I'm a horror fan, so an album with songs devoted to different horror films/characters has an appeal for me straight away. And this is classic horror; no Jason, Freddy or Michael here (leave that to death metal). Rather, we have Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man and even the Creature From The Black Lagoon, although it might seem a bit puzzling to include Jack The Ripper here, since he was factual, wasn't he?
I've never been a big Iced Earth fan, although their previous album,
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, won me over more than the ones before it. The music here (with drummer Richard Christy making his debut) is quite good, something that I find myself getting into the more I listen to it, but it's the topics that really make it for me, and make it jump from a good album to a very good one.
***1/2
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