3.0 good | Voivod STAFF | January 5th 14 |
Iced Earth don't know how to record a really bad album and Plagues of Babylon is no exception, still the new Iced Earth offering does not have enough potential to re-invite someone to listen to it repeatedly, with the exception of Stu Block's vocals, which are as engaging as always.
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| 0.0 | JCGold14 | January 4th 14 |
Very samey, extremely dissapointing from a great band, especially after Dystopia
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| 4.0 excellent | facastroe | January 3rd 14 |
tenia altas expectativas en este album, pero tampoco es malo, tiene canciones muy buenas como: Plagues of Babylon, Among the Living Dead, Peacemaker, The Culling, pero me parece que pudo ser mejor
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| 2.5 average | Alabaster Jones | September 1st 17 |
It would seem that Iced Earth, after the little shot in the arm that was Dystopia, fell back into old habits again. Plagues Of Babylon is not quit the extension of the traction its predecessor was able to gain, despite what the solid second half would have you feel. Unfortunately, during the first half the band go back to that all-too-familiar and all-too-uneventful formula of chugging along at mid-pace with choruses superfluously caked with agitating backing vocals. The second half finally picks things up; things are faster and more succinct, and when the slower moments do come they're done with noted competence. Still, when it takes a good half-hour to get to the good stuff on an hour long record, it's going to have some problems. They could've easily trimmed this down to Dystopia's length and gotten off with another good effort, but what can you do? It's good that they'd get back a bit of their swagger with this year's surprisingly good Incorruptible.
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| 3.5 great | Brabiz | August 28th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | MrIceTea | February 25th 23 |
| 1.5 very poor | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | June 27th 22 |
| 2.0 poor | Jgpj95 | March 14th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Harlz | March 7th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Mitch | October 15th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Samuel | September 13th 20 |
| 2.5 average | gk1979 | June 27th 20 |
| 2.5 average | mEyck07 | December 23rd 19 |
| 3.0 good | dcube | November 14th 19 |
| 3.0 good | tellah | September 15th 19 |
| 2.5 average | Axl752 | September 29th 18 |
| 2.5 average | Nowy | July 15th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | Aranox | February 23rd 18 |
| 3.5 great | vkristi | December 12th 17 |
| 2.5 average | MailCom | October 30th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Diced | July 30th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Xurxo | November 8th 16 |
| 1.5 very poor | Lanas | July 23rd 16 |
| 3.5 great | musixxx | December 22nd 15 |
| 2.5 average | Bierlag | October 24th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Tib | July 22nd 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jwar375 | October 7th 14 |
| 2.0 poor | Prole | August 15th 14 |
| 3.5 great | ngk44 | April 20th 14 |
| 3.5 great | wizorz | April 4th 14 |
| 3.0 good | tg103 | February 26th 14 |
| 1.5 very poor | Subrick | February 21st 14 |
| 3.0 good | manosg EMERITUS | February 19th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | gallus90 | February 15th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | th3worm | February 14th 14 |
| 3.0 good | theleo | February 4th 14 |
| 3.5 great | jc3494 | January 30th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | zyklzy | January 27th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Gbhill | January 22nd 14 |
| 5.0 classic | ranur | January 21st 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | zathyrx | January 12th 14 |
| 1.5 very poor | Fjolnir | January 6th 14 |
| 3.0 good | DFHall | January 6th 14 |
| 2.5 average | Andrew | January 6th 14 |
| 2.5 average | Digis | January 4th 14 |
| 3.0 good | Crawl | December 31st 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | adace1 | December 27th 13 |
| 3.5 great | AleksiS | December 27th 13 |
| 1.0 awful | hsb | December 27th 13 |
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