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DIV'S DESULTORY ROCK REVIEWS

IRON MAIDEN

Don't go by the corniest of corny covers,this band is good.

Years

1976 -

From

England

Styles

NEW Wave OF British Heavy Metal ,ahoy! 

Members

  • Adrian Smith
    guitar
  • Bruce Dickinson
    vocals
  • Dave Murray
    guitar
  • Janick Gers
    guitar
  • Nicko McBrain
    drums
  • Steve Harris
    bass guitar

Former Members 

Paul Di'Anno
vocals

 

                                                 Iron Maiden    A

1 Prowler 3:55
2 Remember Tomorrow 5:27
3 Running Free 3:16
4 Phantom Of The Opera 7:20
5 Transylvania 4:05
6 Strange World 5:45
7 Charlotte The Harlot 4:12
8 Iron Maiden 3:35

 Clean Guitars !Freshness ! Great solos! Rockers! Power Ballads!
 
 
 
I suppose I could stop the review there and stop wasting my own time but then I want to give more attention to this excellent debut from the premier NWOBHM  band.
Most likely you will hear this album after hearing the albums from the Bruce Dickinson era  .The vocalist is Paul Di Anno .Man i like this guy!Check out  Prowler and his hehehe's  !Funky!There really is not a weak moment on this album.(By the way,check out  Opeth's cover (the black metal band)of Remember Tomorrow an excellent power ballad(the quiet to loud ones)).The solos are great with what I feel a classical touch which shows clearly on the epic  Phantom Of The Opera.
There are a helluva lot of innovations throughout the album.So you can headbang your way through  Running Free(which has a great start) and the title track(carrying on the Black Sabbath tradition).
Highly recommended.Get it now.
The cover is a great laugh of course.If I ever get  sizeable audience(a very remote proposition) the first survey I'll carry out will be"Which Iron Maiden Album cover made you laugh the hardest?"
  
 
                                                            

                                                    Killers   B

1 The Ides of March 1:46
2 Wrathchild 2:54
3 Murders in the Rue Morgue 4:18
4 Another Life 3:23
5 Genghis Khan 3:07
6 Innocent Exile 3:52
7 Killers 5:01
8 Prodigal Son 6:11
9 Purgatory 3:20
10 Drifter

 The past week I've heard so much of Iron Maiden that this album sounds inferior to The Number Of The Beast and the debut...otherwise my guess if you listen to this album while not hearing the others as well this will sound very good.....

The A side is all to the good with the Beasts showing off their punk influences (Murders In The Rue Morgue) and they are as fast ,tight as ever...the guitar playing is tighter than ever.....Pauli tries to build up more of the heavy image with some long drawn out  "oooooooooooooooooooos" though he never did them better than Dickinson.........

The album gets stale on the Bside.......last three songs sound pretty much interchangeable and unnecessary to me.

There you go .......they are to conscious of themselves right now and well.... not heavy enough....Buy this anyways.

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