2nd Review of **** Days of Purgatory by Iced Earth – All That Metallica Could Have Been

While Metallica stopped writing music like this, Iced Earth stepped up and filled the void, and did it even better that Metallica had ever done.  Iced Earth packs the punch of Metallica’s heaviest songs like Damage Inc., and for lack of originality I subtracted a star.  However, don’t let that stop you from purchasing this album, as it is a tremendous work of art, and maybe on a different day of the week I would have rated it 5 stars, just depending on the mood that I am in.

I first got into Iced Earth about 14 years ago.  That would be 1999.  Days of Purgatory was my first purchase from this band.  Perhaps, that makes me a dinosaur, but when I put these discs into the player they never disappoint me.  I wouldn’t be surprised if I could listen to this stuff by itself indefinitely without getting tired of it.  The only reason to move on and put different stuff in my player is for the sake of diversifying, not out of getting bored of the songs.