Dark Genesis is a five-disc

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by American heavy metal band

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, released on November 27, 2001. It contains remastered versions of their first three

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'', ''

Night of the Stormrider ''Night of the Stormrider'' is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Iced Earth, released in 1991 through Century Media Records. It is a concept album centered on an idea that was created by the band's leader Jon Schaffer. '' ...

'' and '' Burnt Offerings''), their rare

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'' Enter the Realm'', and a newly recorded tribute CD, ''

Tribute to the Gods ''Tribute to the Gods'' is a covers album by heavy metal band Iced Earth. It is notable as the last Iced Earth album featuring Larry Tarnowski on lead guitar, and the last featuring singer Matt Barlow on vocals until his 2007 return. It was al ...

'', which contains covers of many songs that have influenced Iced Earth. ''The Tribute to the Gods'' CD was the last Iced Earth release to feature lead guitarist Larry Tarnowski, and the last to feature

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until his 2007 return. As well, that same disc marked bassist

James MacDonough James MacDonough (born April 3, 1970) is an American bass guitarist. He has played with heavy metal bands Iced Earth, Nevermore, and Megadeth. Career MacDonough was part of Iced Earth's line up from 1996–2000 and again from 2001–2004. W ...

's first Iced Earth disc since 1999, as he had been absent during the recording of '' Horror Show''.

Misprinting Error

Once the Dark Genesis box set was released, reports started coming in of misprintings on the discs. Disc 1 (Enter the Realm) would play Disc 3 (Night of the Stormrider), Disc 2 (Iced Earth) would play Disc 4 (Burnt Offerings), Disc 3 would play Disc 1 and Disc 4 would play Disc 2. Disc 5 (Tribute to the Gods) remained true to its printing. This fault got back to Iced Earth, who quickly released a statement on their official website about how disappointed and embarrassed they were about the errors and gave everyone their humble apologies, despite not being their fault at all. It was announced that through investigations, 3000 of the 4000 shipped units were affected with this error. The statement also insisted fans to send back their error discs along with their names and addresses to

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’s head office and they’ll be replaced with new discs with the correct printings on them.

Track listing

Disc one

'' Enter the Realm'' remastered, 1989

Disc two

'' remastered, 1991

Disc three

'' remastered, 1992

Disc four

'' Burnt Offerings'' remastered, 1995

Disc five

'', 2002

Personnel

Jon Schaffer Jon Ryan Schaffer (born March 15, 1968) is an American heavy metal musician. He is the rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter of the Indiana-based heavy metal band Iced Earth, which he formed in 1985 under the name Purgatory. He is also the ...

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on all tracks,

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on "Stormrider" and "God of Thunder" * Gene Adam −

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on discs 1 and 2 *

− vocals on discs 4 and 5 * John Greely − vocals on disc 3 * Randall Shawver −

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on discs 1-4 * Larry Tarnowski − lead guitar on disc 5 * Dave Abell −

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on discs 1-4 *

− bass guitar on disc 5 * Greg Seymour −

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on disc 1 *

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− drums on disc 2 * Rick Secchiari − drums on Disc 3 * Rodney Beasley − drums on disc 4 *

Richard Christy Thomas Richard Christy Jr. (born April 1, 1974) is an American drummer and radio personality, best known for being the former drummer for several heavy metal bands since the early 1990s, most notably Death, and his tenure on ''The Howard Stern ...

− drums on disc 5

References

{{Authority control Iced Earth compilation albums 2001 compilation albums Albums with cover art by Travis Smith (artist)