IRON MAIDEN ALBUM REFERENDUM 2020: Results -> Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son wins!
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Lampwick 43
Barstool Warrior
Both would be very worthy winners. 7th Son is getting the vote here though because Powerslave is the best Maiden album.
PhantomOfTheOpera
Ancient Mariner
Not a joke, I tried to describe how top 5 favorite albums from Iron Maiden go around.
Well the top 3 is almost always the same, but once in while something happens and so.
PhantomOfTheOpera
Ancient Mariner
This might get tough final..happy to see and following how it eventually goes
MindRuler
Ancient Mariner
The position of the moon inclusion was pretty funny though.
Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
Powerslave is the best Maiden record. Like I said before, it’s just a chunk of high octane metal, which would be okay in its own right, but their vision and scope on it was unparalleled. It kicks off with a full-throttle dogfight, then is thrown into the midst of a hellish battlefield. Then an instrumental to sweeten things up before they hit us with some sword fighting — where the guitars become the swords — and then a follow-up to The Prisoner which is far and away better than the original. And to finish things off, a story about a dying Pharaoh and a retelling of one of the greatest English poems, two of the most epic songs ever made. The reason the album works, even when the four songs that bookmark the album are monsters and the other four in between don’t often get to be a part of the spotlight, is that the energy never lets up. Maiden have never been more on fire. And personally I’d rank 2 Minutes as one of the least great songs on the record (but they’re all 10/10, for sure).
Seventh Son by comparison isn’t quite so consistent. This was a good attempt to get Bruce back into the writing, but it didn’t 100% work out. They seemed to enter the studio wanting to make a concept album, and then changed course and tried to make a tight metal record instead. It’s almost as if right after the title track they were like, “Wait, we gotta make this a story again”— and throw in The Prophecy, boom. The album really dip’s after that title track and I don’t think it 100% picks itself back up. The music isn’t quite as good as soundscape as the albums that preceded it; Bruce is better here than on SiT, but not better than his performance on Powerslave. As a whole the record leaves me a bit disappointed for what could have been. Perhaps it was a push too far, given what was to follow with NPFTD. But regardless, I’m voting for it. Powerslave FTW.
Seventh Son by comparison isn’t quite so consistent. This was a good attempt to get Bruce back into the writing, but it didn’t 100% work out. They seemed to enter the studio wanting to make a concept album, and then changed course and tried to make a tight metal record instead. It’s almost as if right after the title track they were like, “Wait, we gotta make this a story again”— and throw in The Prophecy, boom. The album really dip’s after that title track and I don’t think it 100% picks itself back up. The music isn’t quite as good as soundscape as the albums that preceded it; Bruce is better here than on SiT, but not better than his performance on Powerslave. As a whole the record leaves me a bit disappointed for what could have been. Perhaps it was a push too far, given what was to follow with NPFTD. But regardless, I’m voting for it. Powerslave FTW.
Bruce co-wrote 4/8 songs. 3 of those songs are straight up classics.
Yax
Ancient Mariner
What haters? I haven't seen any.
Shmoolikipod
Stranger to the Light
This thread in summary:
I don't see that album in the list. It's almost as if it was voted out by a plurality.
Lampwick 43
Barstool Warrior
Something something Invisible Hand and all that.
JudasMyGuide
Ancient Mariner
Yeah, that one has been working out great so far.
PhantomOfTheOpera
Ancient Mariner
15-13 at the moment.
I'm slightly shocked this is as close as it is
PhantomOfTheOpera
Ancient Mariner
I was expecting more of a landslide win for SSOASS but it's very close indeed.
And also the albums are really close to both being my favorites, very close almost equal.
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Poto
Ancient Mariner
I'm not. We are talking about two of the greatest metal albums of all time. I would probably choose two or three Maiden albums over both, but I still think both are worthy winners.
Saapanael
Ancient Mariner
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