Random Track of the Day
Wednesday, September 7 2011
Looks like more from those frozen guys from our home planet! Yes, it's Iced Earth again, with a very Iron Maiden-sounding track about those magnificent men in their flying machines. This is taken from their album “The glorious burden”, and it's called "Red Baron/Blue Max".
Red Baron/Blue Max --- Iced Earth --- from “The glorious burden” on SPV
Always a fun thing to write songs about, the two World Wars provide great scope for lyrics. I'm biased of course but I believe the ones who make the best use of this is Iron Maiden, with the likes of “Aces high”, “Tailgunner” and “Where eagles dare”, but Iced Earth do a good job here with the tale of the World War One German flying ace, Manfred Von Richtofen, otherwise known as the Red Baron. Nothing overly special about the song: good heavy rocker, great guitars and the singer sounds very like Bruce Dickinson. You can almost hear the chatter of machine guns as the aces battle it out in the bullet-strewn skies over France....