IRON MAIDEN — No Prayer For The Dying (review)

IRON MAIDEN — No Prayer For The Dying album cover Album · 1990 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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1988's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son marked the end of Iron Maiden's classic era. Adrian Smith was out and Janick Gers was in. 1990's No Prayer for the Dying was the first of two albums this particular incarnation of the band released along with Fear of the Dark and well, neither of them is exactly their finest hour.

For me No Prayer for the Dying was their weakest effort up until that point, making it a massive drop in quality from Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, which is my favourite of the lot. This isn't a bad album by any means in fact I actually really like several songs including Holy Smoke which is quite the upbeat rocker, along with The Assassin and Mother Russia. I think the main problem is that this is a more straight-forward Iron Maiden than the progressively minded band that made the two previous albums, with some of the music being more like hard rock than heavy metal. The 90's weren't the best time for Iron Maiden in general, but there's still enough to like about No Prayer for the Dying to make it worthwhile. Truth is, for me, this is the best thing Iron Maiden released in the 90's.

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