In 2021, following Schaffer's involvement in the storming of the U.S.
#ICED EARTH DISCOGRAPHY KAT UPDATE#
In a video update in 2011, Schaffer and Kürsch talked about the future of Demons & Wizards and stated, that it was only a matter of their schedules lining up when they are going to start work on a third album. From October 2011, to December 2012, Iced Earth toured in support of Dystopia, during which time they recorded the album Live in Ancient Kourion. With Block, the band recorded the album Dystopia, which was released on October 17, 2011. Matt Barlow was later replaced by Stu Block from Into Eternity, who had opened for Iced Earth in 2008. In 2011, after about two years back in the band, Matt Barlow issued a statement saying that he was leaving Iced Earth in order to spend more time with his family. The second album, The Crucible of Man: Something Wicked Part 2, was released September 5, 2008, and featured Matt once again on vocals. The first album, Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1 was released on September 11, 2007, after which, in December 2007, it was announced that Matt Barlow would be returning to Iced Earth. The Glorious Burden was released in January 2004, after which Jon started work on two concept albums based on his Something Wicked storyline.
Matt was replaced by former Judas Priest-singer Tim "Ripper" Owens, who resung the entire album. Originally Matt Barlow had recorded the vocal tracks for the album, but due to his lack of interest in the band following the events of 9/11, he left the group in 2003 and joined the Georgetown Police Department in Georgetown, Delaware. Īfter Something Wicked This Way Comes, Iced Earth released the album Horror Show in 2001, after which work began on the follow-up album, The Glorious Burden. The songs tell the story of a character that Jon created, called Set Abominae, who also appears on the album's front cover. The band released the albums Burnt Offerings and The Dark Saga in 19 respectively, until in 1998, Iced Earth released the album Something Wicked This Way Comes, which featured three songs ("Prophecy", "Birth of the Wicked" and "The Coming Curse") that were based on Jon Schaffer's Something Wicked concept. Schaffer performing with Iced Earth in 2010Īfter some downtime between 19, Iced Earth re-emerged with a new line up, which included singer Matt Barlow, who would stay with the band until 2003. While in Tampa, Schaffer slept in his car until he nearly lost his life in a car accident, after which he got an apartment and a job as a roofer. Shortly before he left, one of Schaffer's childhood friends died in a motorcycle accident, which made Schaffer even more determined to move to Florida and start a band.
In 1984, at the age of 16, Schaffer moved to Tampa, Florida. According to Schaffer, this had an effect on him forming a band, so that he could "prove these people wrong". Allegedly, on one occasion, one of the pastors "shoved a bar of soap down Schaffer's throat", because the pastor felt threatened by his refusal to submit, after he could not answer Schaffer's questions about evolution versus creationism. Schaffer went to a Lutheran school for five years, during which he developed a lot of anger and rebellion, due to the abusive nature of the pastors. Since then, he has said that this was the moment when he realized what he wanted to do for a living.
In 1979, at the age of eleven, Schaffer attended a Kiss concert with his father.
His older sister introduced Jon to bands such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, and Blue Öyster Cult. Schaffer was originally introduced to rock music at the age of three.
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