IRON MAIDEN — Piece Of Mind (review)

IRON MAIDEN — Piece Of Mind album cover Album · 1983 · NWoBHM Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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1983's Piece of Mind marks the first Iron Maiden album to feature the classic line-up of Bruce Dickinson, Steve Harris, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Nicko McBrain, following the departure of Clive Burr. Having changed one member with each prior album this period in Iron Maiden's history is one of the most stable, keeping the same line-up up to and including 1988's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. Despite this line-up producing two of my all time favourite Iron Maiden albums, Piece of Mind itself is actually one of my least favourite releases from this period.

Iron Maiden has only rarely produced a subpar album though and Piece of Mind is not one of them. It's still an enjoyable effort but compared to the prior album The Number of the Beast the songs on Piece of Mind just sound inconsistent to me. The Trooper is of course a classic heavy metal song and the album's epic To Tame a Land has always been one of my favourite songs the band has ever released (and one I think is underrated) but most songs just don't get me going in the same way, though I don't dislike any of them either. It's about on the same level as the debut for me.

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