Sorry to drag this thread back up, but it keeps people's last reactions current.
Iced Earth has a new vocalist: Tim Owens, lately of Judas Priest. Here's the link to the story on Blabbermouth, which has some samples of the songs from the new record:
Former JUDAS PRIEST Singer Joins ICED EARTH
Mixed feelings...Ripper's definitely got the equipment, and Jon's domination will cure him of his nu-metal-cover-band habit, but it still aint Matt, which is weird, as Matt spent more time in Iced Earth than all other singers before him combined (going back to Purgatory days), actually had a good working relationship with Jon, and sung on 80% of their best material and was re-recorded onto the rest.
I'm behind work filtering and can't check out the samples, any reactions?
--K