Florida’s Iced Earth are a long running institution in the metal world who have straddled almost as many sub-genres as they have had members. Well, OK, that last part is an exaggeration… over 30 different musicians have passed through Iced Earth since the band’s inception in 1985. The only constant has been main songwriter and rhythm guitarist Jon Schaffer. One former member of note is their long-time vocalist Matt Barlow who, after 9/11, decided that he wanted to make meaningful contributions to “the real world” and left Iced Earth to become a police officer.

Check out the track “Damien” from Iced Earth’s classic 2001 album
Horror Show. Barlow is the singer on this recording.

On April 16, 2013, Iced Earth will release their new CD/DVD/Blu-Ray called Live In Ancient Kourion, which is available for pre-order now in Deluxe 3-Disc CD/DVD and 2-Disc CD formats.

Live In Ancient Kourion, which is being released by Century Media in North America, is the band’s first officially recorded DVD/Blu-Ray and is taken from a 2.5 hour show filmed in December 2011 in the ancient Kourion Theater in Limassol, Cyprus during Iced Earth’s tour for their last studio album Dystopia.

You can watch the trailer for the Live In Ancient Kourion release, along with two songs from the DVD, as well as listen to two tracks, here below.