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Than Metallica’s Black Album? Yes, there are many, many albums with superior second halves. And first halves.

After multiple listens my opinion is unchanged — this album is a hot mess of terrible vocal melodies and harmonies, embarrassing synth orchestration, weak songwriting, and very uneven instrumental work (with some admittedly high points). “Power” is by far the best song on offer here, and even...

After multiple listens my opinion is unchanged — this album is a hot mess.

Taking 6 guesses instead of 1 because he just feels like it. @TheMercenary, is that you…?!?!

Iron Maiden (4/10) Gangland (4/10) Sanctuary (5/10)

Can I Plumb With Sadness?

FTFY.

The vocal melodies and harmonies are awful, and the songwriting is mostly terrible too.

It’s so bad that listening to it might give you vesticular cancer!

What a turdfest! Terrible. Like all the worst excesses of The Key trilogy, but turned up to 11. “Power” is by far the best song on offer here, but the rest is tripe aside from a small handful of decent instrumental parts. What a disappointment.

EDIT: What a turdfest! Terrible. Like all the worst excesses of The Key trilogy, but turned up to 11. “Power” is by far the best song on offer here, but the rest is tripe aside from a small handful of decent instrumental parts. What a disappointment.

@Diesel 11 , been waiting with bated breath for your Rush reviews to continue…

Priceless!

It’s pretty much universally panned as his worst album by a mile, and Blaze has never burned up the charts in the first place. Everybody seemed to like their acoustic collaborations on Maiden songs, but when Zwijsen had to compose his own electric songs he utterly failed, and the result was a...