IRON MAIDEN — A Matter Of Life And Death (review)

IRON MAIDEN — A Matter Of Life And Death album cover Album · 2006 · Heavy Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
666sharon666
With their last two albums Brave New World and Dance of Death Iron Maiden were on a much needed new high after the disappointing and patchy nineties efforts. Despite the massive hype I remember for this one at the time though I actually think it represents a small step down for the band, but we're still dealing with massively superior work to anything released in the nineties.

The average track running time is quite long on this one with only single Different World under the five minute mark. Most songs tend to be approaching or over seven minutes making A Matter of Life and Death a much less direct Iron Maiden album even when put up next to the previous two albums which also had many long songs. It works very well when taken in one listen but individually there just aren't so many standout tracks that make me get addicted to them the way a lot of their eighties work does. My favourites are easily These Colours Don't Run and The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg. To say it isn't a very creative album, especially for a band who've been going so long, would be wrong though.

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