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"Incorruptible" is the twelfth studio album by American heavy metal band Iced Earth. It was released on June 16, 2017, by Century Media.
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Incorruptible is the veteran band’s 12th album of 100% pure American power metal and the third to feature the talented Stu Block on vocals. In many ways it’s exactly the album you’d expect from Mr. Schaffer and company at this stage of their career. It’s full of thick riffs, powerful vocals and tales of bravery, battles and brotherhood. There are no surprises or innovations, as it clearly was designed to play to the Iced Earth base. In fact, Incorruptible sounds like the band toiled mightily to find the sweet spot between classic albums like The Dark Saga and Something Wicked This Way Comes and Ripper-era outings like The Glorious Burden. So it’s no surprise the main feeling I get from Incorruptible is one of familiarity. Opener “Great Heathen Army” could appear on any Iced album from 1998 onward. Those classic Schaffer riffs crest and crash like iron waves on a sheet-metal beach and Stu does his best Barlow-meets-Ripper impression with his commanding and authoritative voice. It’s the quintessential IE song and fun in their epic yet meat-headed way. You won’t walk away unhappy, but it doesn’t promise a new Pax Romana for the band. Better still is pirate yarn “Black Flag,” which has a bigger-than-life feel and plenty of buccaneer badassery. The song wins bonus points for mentioning a letter of marque and the refrain of “we live out our days with barrels of rum, black powder and the flash of the blade” is free-booting fun without reminding me of that “other” pirate act currently harassing AMG commerce.
Incorruptible is more or less what I was expecting from Iced Earth, though I was hoping for a little more. It’s a solid album with a few above-average cuts and fans will probably be pleased. Reviewed by angrymetalguy.com
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