That might be something gripped very high, but there is no music, the music is at the same level as this move. The sound does not have much to do with the days of classics such as "The Number of the Beast" or "Piece of Mind". If there ever ever an album of Maiden announced that you can compare with this, then it was "Seventh Son ..." or "Somewhere in Time", both of which were also very progressive.
After Bruce Dickinson returned and Iron Maiden with "Brave New World" finally kreiirten an album made to measure, the disillusionment after relatively weak "Dance of Death" was quite large. While it was not a bad album, but they wanted to somehow just too much at once! Not so with this masterpiece!
The songs extend without exception to 6-10min why the album the first time by listening probably conceded at least the full effect. If you listen to the album but then a second time, it just will not let go of one. It slowly starts to remember the brilliant passages of songs and can assign them and always detects new details in the songs.
"These Colours Do not Run" reminded me a bit in the middle part to the excellent "Heaven Can Wait". The first match of the album is perfect.
"Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" is a very catchy song with absolute ear candy character, but in no event tinged commercially, which alone already resulting from the epic length of 9min. In my opinion one of the best songs the band ever!
"The Pilgrim" is also a very good, eingängier song.
"The Longest Day" is again a real blockbuster. The atmosphere, which is conveyed to the song just very special. Instrumental wrong with the song simply everything and Bruce Dickinson is the whole with his supernatural singing something extra. Rarely Dickinson has with his singing so so convinced as in this song!
"Out of the Shadows" is an ingenious power ballad, from which one can not get enough also.
The first single, "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg" is also a masterpiece. The song convinces with its groovy rhythm, the strong guitar work in the middle part and again Dickinson's divine vocals.
"For the Greater Goods of God" is in my opinion the strongest song on the album. It is true virtually everything. The song begins beautifully pleasantly quiet, climaxing on the class verses on the first chorus to the class instrumental part and the second chorus until it comes back in the end to a quiet outro, so this great song is abgeschlosse.
"Lord of Light" is the most progressive song on the album, which also starts quietly, but then evolved into a energetic riff and confident with a brilliant chorus. The song takes its start-up period until it has fully accepted him, but then you're just incredible hostage by it.
The final "The Legacy" is the perfect end to this album.
Let's just say that you got in this form since the 80s never heard Iron Maiden. The album does not have a single weak song, only the opener "Different World" not convinced as completely as the other 9 songs on the album. After the second listening you just can not get rid of the album.
Slayer before put, Maiden and Motörhead followed suit. With the ancient metal gods 80 is after all to be expected yet!
