5/5 Awesome!!
  by Martin Palmer (UAE)
Iced Earth are just an amazing band!! If you have not purchased their DVD's I do recomend you do.

5/5 gettyburg
  by Andrew H. Christman (IN USA)
Dvd was in great shape. prompt service. It arrived when I was told it would. great job. thanks

4/5 buy it
  by Robert A. Scott V (Corinth, MS USA)
It has the option of displaying the lyrics or not during the songs, which i like. Has orchestral and metal mix. I especially enjoyed the tour of Gettysburg on this dvd, during which Schaffer occasionally points out the meaning of the relevant lyrics. The guy that guides the tour is really great, too.

The only negative is the singing seems too quiet. But I haven't played it through surround sound, yet. Just regular old TV stereo.



5/5 The BEST tribute to the bloodiest and most tragic battle ever.
  by Parker Buessow (Sequim, Washington USA)
I've been a huge fan of Iced Earth ever since I recieve a copy of their "Days of Purgatory" cd for a christmas present a couple of years ago. I love to study history, espiecially the civil war, so naturally the "Glorius Burden" became my favorite album of all time, and the dvd only makes it better. Jon has a certain passion for history unlike anything I've ever seen nor heard before, and it shows in this music video for their thirty-two minute long epic: "Gettysburg: 1863". The pictures match the topic of each of the lyrics in the three songs, and is extremely accurate and to the point. Like a previous reviewer stated, the pictures do tend to get a little repetive, but thats the only problem in an otherwise flawless masterpiece. Also on the first disc, you'll find a tour of the Battlefield of Gettysburg with Jon and a licsenced battlefield guide, plus an interview with Jon about his history store: "Spirit of '76" On the second disc you'll find music videos for "The Reckoning" and the accoustic version of "When The Eagle Cries", plus an interview with the man himself, Jon Schaffer. All in all, this is an outstanding release and keep any hardcore fan tied over until I.E.'s next release.


5/5 Metal on a mission
  by Steel Hand (Knoxville, TN United States)
Anyone who has heard Gettysburg knows that the music is excellent, and the lyrics are powerful. The video is incredible. With a combination of still and live shots, including both re-enactors and actual photographs from the Civil War, the powerful, terrible story of Gettysburg is told in all its grandeur and tragedy.

To make a modern reference for those who don't understand, more men died in three days on that blood-soaked battlefield than the US has lost in four years of war since 9-11. The Battle of Gettysburg was awful, and tragic and grand, and, ultimately, necessary for the preservation of our nation. For most metal bands, it would have been an act of foolish hubris to try to make this video about such a momentous event.

Iced Earth stepped up to the plate and knocked it out of the park.