No, Dance of Death is not the best album of Iron Maiden. Mind you, a bit expected. Like all the "old group" the best hours of Maiden are behind him. This album is nevertheless very good, very very good. Compared to its predecessor, it has a much denser sound thanks to Dolby 5.1 technology (sound very massive perfectly suited to marriage guitars with orchestrations); 3 guitars have finally taken their full potential, quiet passages are even more melodic, edgy and passages are even more powerful. Finally, the choruses are very worked, which was not the case on "Brave New World", it must be recognized. By cons, and therein lies the rub: "Brave New World" was a total innovation, which is not the case of the "Dance of Death". Their previous efforts marked a pronounced change in musical direction, and everyone had agreed to see an artistic success. Almost none of his titles was like what the group had proposed in the past. Or with "Dance of Death", is far from able to say the same. 5 songs do not bring much compared to previous albums. For some titles, it works well as a minimum of risk was taken ("Rainmaker" and "Dance of Death"), but for others, immobility is similar to the vulgar repetition, to be polite (" No More Lies ") ... This is unfortunate and that is why my rating of 4/5 This added to a folder that we just say that she is missed ... But "Dance of Death", if not the ultimate Maiden album, still offers some amazing songs ("Paschendale", "Age of Innocence", "Journeyman"), and other really superb ("Face in the Sand "," Montsegur "). Finally, even the means album tracks ("Gates of Tomorrow," "New Frontier") seem above the average of what the band wrote during the nineties. "Dance of Death" since the best Maiden Seventh Son?
