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Iron Maiden
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.9695
Iron Maiden Album Rankings
1
For the longest time, I consideredLive After Death, Iron Maiden's 1985 concert snapshot, to betheultimate live album ever recorded.
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2
Chances are, this review is going to irritate a few of the publicists I work with who either presently handle or who have handled Iron Maiden in the last three years.
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3
The previous Maiden singer was all fine and dandy, but Bruce added a whole other layer of grit to the vocals, a singer with a great Rock n Roll voice, no question.
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4
Somewhere In Timemarked a series of changes for Iron Maiden.
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5
By 1983'sPiece of Mind, Iron Maiden were fast becoming one of the biggest metal bands on the planet, yet with each successive album, the group lost an original member.
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6
When Bruce Dickinson left the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden in 1993, many wondered if there would be life after the vocalist who made the band superstars.
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7
Iron Maiden's sophomore effort, 1981'sKillers, proved to be a more focused and developed affair than its predecessor.
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8
In 1988, harsh thrash metal and radio-friendly glam rock were the two chief heavy metal styles.
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9
Although Iron Maiden is known primarily in the U.S.
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10
Iron Maiden's 1980 self-titled album is certainly one of heavy metal's all-time best debuts. Surfacing from the underground along with a host of other New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands (e.g.
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11
Another year, another line-up change for Iron Maiden. That's what people had to be thinking by the time their third effort,The Number Of The Beast, came out in 1982.
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12
Iron Maiden will always be fighting an uphill battle, no matter what else they do with their musical career.
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13
For me, I don't think there was a release I was looking forward to more last year than Maiden's newest album. Even with the horrendous cover, I was determined to be one of the first to own it.
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14
After a stable period in Iron Maiden's lineup, the boat was shaken yet again when guitarist Adrian Smith departed after eight years.
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15
I remember receivingA Real Live Onein the mail from my contact at Capitol Records back when I was the features editor of the college newspaper.
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16
What do you get for the Iron Maiden fanatic who has everything? I mean, really -- the band's albums have been repackaged numerous times over the last few years (including packaging them in their masco
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17
By the timeFear Of The Dark, the ninth studio release from Iron Maiden came out, the band sounded tired.
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18
In 1999, fans of the British heavy metal group Iron Maiden got what they had been clamoring for: out was vocalist Blaze Bayley (who, in all fairness, didn't get the credit on record that he deserved..
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19
Not that long ago, when I reviewed Iron Maiden'sThe X Factor, I mentioned that I had declared about two years previous that it was time for the pillar of British heavy metal to retire, but was glad th
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24
To date the only disc with Blaze Bayley (save some tracks on Best Of The Beast ), this disc shows the band kicking ass but forgetting to write the arena-motivating hooks which were their stock in tra
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28
Though Live After Death remains the strongest documentation of Iron Maiden on-stage, A Real Live One isn't a bad listen at all.
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32
For the passionately devoted Iron Maiden fan -- and there are a lot out there -- Eddie's Head is a treasure of sorts.
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42
As the title says, Live at Donington was recorded live at England's annual heavy metal festival, Castle Donington, on August 22, 1993.
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46
When the time came to conclude the Bruce Dickinson era with their second official live album, heavy metal legend Iron Maiden was faced with the common dilemma of how to adequately balance both old an
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50
Over the course of two CDs, The Best of the Beast hits all of Iron Maiden's biggest hits, from "Run to the Hills" and "Wasted Years" to "Two Minutes to Midnight," "Aces High" and a live version of "R
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60
Ed Hunter is a rather unique, fan-friendly three-CD set from British heavy metal heavyweights Iron Maiden. Two discs feature the band's best songs as chosen by fans on the official web site.
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