Iced Earth - Dante's Inferno 2011 (full)

THIS IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG
lyrics:
Through the fiery caverns we sail
Virgil at my side my guide and master
Questing through the nine plains of hell
Infernal wisdom shall fill my soul
Slowly now the days departing
The darkened air releases me
Frightening visions of my journey
Entrance me to limbo I'm not
Free
Abandon all hope who enter here
Enter the gates, Charon awaits
Abandon all hope who enter here
For this is where all things are left behind
Every doubt and every cowardice must die
Souls of rage and anger whipping in despair
The souls that wail on this plain pray for death
Denial is the reason for their suffering
Forever being stung by wasps and demons breath
The blood and tears that fall serve the maggots need
Descention, thrusting to the second plain
Minos judges as his tail twines
Lustful thoughts and greed whip these wretched souls
A hurricane of hate mocks their helpless pleas
Drifting now down deeper, into eternal flames
Awake at the third circle, the cold and filthy rain
Punished for their gluttony, languid for all time
The earth it stinks of corpses, damned for all time
The vicious beast Cerberus, three heads, blooded eyes
Tears his talons through the air, all the sinners cry
Down, be still thy cursed wolf
The master scorns its name
Dive to the next plain
The sullen and the vain
Suffer for greed
The prodigal they bleed
For all eternity
Plutus holds the key
Damned, the wrathful and the vain
Suffer the fifth plain
Cross the river Styx
Heed your crucifix
The mudded corpses cry
Howling to the sky
Reach the other side
Open wide the gate
Enter the sixth circle of barren land and flames
Passing through the gate of dis the furies scream her name
Belching forth in agony invoking her to rise
The spirit's rage consuming us the evil in their cries
Queen of vipers, queen of serpents
Cast their souls to stone
Spread to wealth of Gorgon's power
Medusa's inner soul
We're drawing ever closer to the seventh hell
They violate their neighbors, their god and themselves
We're sailing slowly through the boiling river of blood
Immersed in the depths below souls scream in agony
The twisted beast he laughs, he draws his arrow back
His sights on anyone exposing of their flesh
He impales their hearts with ease
And shrugs their piercing screams
Pity is they'll never die
They'll suffer here eternally
Imagine a place where every horror comes to life
Where every torture is real and time stands still
Eight fiery steps and we're closer to the end
In a cold and timeless grave buried head first in shit
Praying all the while for a quick & painless death
Scratching furiously at scabbed and oozing wounds
Lucifer ... angel of light
Cast below god of ice
Ruling hell unholy trinity
The traitors freeze for all eternity
Lucifer ... betrayer of god
Tormentor ruthless and cold
Judas' screaming here in agony
The traitors freeze for all eternity

[@ILLRICARDO]

its like having every iced earth singer in one godly voice... he can do owens,barlow, adams ,greely!!!! amazing!!!!

[@Tony11442]

Yet he does neither of them as good

[@ILLRICARDO]

@@Tony11442 I stopped listening to this band after the john Schaffer nonsense.

[@Tony11442]

@@ILLRICARDO Is John still in jail?

[@ILLRICARDO]

@@Tony11442 last I heard was that he was released under supervision, but is due for sentencing in Feb 2024.

[@Tony11442]

@@ILLRICARDO I just started listening to the band again yesterday after years of being away from metal altogether. I had a band 19 years ago we used to play their songs.

[@Sc0rpioX666]

I'm with you brother, Ripper is my favorite singer for Iced Earth, when I first heard his voice on 10,000 strong I was hooked.

[@OnurYemisen]

Stu has a lot more energy in this song than Matt but Matt pours another kind of soul to the song , both versions are awesome and have their own tastes , cannot really compare

[@w.j.warden5427]

5 years since this came out. My best friend played this for me in 2011 and I was immediately converted to Iced Earth. Hard to believe I was 13, feels like yesterday.

[@VanTemplar]

Best Iced Earth song!

[@ZORSHRINER]

Van Steel Amen brother. Amen. foxtwin.com/inferno/

[@jameshetfield7149]

i very doubt that, and not only very, alot.. night of the stormrider is one best and glorious burden!

[@jameshetfield7149]

i dont actually like Matt barlow..

[@IdlyObssv]

+Van Steel I agree this song is brilliant in every way and I don't care who's singing it. I love all IE singers.

[@tracker6520]

Finally! Art trascend the artists, well said! A Masterpiece is free. The artista who créate it actually liberate it

[@theDjh101]

I want to hear King Diamond sing some Iced Earth. 8)

[@ReverseGoingForward]

I hope we can all just agree that no matter what, Iced Earth just fuckin rocks

[@gabrielcampos8728]

The first "Abandon all hope" is cruel man, even better than The original. You really feel as if the Devil himself is screaming his welcome at you.

[@TheBushwooky]

Agreed, that part is definitely better than the original.

[@salemofficial2344]

Gabriel Campos the way he screams this is where all things are left behind is fucking awesome , sinister heavy and evil , iced earth fucking rocks

[@calwere]

This.

[@RAVENkipper]

17 minutes and 29 seconds of FUCKING AWESOMENESS

[@ronsin9490]

Haven’t listened to this version in a long time but I always loved the contrast of Stu to Matt on this. Such an eventful masterpiece of a track and while I personally give the nod to the original version, there are so many little cool subtleties that make this version badass. There’s things missing but things added that give it it’s own identity in the conversation and allow it to breathe a bit on its own. It’s wicked. Sty’s whispered layerings behind key spots and his delivery of the outro are epic.

[@LadyCowbell]

BLESS YOU, I've been looking for a really great quality full version of this forever!

[@shangri-la-la-la]

Important note of context for some of the changes. They do not normally have a keyboardist on tour which was one of the main things keeping them from playing the song on tour and only playing for special occasions like Alive in Athens where they has a keyboardist. They intentionally got rid of some some of the things so they have a version that they don't need a keyboardist for so it could sound mostly right as an option in a standard tour.

[@dazagib94]

Stu's intensity at "Lucifer" is fucking ace but the simple changes like the lack of the Latin chanting throughout most of the song and change to the far-inferior riff after the 2nd and 3rd verses mean the original shall always outshine this one but this is still a treat live, especially for the aforementioned "Lucifer!" Iced Earth though! \m/

[@stjepanknezevic7740]

jes is luciffer

[@MrZkoki]

The guitarist makes the strings of the instrument sing! I am truly envious of his talent. 😮

[@keafoleafo8368]

People are saying that the vocals are the problem, when it's really the production and lead guitar work that makes it sound less evil and sinister.

[@TheMeh115]

God I'm such a sucker for concept albums/songs. Dante's Inferno is a pretty high-peaking point... but nothing will ever top Ayreon.

[@Papa_Mendes]

Nobody is ready for Ayreon.

[@TheBlackSpiral]

Wow, I never heard this. Completely managed to miss it when it happened! It's not perfect, but I love it. Burnt Offerings is one of my favorite Iced Earth albums and I think this version sort of lacks the venom and anger that's almost palpable on the entire original's album. Stu is a great replacement for Barlow though. I saw them live again this week, and it rekindled my hunger for Iced Earth~

[@Vazcular]

You just heard this? When did you start listening to Iced Earth?

[@TheBlackSpiral]

Vazcular Somewhere in 2001! To be fair though, I’ve stopped keeping as much track of bands as I used to. But back in the day I would scour the digital plains for anything by anyone of my favorite bands XD

[@patrickcastelo144]

I miss the latin chorus in the middle

[@TheMetalhead98]

They are missing half of the Gregorian Chant. It's spoken in Latin

[@_Xstatic_]

Yeah that was my favorite part when they say open wide the gates and the chanting kicks in.

[@MetalFerg]

Plus side: that fucking sick riff gets put front and center

[@Vazcular]

Jon is is an idiot when it comes to re-recorded material. It only didn't sound worse with 'Days of Purgatory." Too bad Jon's version never included anything from 'Burnt Offerings.' And where was 'The When the Night Falls" intro? Jon, SMH.

[@shangri-la-la-la]

@@Vazcular An important note of context for some of the changes is that due to the original having a heavy amount of Keyboard and not normally having a keyboardist on tours they would almost never play this song live outside of things like Alive in Athens where they planned on having a Keyboardist. So removing most if not all keyboard from the song in this version is an attempt to make a version that they are more prepared to play on a standard tour. That in addition to intruding Stu as being able to fit in generally well with one of the fan favorites were the 2 general reasoning behind putting out this version.

[@TheBushwooky]

I like how it sounds a little cleaner than the original, but I miss some of the things they left out from the original.

[@XTheManWithoutNameX]

It's quite good, but I prefer the original version. The latin chanting in the middle was an inspired touch.

[@Joshmosis2.0]

You're absolutely right. The chanting was one of my favorite parts in the original.

[@cROSSingth3RUBICon]

I like this version much better except that it's missing this extra chant. It's the only thing missing. This one is just so much heavier. I love Stus voice on this

[@corosta]

+Darth Nihilus THANK YOU !

[@DarkFortressPictures_Official]

+Darth Nihilus I was so disappointed when they didn't put it in this version. However, both versions are equally great.

[@niclastname]

Yeah I really liked the chant part too! But apparently they removed it because it was just gibberish that Jon thought sounded cool. If you ask me they should have just rewritten the chant so it was actual words instead of removing it. It's my favorite part of the song!

[@frankthetank530]

Chilling song, especially towards the end and love the keyboard outro. Not Barlow good but solid. "Imagine a place, where every horror comes to life. Where every torture is real and time stands still. Eight fiery steps and we're closer to the end.."

[@Kruezoraxe]

It was done on the original one as well. It likely wasn't a mistake. It's just more aesthetically pleasing to sing "cerebus" than "cerberus". They're just employing poetic license.

[@vorgoth55]

I remember going to see Iced Earth the first tour when Stu joined. They just did this and were doing it for an exit song on the tour. Was amazing meeting the band and seeing this live.

[@jeffbudd7678]

Vorgoth When they did this in Toronto on the Dystopia tour Stu put in way more death metal vocals. Fucking EPIC doesnt describe the hellish inferno that the death vocals gave it.

[@SageNemesis]

i do prefer the original, but this did get me hyped for Stu joining the band. And I have yet to be disappointed! Stu kills and Incorruptible is his best with the band so far!

[@johnkatsoudas4767]

I agree with you. I have also yet to be disappointed, and Incorruptible is the best album Iced Earth has done with Stu Block so far. I love Dystopia and Plagues Of Babylon alot too, but Incorruptible is a phenomenal album.

[@lunarfact]

Purely awesome remake loved it

[@MartKencuda]

It's pretty good. I'm just so used to the original that anything different just sounds weird to me.

[@LakeFossilPress]

Holy fuck -- this is a good version!

[@omarvela7135]

Should have left it at Barlow

[@andilegradi1073]

Yes, the true voice of Iced Earth is Matt Barlow for me !!

[@bradduncan1797]

Stu is the best ICED EARTH has ever I had he is just osome!!!!!!!!!!

[@GeneralCalculus]

Misheard lyrics part 696: "Queen of vipers, queen of serpents" -> "Queen of vipers, queen of sorrows"

[@makita3680]

Stu's voice is amazing, and I say this as someone who grew up on Barlow. Great job, just hats off.

[@Hvorgandr]

entrance with brutal vocal was something awesome. brutal vocals should be added more to this track.

[@MetaITurtle]

I speaks for itself how they always try and re record songs they like. More bands should do this, so we can see how much they've improved.

[@ElectricNate1]

From "All the Sinners Cry" this song chills me to my bones......Because of this song im interested in reading The Inferno poems

[@telendar2949]

I read it just because of this song... And it's totally awesome and it greatly inspired the vision we have from hell now ^^

[@theinfinitypizza4431]

Go fucking read it, t's great

[@robertsiemon410]

Terrible. I hated the spoken cry. And Not the scream.

[@CatOnFire]

This is the song redone with their new vocalist, Stu Block. If you like it you might like the original which is on the album Burnt Offerings by Iced Earth sung by Matt Barlow.

[@Orvect]

*[Insert "the Devil is in the details" joke here.]*

[@jaimeborbaran]

Come on Matt, let's show this sissy how it's done

[@Teteus]

What a song! So much feeling and technique! A journey to the hell itself!

[@sambracedeny]

they both are great but i still prefer the classic version.

[@dinhodecarmo]

The better thing to know is, I saw this gig!!!

[@Sinachrist]

In some myths the beast Cerberus is in fact recounted as Cerebus or Cerberos. So if anything, he's saying it the way it was originally meant to be said.

[@clouds_demise]

I loked matt Barlow very much, but Stu Block got that balls in his voice I missed on Matt since "Something Wicked this way comes" And Stu is an amazing vocalist who can his feet into the prints Barlow left.

[@benjaminroy15]

like them both , the original is great...so is this version...period

[@nataSoN]

Wow damn i am a wrapper and i gotta say this is pure hellfire, great work! 🔥🔥🔥🔥Outta🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@fotisbaxevanis3493]

nothing beats the Alive In Athens version

[@Vazcular]

Great, but the Gregorian chants were/are an essential part of this song. Stu does an amazing job live I must say.

[@pantherex4284]

The riff lord at his best.

[@cy9nvs]

Jeff Hanneman?

[@pantherex4284]

+ver xy no Jon.

[@cy9nvs]

Connor Roth Nah sorry, the title's already been given out

[@pantherex4284]

Cus lesser known bands such as this get over looked.

[@cy9nvs]

Connor Roth you are telling me that iced earth's riffs are better than the slayers on show no mercy - seasons in the abyss? I love Iced Earth, but fuck no.

[@Grubkill3r91]

Epic. The original is still awesome though, but this one can hold it's own

[@antoniusmetal]

Production here is much better than in the original. However, and although Stu is a great singer, Matt's voice just makes it sublime.

[@dhyt1496]

The production sucks here. It's like it was mastered for $8 earbuds with no respect for decent sound systems. Are you even familiar with the original? The remaster with Barlow's vocals sucks, and that might be what you're comparing this to. The remaster has no dynamic range, much like this version. At that point with all the dynamic range gutted it's just your preference for vocalist or subtle tone changes but the original is in a whole other class above the remaster and this version IMO. It's not even a competition. The real release actually had good production quality. Remaster kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJjEh2qXibOphZY Original kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2LJf3xmp7qJf7s There's so much post processing in this version that I don't even know if Stu is any good. All I know is I hate the overall sound of this version, but while the bit at 14:45 here is intense it's also lacking compared to the original. Between the remaster and this version though I think this moment sounds better here vs the shitty remaster so by remaster standards maybe this sounds good but IMO the original wins by a mile every time. This just sounds like it's coming out of shit laptop speakers or something.

[@NIIVES]

This version kind of made me realize the pretty solid drumming, even though I don't like the sound of the bassdrum. It's too ''wet'' in my opinion. It's a great version none the less!

[@cy9nvs]

Not bad but I prever Matt's voice, makes it sound way more mystic and epic imo.

[@Severthis]

Stu makes everything sound like defiance you know what I mean? He just has that voice Matt really sounds like his throat is a sharpened knife great ass voice.

[@chopgr]

i was like, this version is differnt and the vocals too.. now it explains.. nice version, great song!

[@thefreakshowband]

if you like Iced Earth you will love our band

[@daddyclapper]

one shade was damned for all eternity

[@ariskoskinas]

Oh boy , Stu Block kickass

[@CatOnFire]

I never meant to imply that Cerebus was the first spelling of the word in any language, but from what I've studied it was one of the first translations of Kerberos to English and this has been slowly brought closer to the original spelling over time. I still prefer Cerberus, honestly.

[@Soulblade2607]

They remade this one so they could perform it live. Old version was unsuitable for that. Something to do with special effects. There is video somewhere on their official channel where Jon explains why.

[@spintop285]

Both versions of the song are really good, but like most comments, I like Matt's voice.

[@merritt2014]

Honestly the only thing I don't like here is the guitar tone. The original's tone is probably the greatest metal guitar tone I've ever heard.

[@Majestic12200]

Yeah, I get what you mean and I agree. I missed the choir chant in the middle (after the "down, thy cursed wolf" part) as well

[@YeOldeFrancke]

The download is the full one, didn't even know it was sold too.

[@Alexandros85]

No... Original version 95 FTW

[@MrZkoki]

Stu, you are great in your own way.

[@MrZkoki]

His voice is more fitting for this song, he sounds much more vengeful and malicious than Matt.

[@Tony11442]

​@@MrZkoki I think the opposite is true

[@ZORSHRINER]

Well done.

[@IsraelQuezada999]

My favourite Iced Earth song... Not bad, but I much prefer it with Matt Barlow...

[@NegiTaiMetal011]

I love Stu and this song's amazing, but I feel the original is better. It's not just Matt's powerful vocals, but the way the original sounds is just epic and heavy along with the Latin-like chants.

[@chrishagy1478]

Yeah. I think Stu is the right man to take over for Matt. But I still miss him.

[@Pimpmoble]

i wish there was a mixed version of Stu's version to Barlow's version that would be so epic. Stu's highs and Barlow's lows so cool

[@ollberding1027]

What are they saying in latin?

[@coffincrusher]

Ive been listening to Iced Earth for the last decade and somehow ive never heard this song... oh wait. Yeah I have this shits epic. Awesome. It just picked up. Oh man Im too stoned for such awesomeness

[@bradduncan1797]

STU BLOCK IS THE SHIT, but BARLOW is very very good and I don't take anything away from him still enjoy listening to him as much kind of a different style between the two. Shaffer kicks ass on this album.

[@megamanzeroxfan2010]

I think this wouldve been too long of a song to be in the game credits but itll could've been a perfect fit.

[@chopgr]

you are correct, its Cerberus, the guardian of the gate to the dead

[@Godzilla2000312]

I love Matt Barlow, to me he is the singer of Iced Earth and in my heart I hate that he left, but Stu can sing really fucking well and he did a way better version of this song in my opinion. I would love to see him do more of the old Iced Earth songs on studio tracks so people can remix studio tracks and use his and Matt's vocals on one track like they did with Owens and Matt. That would be really awesome.

[@funhaus_crew]

my favourite iced earth track

[@alexliapis318]

Prefer the original better. More dark and sinister... And has nothing to do with vocals. Randall Shawver does all the trick and always had. It's my opinion that since Randall left the band has lost it's sinister and evil sound...

[@randallshawver3]

Thank you Alex.I appreciate the compliment.Iced Earths music is still good but this version definitely misses the evil atmosphere of the original in many places.And the kick drum triggering was a bad choice.

[@KyleJPie10]

Randall, the original drum mix of burnt offerings was triggered to shit

[@SefniAsheforr]

Best lead player the band every had in my opinion. Have loved almost every album they have made, but the lead playing got less interesting as the years went on. After Something Wicked, the leads became very wanky and soulless. I hate to say anything bad about one of my top 3 favorite bands of all time, but it's so true.

[@TheBushwooky]

I think 5:30-7:36 are my favorite two minutes in all of metal

[@MurderMelon666]

where are the semi-latin chants?

[@petergazinya5539]

the best part of the song they left out (the exorcist ending)

[@bradduncan1797]

great song SHAFFER IS A METAL GOD !!!!!!!

[@eopoustarades]

very nice. Very addicted metal fan, i didn't listen a lot to iced earth but after finishing the army i decided to pay more attention to them. although i love Stu and dystopia/plagues of babylon are masterpieces, Barlow's version of this song is much much better. It describes perfectly dante's journey to hell in a darker and smoother way than this one.

[@shadowcrimson6232]

personally , I can't choose which one is better, I'm just glad there is 2 different versions of this awesome song and they are both equally great to me, each one has better things than the other tho

[@telendar2949]

***** wait... is this Stu singing here? Or Rippers? It sounds more like Stu to me... But i prefer Matt version ^^

[@shadowcrimson6232]

Telendar it's Stu

[@joelw9819]

Telendar its definitely Stu. there are 3 versions of the song 1 with the original singer, 1 with Barlow which is far better then this one. and one with Stu. I love Stu's voice and all but barlow was born to be the voice of iced earth. as for ripper owen he did a good job on the few albums he was on but he is never a long term vocalist he is a fill in at best. Stu's voice in my opinion fit in best with Into Eternity but dystopia was one of the best albums iced earth has come out with since the departure of Matt Barlow which saddens me but there is a new beast around with Barlow out front, if you enjoy barlows vocals give Ashes of Ares a try if you haven't already.

[@telendar2949]

Joel W Hey thank you for the advice i will check it out. But are you sure for the original singer? This track was released on Burnt Offerings which is the first album with Barlow (if i remember well) because Schaffer thought Adam didn't has the level to sing the new songs so he asked him to take lesson, the singer refused and left. So are you sure it was not a version with Rippers? Even if Matt's version is the best for me ^^

[@KobiGottesman]

4:35-4:52, best part!

[@bradduncan1797]

I really hope Stu stays with the band, he's got another in Canada, forget the name though.

[@ethanRbn]

lol what is with Iced Earth and remaking songs?

[@kabal5994]

Why oh why? Not trying to piss on this singer, but this emphasizes missing Matt even more :s

[@MrZeus141]

If I end up being damned to hell (and I propebly will) I want this song playing as I desend into the inferno lol

[@Phoenix12157]

All hail the Riff Lord: Jon Schaffer!

[@tek512]

As much as I like this remake, I have to say I probably prefer the original more. 'Cause I'm a old fart like that.

[@andrerone8208]

😂😂😂👍🏻

[@ryanmoore1438]

HOLY SHIT!

[@_racoon_7778]

Remastered?

[@whoshotya117]

I don't like the change ups they did with the double bass and snare at some parts but other than that, a great remix.

[@Fraevo10]

Stu Block sings this so MUCH BETTER on " Live in Ancient Kourion" than on this studio version.

[@hepatitis123]

Saw this live last night, it was amazing. Stu is definitely a suitable replacement for Matt. He's very Barlow-esque with his own uniqueness.

[@DiaboliWolf]

\m/ ABANDON ALL HOPE HE WHO ENTERS HERE \m/ Iced Earth has made a new and fuckin Epic version ov the original Dante's Inferno that when you listen with all your Soul you feel the rush and your nerves shooting straight out ov your body \m/ LUCIFER BETRAYER OV GOD \m/

[@chrispitts9433]

They also released it for free online as a download.

[@benjaminwhite3585]

Stu's vocals sound a bit.....dramatic I guess would be the term I'm looking for....for me. I really wish, since they weren't able to keep Matt Barlow, I wish they'd been able to get Tim Owens back. Since their "falling out," if you could call it that, happened back in late '07, maybe they could patch things up. As much a fan as I am of the Barlow era, Framing Armageddon is my over all favorite Iced Earth Album.

[@MrJimbo666]

Love this version a lot!! But Barlow's version is better!

[@jntdhome]

This is a pretty good effort and I like Stu as a suitable replacement. That said...Barlow OWNS this song. Listen to the original "Burnt Offerings" version. It's noticably darker and feels more like a trip through Hell. Better yet and listen to the "Alive In Athens" version. The hairs on the back of my neck stand every time I hear it. LOVE Iced Earth....LOVE Stu and Dystopia....but sorry...gotta go with "Camp Barlow" on this song. A+ for effort.....B- for the end result.

[@lordmorgoth7]

i dont like stu honestly but he did a good job. i even got to like this version. Dont ask much thouugh alive in athens was a legend of a concert and it will be hard for iced earth to be back to that epic feeling dont misunderstand me all bands have their climax. im going to other topic fjsdklajlk both version are very good. i jus consider that when barlow sings he captures the character feelings i mean he seems to be dante in this song or dracula in dracula even more than stu