Description

The 1999 release of The Melancholy from Iced Earth gave many fans a taste of the bands ability to record cover songs. The band have chosen some metal classics and given them some new blood. The album also includes two tracks from ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’ and a track from ‘The Dark Saga’. This 2001 re-release comes with two bonus tracks. A Judas Priest cover and a previously unreleased live version of ‘Colors’ that were recorded at the same time as ‘Alive in Athens’ but left off the initial release of that album.

Track listing:
1. Melancholy (Holy Martyr)
2. Shooting Star-Bad Company cover
3. Watching Over Me
4. Electric Funeral-Black Sabbath cover
5. I Died for You
6. The Ripper-Judas Priest cover
7. Colors-live in Athens