1. “Born a Rebel” (Lulis, Göttlich)
2. “Adrenalin” (Lulis, Göttlich)
3. “One for All” (Lulis, Göttlich)
4. “World Is War” (Lulis, Göttlich)
5. “Dragons Fly” (Lulis, Eilen, Göttlich)
6. “Queen of Spades” (Lulis, Göttlich)
7. “Iron Flames” (Lulis, Eilen, Göttlich)
8. “Through the Fire” (Lulis, Göttlich, Seifert)
9. “Devil’s Child” (Lulis, Göttlich, Seifert)
10. “Meet Your Demon” (Lulis, Black, Göttlich)
11. “Power of Evil” (Lulis, Göttlich)

Rebellion é uma banda de Heavy Metal alemă criada pelo ex-guitarrista do Grave Digger, Uwe Lullis junto com o ex-baixista também do Grave Digger, Tomi Götlich.

Inicialmente eles escreveram um album sobre MacBeth, e esse, Born a Rebel, depois eles iniciaram um projeto de contar sagas nórdicas em tręs volumes, dos quais dois já sairam.

Born a Rebel

Um poderia dizer até, Heavy Metal clichę, porém eu digo Heavy Metal para Homens. O vocal de Michael Seifter é sem dúvida um dos vocais mais interessantes que eu já vi no Heavy Metal, é crú o suficiente para vocę saber que estamos falando de Heavy Metal bom, poderia até falar que lembra um pouco de Motorhead. Da parte da guitarra de Uwe Lullis, năo tem nem o que falar, Grave Digger fala por sí só, bases bem pesadas, solos relativamente simples, porém belos.

Uma coisa que me deixou um tanto quanto descepcionado, foi a bateria, eu acho que poderia ter ficado um pouco mais pesada, coisa que eles arrumaram tranquilamente nos albums sobre os Vikings.

Resultado:

Iced Earth – Framing Armageddon

Songs:

1.) Overture
2.) Something Wicked (Part 1)
3.) Invasion
4.) Motivation of Man
5.) Setian Massacre
6.) A Charge to Keep
7.) Reflections
8.) Ten Thousand Strong
9.) Execution
10.) Order of the Rose
11.) Cataclysm
12.) The Clouding
13.) Infiltrate and Assimilate
14.) Retribution Through the Ages
15.) Something Wicked (Part 2)
16.) The Domino Decree
17.) Framing Armageddon
18.) When Stars Collide (Born is He)
19.) The Awakening

 Review

Iced Earth just isn’t the same anymore. Without Matt Barlow, at least to me, it seems just like a heavier and more ”complicated” Judas Priest. Of course this has to do almost only because of the new lead singer, Tim Owens, which is the former singer from Judas Priest, after Rob Hallford. Right on the first track, you can see that this album is different, and is the follow up of the Something Wicked This Way Comes album (which in my personal opinion, is the greatest album from Iced Earth). It’s a fully instrumental track, that can literally take you out to ancient Egypt. Right on the second track, you can see that this is still Iced Earth, albeit a little heavier, and with more backing vocals, you will find one of the greatest riffs I’ve ever heard on this song, and at least for me, this is the best song of this entire album. On the beginning of the 3rd song, you can see that something has really changed, it’s new. The oldest albums from Iced Earth always seemed to me like a mix up from Iron Maiden and Blind Guardian, but way heavier, and it was good, it was old metal coming back to life. And this is just new, too new if you ask me.
Unfortunately, the other songs are just plain metal, with nothing to withstand for, except for the last track.
Now, this last track is something everyone should hear, really. It’s basically one of the greatest voice-instrumental songs I’ve ever heard, that instead of taking you off from Egypt, takes you in again, deeper and deeper, making you hope for Iced Earth to make a new album about Egypt, who knows? Maybe one day eh?

Overall

Well, it’s still Iced Earth, which means, it’s still Jon Schaffer’s songs, and they still kick ass, it’s just, different. It’s almost perfect.

Rating: 4/5