IRON MAIDEN — Killers (review)

IRON MAIDEN — Killers album cover Album · 1981 · NWoBHM Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
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With not even a full year having passed Iron Maiden followed up their self-titled debut with Killers in 1981. The release introduced guitarist Adrian Smith to the band and is the last studio album to feature singer Paul Di'Anno. He would be fired and replaced with the band's more iconic vocalist Bruce Dickinson after this.

I tend to enjoy Killers a bit more than the prior self-titled as a whole as I think this is quite the rocking Iron Maiden release with lots of great lead work. Individually though there aren't as many real iconic tracks here, the obvious being Wrathchild (which I think is taken best with the intro track The Ides of March). Another favourite of mine would be Murders in the Rue Morgue while the closing Drifter in my mind is one of Iron Maiden's most underrated songs. Overall Killers is simply a fun Iron Maiden record to rock to though the absence of a longer epic track, as has been featured on nearly every Iron Maiden album, including the debut's Phantom of the Opera, is felt.

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