Iced Earth - God Of Thunder Tabs

Iced Earth – God Of Thunder (Words & Music by Kiss)
                     From the Album 'Tribute To The Gods'
              Copyright 2002, Century Media
                     Version 1.0 – November 2002


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.  - palm mute                  ph    - pinched harmonic
/  - slide up to                ah    - artificial harmonic
\  - slide down to              th    - tap harmonic 
~  - vibrato                    hr    - natural harmonic
h  - hammer on                  b     - bend 
p  - pull off                      Suffixes for bend    
t  - tap with finger                    f - full bend    h - half bend
"  - tremolo picking                    r - release      t - tap bend
X  - percussion mute                    p - pick when bent 
  - accented note                 Prefixes
() - ghost note, sustained note         p - pre-bend     w - use bar
*  - see comment                        d - don't pick start of bend 

Tune Gtr to Eb
(I tabbed song in D, but Eb is the standard Iced Earth-tuning)


Sorry, no solo's!

Riff A, both guitars
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------7hb--------------7---5-7-7h8p7—5h7----------|
|----9---7/9-----9---7-9-5hb------9---7/9-5-7------------------------| 
|----7---5/7-----7---5-7----------7---5/7----------------------------|
|-00---0------00---0-----------00---0--------------------------------|
  ..   .      ..   .

Riff B, both guitars
|---------------|-first---------|-second-----------------------------|
|---------------|---------------|------------------------------------|
|---------------|---------------|------------------------------------|
|----------7--7-|-5-7-7h8p7-5h7-|------------------------------------| 
|-2---7/9--5--5-|---------------|-7777-5h7---------------------------|
|-0-0-5/7-------|---------------|------------------------------------|
    .                             .... . .

Riff C, both guitars
|------------------|-first-------------|-second----------------------|
|------------------|-------------------|-----------------------------|
|------------------|-------------------|-----------------------------|
|-5-5-------7-7--9-|-5-5--9-9--22222-4-|-5-4-5-4--5-9-7--------------| 
|-3-3--5-5--5-5--7-|-3-3--7-7--00000-2-|-3-2-3-2--3-7-5--------------|
|------3-3---------|-------------------|-----------------------------|
                               .....

Riff D
This is the riff A with lots of bending to get that high pitched sound.

Riff E
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------| 
|-2--2---------------------------------------------------------------|
|-0--0---------------------------------------------------------------|
  .  .