Iced Earth – Bang Your Head

Description

Bang Your Head” is a live double CD album by the American heavy metal band Iced Earth, released on April 28, 2023. The album captures their performance at the Bang Your Head Festival on July 16, 2016, in Balingen, Germany. At the time, the band was in the midst of composing and preproduction for their album “Incorruptible” (2017). Despite these commitments, they accepted the festival invitation, delivering a setlist that heavily features tracks from “The Dark Saga” (1996) and includes three songs from “Plagues of Babylon” (2014), marking the first live recordings of these tracks. The lineup for this performance included founder and guitarist Jon Schaffer, guitarist Troy Seele (in one of his final performances with the band), drummer Brent Smedley, bassist Luke Appleton, and vocalist Stu Block.