BEST IRON MAIDEN STUDIO ALBUM

dear God. so far I feel like this new Maiden album is finally the album I've been wanting them to make since Bruce rejoined the band. I've been iffy on most of the post-Bruce reunion material other than BNW and Final Frontier (and don't consider either to be A-work). the epics aren't wearing out their welcome either!

I would have settled for good, but this shit's hitting me in all the right places. nervous tho as I still have yet to the closer which I've been told is ridiculous.

there's riffs all over this thing too, which post-2000 Maiden has often been light on.

I'm only up to the title track and I want to cry this thing is so fucking face melting

goddamn

just bloody blistering so far, i love it

tempo changes! hooks! solos! yaaaaaaaah

do we need a new thread for this album? is there a new thread?

mebbe. finally getting my second listen in - "If Eternity Should FAil" is such a great opener.

why not start a new thread? It might help other ilxors check it out and get it into ilx eoy polls

THINK OF THE POLLS

:)

Piece of Mind (1983) 3

madness

been re-spinning Number lately and while I've always loved it I always considered it overrated. but starting to believe that was due to overexposure to "Number of the Beast" and "Run to the Hills", etc, cos listening to it fresh after years of not hearing it, and I've enjoyed it a lot more.

btw they played "Children of the Damned" when I saw them the other night. I'm still shaking from that.....

Piece of Mind got so fucking jobbed in this thing.

Live After Death is so far and away the best thing they did, but I think I would have gone Killers or Seventh Son.

Really surprised POWERSLAVE is ranked so highly here. I mean, it's a fine record, but....

it's one of my favs, but it was also the first I heard

Powerslave always sounds thin and laboured to me - especially next to the beefy wallop of Live After Death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECbJdeh1VvA

lmao i love the results to this poll, i was just listening to the s/t and thinking about how awesome it is, kinda posed between their own embryonic style and extreme thin lizzy worship, it smokes. clive burr is a monster

First 5 albums are unimpeachable, would still vote Powerslave

Powerslave is awesome

love "Flash of the Blade"

Bruce Dickinson up there w/Andy McCluskey in terms of possessing a voice that remains undimmed by time

They should tour together.

we just saw them last week & they are still awesome. I never cease to be amazed by Bruce’s energy...well, all of them really. I still can’t stand Janick and his stupid “heavy metal jazzercise” antics but it’s nice they gave him a home I guess.