IRON MAIDEN — Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (review)

IRON MAIDEN — Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son album cover Album · 1988 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
666sharon666
Having started to experiment and get progressive with the prior Somewhere in Time Iron Maiden took that idea even further with their seventh outing, the appropriately timed Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. This one was the last Iron Maiden release to feature guitarist Adrian Smith until 2000's Brave New World and so marks the end of what is widely considered the classic Iron Maiden period.

In my mind Seventh Son of a Seventh Son was the last really great album Iron Maiden made until they got Adrian Smith (and Bruce Dickinson, who left after Fear of the Dark) back in the band. But if such a high period of creativity has to end, at least Iron Maiden ended this one in the best possible way. Like the earlier Powerslave Seventh Son of a Seventh Son has the band at their most flawless and as much as I love Powerslave this one flows even better. You know something is good when the 44:06 running time seems to go by in the blink of an eye. Singles like Can I Play With Madness and The Evil That Men Do are rightly fan favourites but I love every song from this one equally. For that reason Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is, in my opinion, the best album Iron Maiden has ever released.

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