NIGHT OF THE STORMRIDER

'''Night of the Stormrider''' is Iced Earth's second full-length album and is a concept album about a man who is betrayed by religion and turns away from it in anger. The dark forces of nature reach out to this enraged man and use him as their vessel to bring death and destruction to Earth. He is commanded to travel to a desert, where he is given visions that reveal the truth of humanity, and warp his mind further to make him the "Stormrider." After the destruction of the world, he is then damned forever into the depths of Hell, also referenced as the River Styx. After being forever damned and taunted by evil spirits, he eventually sees what he has done, and realizes that it is too late to repent.
Night of the Stormrider is the only album featuring lead singer John Greely and drummer Rick Secchiari.
As with Iced Earth and Burnt Offerings, the remastered version has a new cover.

Contents

Track listing

Personnel

Track listing

#"Angels Holocaust" (Schaffer) – 4:52
#"Stormrider" (Schaffer/Shawver) – 4:47
#"The Path I Choose" (Schaffer/Shawver) – 5:52
#"Before the Vision" (Abell/Schaffer/Shawver) – 1:35
#"Mystical End" (Schaffer) – 4:44
#"Desert Rain" (Abell/Schaffer) – 6:56
#"Pure Evil" (Schaffer/Shawver) – 6:33
#"Reaching the End" (Schaffer) – 1:11
#"Travel in Stygian" (Schaffer) – 9:31
''Notes''

★ Iced Earth re-released all of their work previous to ''The Dark Saga'' in 2001 in the form of a collectors box-set entitled ''Dark Genesis''. Each album was remixed and remastered with vastly improved sound quality and an updated album cover.

★ Many songs released by Iced Earth previous to the album ''The Dark Saga'' were redone on the 1997 album ''Days of Purgatory'' with new vocal tracks by vocalist Matt Barlow, new drum and/or guitar tracks, and remixed for superior sound quality.

★ Rhythm Guitarist Jon Schaffer does the vocals on the song "Stormrider".

★ The intro music of the first track "Angels Holocaust" is taken from ''Carmina Burana''

Personnel

★ Tom Morris - Producer

★ Kent Smith - Introduction

★ Dirk Rudolph - Layout Design

★ Jon Schaffer - Rhythm guitar, Backing Vocals, Producer

★ Rick Borstelman - Back Cover

★ Axel Hermann - Cover Art

★ Randall Shawver - lead guitar, Soloist

★ Dave Abell - Bass Guitar

★ Frank Albrecht - Photography

★ John Greely - Vocals

★ Rick Secchiari - Drums

★ Roger "The Hammer" Huff - Keyboards