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.

Night of the Stormrider contains superior recording quality over the first Iced Earth album, a new vocalist and a new drummer.

Track Listing

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

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
• Richey Secchiari  – Drums
• Roger "The Hammer" Huff – Keyboards