ICED EARTH: 'Framing Armageddon' Lands At No. 78 On BILLBOARD Chart
September 19, 2007ICED EARTH's new album, "Framing Armageddon - Something Wicked Part I", sold 7,800 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 78 on The Billboard 200 chart. It is the follow-up to 2004's "The Glorious Burden", which has shifted 70,000 copies to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
A full-length version of the new ICED EARTH song "The Setian Massacre" has been posted on the group's MySpace page.
Audio samples of all the tracks that appear on "Framing Armageddon - Something Wicked Part I" have been posted at www.spv.de.
"Framing Armageddon - Something Wicked Part 1" (cover artwork) expands the "Something Wicked" storyline first introduced in the trilogy of the same name appearing on the 1998 release, "Something Wicked This way Comes". "Framing Armageddon" will be followed in February/March 2008 by the band's ninth full-length studio release, tentatively titled "Revelation Abomination - Something Wicked Part 2" , continuing where "Framing Armageddon" leaves off.
Video footage of ICED EARTH performing the song "A Charge to Keep" at this year's Wacken Open Air festival, which took place August 2-4 in Wacken, Germany, has been posted on YouTube.
ICED EARTH will embark on a European headlining tour in October/November. A list of dates can be found at this location.
ICED EARTH will support HEAVEN AND HELL on a U.K. tour beginning on November 4 in Newcastle.
ICED EARTH's "Ten Thousand Strong" video (taken from "Framing Armageddon - Something Wicked Part I"):
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