Maiden studio album shoot-out, Part 11

Powerslave vs. SSOASS

  • Powerslave

    Votes: 16 36.4%

  • Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

    Votes: 28 63.6%
  • Total voters
    44
  • Poll closed .
Dick Brucinson

Dick Brucinson

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Question of the day: The better album is...:

Powerslave or Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son? :D

That's a tough one I suppose.

The well-known rules: 24 hours time to vote, poll results again can't be viewed before having voted, once casted vote cannot be changed, poll will be closed after 24 hours for then the next comparison will start.
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still in: The Book Of Souls, Fear Of The Dark, Brave New World, Seventh Son Of Seventh Son, Powerslave, The Final Frontier, Piece Of Mind, A Matter Of Life And Death
already knocked out: Iron Maiden

RESULTS FROM ROUND #1:
A Matter Of Life And Death 77% (Killers 23%)
The Book Of Souls 74% (Dance Of Death 26%)
Fear Of The Dark 69% (Virtual XI 31%)
Brave New World 61% (The Number Of The Beast 39%)
The Final Frontier 55% (The X Factor 45%)
Piece Of Mind 53% (Senjutsu 47%)
Iron Maiden 57% (No Prayer For The Dying 43%)
Powerslave 58% (Somewhere In Time 42%)
Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 76% (Senjutsu 24%)
 
My two favourite albums against each other .. ouch!

Powerslave contains my favourite Maiden song (Rime) but I think Seventh Son as a full listening experience (from first song to last) is slightly more fantastic.
 
Seventh Son by a mile in my book :)
I love every minute of it. Powerslave has a ton of energy, but only 2-3 songs I listen to regularly. I wouldn't miss the others.
 
Powerslave is better, imo. Great sound, great songs, great overall feel. Monster cover art.
These two should compete much later. Either of these two + Piece of Mind is better than remaining competitors.
Let's say Powerslave loses... Fear of the Dark, The Final Frontier is still in the game. That's some serious bullshit :facepalm:
 
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Azas said:
These two should compete much later.
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Like we spent an entire year in the GMAC just to get to this same battle and it was nearly a tie. Whichever album wins this match will just steamroll all the rest lol.
 
I went with Powerslave, in a off-the-cuff sort of way. I listened to SSOASS the other day, and it's an excellent album, brought down a bit by The Prophecy, while Powersalve takes a bit of dive in the middle (still great songs throughout). The average song quality is slightly higher on SSOASS than Powerslave, but the best half of Powerslave outshines the best half of SSOASS, so that settled it for me.
 
On a slightly related note, saw a post on FB yesterday where some dude asked people to choose between Powerslave and Defenders of the Faith.

Hadn't it been for the fact that Powerslave is tied for my favourite album by any band, I'd have trolled the discussion by asking "what about Ride the Lightning?" as that came out the same year.

Also, I didn't want to get engaged in a flame war on a FB page randomly appearing in my feed (based on some algorithm I guess). :D
 
Both are excellent albums, the very best that Maiden have to offer — but Seventh Son is a little bit better overall.
 
I mean come on guys, my two fav Maiden albums head to head so soon. Very tough one but just Ssoass for me. Just slighy more consistant and prob my second fav Maiden song of all in the title track.
 
In my (frequently changing) ranking of Maiden's albums, Seventh Son and Powerslave are number two and four respectively, separated only by AMOLAD. Seventh Son has the energy of Powerslave with more consistently strong songwriting across the album and some more variation, not that Powerslave ever feels dull or repetitive. It's also much stronger in the guitar solo department, with Adrian still on a high from Somewhere in Time and Dave playing at his absolute best.
 
Love the heaviness of both of these a lot, but chose 7th son. I wish Maiden had more "heavier" records along the lines of Powerslave, 7th Son, Accident Of Birth, and The Chemical Wedding.
 
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