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When Bayley Alexander Cooke was announced as Iron Maiden's new singer, replacing Bruce Dickinson who had left the band to pursue a solo career, everyone knew he had big shoes to fill. With Bruce, Maiden had enjoyed an enormous amount of success, and the stage presence and vocal range of their...

The X Factor is a lot longer than all of the Maiden albums that came before it, almost filling up an entire CD at 71 minutes. There were three B-Sides that never made it onto the album (Justice of the Peace, Judgement Day, I Live My Way), as well as the Virus single that came out shortly after...