(Rated this album with 2 out of 10) Reviewed by
Dustin Tyler Morris
from Higley, AZ
Brave New World: the upsetting first release of 21st century Maiden which follows the same pattern, track after track, and simply does not rip. As the title of this review implies, the idea was, after having played the chorus a lot, and taking the music slightly elsewhere, to come off strong with another one of those choruses and drag it to the end of the song, which is the case with 99.9% of the record, and this makes the album suffer from too much repetition, and the songs are too dependent simply on the choruses. Most songs on this release are extremely "let's sit around in this studio for and hour or two and see what we come up with" sort of songs. The songs worth noting are "the Wicker Man," and "Brave New World." I'll take this over Styx's "Brave New World," but come on... this was way too contrived!
