Matt Barlow

is John.

This is the Matt situation.

This is Marcus on.

We are down a couple of lads today, but it's been so long, we did not want to wait any longer.

glorious.

On top of all that, we all have stuff going on.

Matt and Will have kids, so school is starting up again.

Life happens,

Hmm.

Um, either way, uh, if you've never heard A, a Night of the Stormrider, it's before Matt Barlow got, uh, joined Iced Earth.

So it's before they went...

I never considered them a power metal band.

Uh, lots of people always called them a power metal band once Matt Barlow joined, not, not Burnt Offerings.

But starting with The Dark Saga on on, they kinda got that moniker for a while, and that's fine.

Their first two albums are definitely borderline thrash metal.

It's a dark album.

And I was like sitting at that, when I was at that show, I'm like, you know what? In the span of two weeks, I've seen two ex-Iced Earth singers.

I saw Ash of the Berries with Matt Barlow, and then I saw Ripper with KK's Priest.

That was weird, right?

Mm-hmm.

I really wish...

Well, now, he replaced Matthew Barlow in Ice to Earth, who was irreplaceable.

But, you know...

Barlow has his own band now, and Ripper

I

still got to say their whole set, Matt Barlow's vocals, even when he talked, were still a little hot and over-modulated.

Just a little bit.

I could still hear it almost the whole set.