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To me, this is the worst song on the X-Factor by far. What are they trying to achieve here? Funky NWOBHM without rhythm guitars? A truly unfitting closer for an otherwise awesome album. You may praise the bravery to experiment, but the experiment as such is a failure.

Indeed There are no twin leads in this song. You probably mean the lead melody that appears before and after the solo. It's single lead melody though. With twin leads I would probably rate this song an 8/10 instead of 7/10. Another minus is the overly simplistic rhythm guitar. Would it have...

I have Seen them live in the 90s. 1994 was short, but very well done. 1997 they played over 2 hours and were pretty good. I don't know what you are referring to.

Do you feel very foolish now? I don't know what the facts are here, but I know this: I never trust in anything Mick Wall ever writes unless at least 3 other sources confirm it.

A Real Live One. Closely followed by A Real Dead One. Don't see where all the unlove comes from. It's the rawest and most authentic Maiden live album. They even left several mistakes on it, clearly audible. No fucking overdubs. Many songs are played faster than on record. Bruce sounds a bit...

Exactly, they tried. Didnt work at all in my ears. For the very same reasons you also mention below. Perosnal taste is of course always legit and if you enjoy it, who am I to debate. But I also have to say: if those exact albums were recorded by a newcomer act instead of Metallica, nobody...

I personally don't give a fuck anyway. Maiden is the ONLY band of that size / level I still enjoy. I would prefer them to be smaller, because they reached that level where they attract too huge crowds for me, mostly consisting of people who are way out of Metal, but so what. Metallica have not...

Scorpions probably did the most, but not all of them are good. Pretty much most of them are very cheesy piles of... well... cheese. Metal ballads and Power Ballads are NOT the same, by the way. My fave picks: Cinderella - Nobody's Fool Scorpions - When the Smoke Is Going Down Accept - Amamos La...

Commercial success has a lot to do with management, but is not solely based on it. The best manager in the world can not make a band bigger than their musical / image appeal. So the fact that Metallica is bigger than Maiden can not be used to determine the quality of management. At least not in...

To be fair, this release was put out by the ex record company WITHOUT permission or approval from the band, and they publicly distanced themselves from it. But yes, the artwork as such is fucking awful! Believe it or not - I actually know that guy on the cover. Have talked to him many times...

You are of course correct. As I said, the list is not overly serious, it is mainly the Tool fanbase that can be very annoying. That being said, I DO think that Maynard comes across very arrogant at times....

Please don't take this list too serious, I know it is not really fair to compare Lars with hyper-assholes like Schaffer and Nödtveidt... Maybe "Pedo" is not EXACTLY matching Nugent, as it were not children, and it MAY have been consensual, but it is still lowlife / disgusting as hell.

I think the arrangement of this song is a bit random in the second half is a bit lazy. Other than that, this song is an epic power ballad, and a highlight in both their catalogue and on this album.

Maybe not the most annoying Maiden track, but the most boring. To this day, I wonder what they wanted to achieve with this one. It has some distant AC/DC vibe, but much less so than FHTE. All good Maiden songs have either groove, atmosphere, riffs, melancholia or anger. This has none of the...

Agreed, even though I think this return to glory was not due to the sheer quality of BNW. The reunion with Bruce came at a time where old heavy Metal simply was acceptable again. Of course there is no way to prove it, but had Bruce come back 2 years earlier, it might possibly have caused lesser...

I strongly disagree. Nu Metal was big way into the 2000s, several years after BNW. Nu Metal had its commercial peak around that time, 2001 to 2004..That was the time when Disturbed and Slipknot emerged. It killed itself at the end of the decade, like any hyped fashion trend. BNW was Maiden's...

Are you really implying BNW had he same impact for the 2000s as Painkiller did for the 90s? I really don't see any evidence for this. Yes, Bruce returning was a huge thing. But that was not so much tied to the album itself. Painkiller still regularly gets voted/polled as one of the greatest...

Production having no meaning for the quality of songs? With all respect, this is bollocks, at least as a general opinion (in some cases it may be somewhat correct), and EVERY professional musician will tell you otherwise. Sure, the best production can not turn a bad song into a good one, but a...

It really depends on what kind of music you want to play. If you go for classical heavy metal, Marshall is still a good choice. For more aggressive stuff, here are better choices, alhough Marshall CAN work even in Death Metal, but you defintely need an external distortion then. Amps is also a...

I used LTD F-series for a very long time, both on stage and in the studio. Mostly even the cheaper ones. They could easily keep up with guitars of the next higher price category. Two years ago I switched to Ibanez, but I still use LTD during rehearsals. I can recommend them, if you want a more...