Iron Maiden's Reviews

Live After Death

(Average Rating: 9.78 out of 10)

Maiden At Thier Best!!

(Rated this album with 10 out of 10)
Reviewed by Chris Burton from TONBRIDGE, KENT England

If you in any way like Iron Maiden and you don't own this then you should bow your head in shame!! It is that important to own this album! It was released after the first five albums - Iron Maiden, Killers, Number Of The Beast, Piece Of Mind and Powerslave. It kicks off with Aces High and it's just amazing from then on. Powerslave benefits from the live atmosphere, as do many of the others. Bruce's voice sounds amazing, much better than on the A Real Live Dead One

There are few tracks which fall behind the others - in my opinion Die With Your Boots On and Flight Of Icarus, both from the Piece Of Mind album, don't quite reach the standard of the others. There is no Where Eagles Dare, which is also off Piece Of Mind, or Prowler, and Wrathchild is the only song from the Killers album.

Still, all can be forgiven as it is impossible to fit so much cool stuff on one CD, or even a double for that matter. It is a shame that Maiden failed to keep up this standard. Sure, Somewhere In Time and 7th Son Of A 7th Son are as good as this, but No Prayer For The Dying and Fear Of The Dark only contained a small collection of tracks worthy enough to be branded as Iron Maiden classics. After Bruce left, 2 albums were done with Blaze Bayley, and both of them were crap. They kinda lost it after 7th Son (which is an amazing album) - and tried to bring back any Maiden glory left in them with Brave New World. Although, if I'm fair, they did kinda suceed there.

I suppose this has turned into a review of Iron Maiden generally (which I hope you find useful in finding out what cool stuff to buy) instead of Live After Death, so I'll get back to the point. If you're new to Iron Maiden then get this quickly. It may not contain any songs from the second half of Maiden's career, but most of that was not as good.

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