Dark Genesis

Dark Genesis
Box set by Iced Earth
Released	November 27, 2001
Recorded	Jan 1988-Aug 2001
Genre	Thrash metal, heavy metal
Length	3:36:13
Label	Century Media
Producer	Iced Earth
Iced Earth chronology
Horror Show (2001) Dark Genesis (2001) Tribute to the Gods (2002)

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Dark Genesis is a five-disc box set by American heavy metal band Iced Earth, released on November 27, 2001. It contains remastered versions of their first three studio albums (Iced Earth, Night of the Stormrider and Burnt Offerings), their rare demo Enter the Realm, and a newly recorded tribute CD, Tribute to the Gods, 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 Matt Barlow until his 2007 return. As well, that same disc marked bassist James MacDonough's first Iced Earth disc since 1999, as he had been absent during the recording of Horror Show.

Track listing

Disc one

Enter the Realm remastered, 1989

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Enter the Realm"	(instrumental)	Jon Schaffer	0:54
2.	"Colors"	Schaffer	Randall Shawver, Shaffer	5:04
3.	"Nightmares"	Schaffer	Schaffer	3:32
4.	"Curse the Sky"	Schaffer	Shawver, Schaffer	4:44
5.	"Solitude"	(instrumental)	Shawver, Schaffer	1:44
6.	"Iced Earth"	Schaffer	Schaffer	5:32

Disc two

Iced Earth remastered, 1991

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Iced Earth"	Schaffer	Schaffer	5:23
2.	"Written on the Walls"	Gene Adam	Adam, Shawver, Schaffer, Dave Abell	6:07
3.	"Colors"	Schaffer	Shawver, Schaffer	4:51
4.	"Curse the Sky"	Schaffer	Shawver, Schaffer	4:44
5.	"Life and Death"	Schaffer	Shawver, Schaffer	6:08
6.	"Solitude"	(instrumental)	Shawver, Schaffer	1:44
7.	"The Funeral"	(instrumental)	Shawver, Schaffer	6:16
8.	"When the Night Falls"	Schaffer	Schaffer	9:01

Disc three

Night of the Stormrider remastered, 1992

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Angels Holocaust"	Schaffer	Schaffer	4:52
2.	"Stormrider"	Schaffer	Shawver, Schaffer	4:48
3.	"The Path I Choose"	Schaffer	Shawver, Schaffer	5:53
4.	"Before the Vision"	Schaffer	Shawver, Abell	1:36
5.	"Mystical End"	Schaffer	Schaffer	4:43
6.	"Desert Rain"	Schaffer	Schaffer, Abell	6:56
7.	"Pure Evil"	Schaffer	Shawver, Schaffer	6:33
8.	"Reaching the End"	Schaffer	Schaffer	1:11
9.	"Travel in Stygian"	Schaffer	Schaffer	9:31

Disc four

Burnt Offerings remastered, 1995

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Burnt Offerings"	Schaffer	Shawver, Schaffer	7:22
2.	"Last December"	Schaffer	Schaffer	3:23
3.	"Diary"	Matt Barlow	Shawver, Schaffer, Abell	6:14
4.	"Brainwashed"	Schaffer	Shawver, Schaffer	5:22
5.	"Burning Oasis"	Schaffer	Shawver, Schaffer, Abell	6:00
6.	"Creator Failure"	Schaffer	Shawver, Schaffer, Abell	6:02
7.	"The Pierced Spirit"	Schaffer	Shawver, Abell	1:54
8.	"Dante's Inferno"	Schaffer	Schaffer	16:26

Disc five

Tribute to the Gods, 2002

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original artist	Length
1.	"Creatures of the Night"	Paul Stanley, Adam Mitchell	Kiss	4:01
2.	"The Number of the Beast"	Steve Harris	Iron Maiden	4:33
3.	"Highway to Hell"	Bon Scott, Angus Young, Malcolm Young	AC/DC	3:23
4.	"Burnin' for You"	Donald Roeser, Richard Meltzer	Blue Öyster Cult	4:26
5.	"God of Thunder"	Stanley	Kiss	3:56
6.	"Screaming for Vengeance"	Rob Halford, K.K. Downing, Glenn Tipton	Judas Priest	4:37
7.	"Dead Babies"	Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith	Alice Cooper	5:40
8.	"Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll"	Roeser, Albert Bouchard, Sandy Pearlman	Blue Öyster Cult	3:59
9.	"It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)"	Scott, Young, Young	AC/DC	4:42
10.	"Black Sabbath"	Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward	Black Sabbath	5:30
11.	"Hallowed Be Thy Name"	Harris	Iron Maiden	7:08

Personnel

• Jon Schaffer − rhythm guitar on all tracks, lead vocals on "Stormrider" and "God of Thunder"
• Gene Adam − vocals on discs 1 and 2
• Matthew Barlow − vocals on discs 4 and 5
• John Greely − vocals on disc 3
• Randall Shawver − lead guitar on discs 1-4
• Larry Tarnowski − lead guitar on disc 5
• Dave Abell − bass guitar on discs 1-4
• James MacDonough − bass guitar on disc 5
• Greg Seymour − drums on disc 1
• Mike McGill − drums on disc 2
• Rick Secchiari − drums on Disc 3
• Rodney Beasley − drums on disc 4
• Richard Christy − drums on disc 5