Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
Atrocious album. Literally only gets a pass from metalheads because it has the Iron Maiden logo on the cover.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Sure, it’s nothing too impressive - maybe even in their bottom 5. But acting like this is in any way a poor quality album is completely disingenuous. Tbh out of any touring band of their generation, maiden have probably earned the right to rest on their laurels and ride things out til retirement the most.
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
"acting like this is in any way a poor quality album is completely disingenuous"
Dude, I'm serious. I truly believe that this album is objectively bad in quite a few ways. The songwriting is completely trite and devoid of any variety, the production is god awful, there is a glaring lack of riffs, an abundance of uselessly meandering intros, and the performances sound disjointed and amateur. Bruce sounding old I can understand, but go back and focus on the instrumental side of things. They sound sloppy as fuck, especially Nico, who constantly fucks up and can't maintain a steady rhythm to save his life.
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Album Rating: 3.3
"Bruce sounding old I can understand, but go back and focus on the instrumental side of things. They sound sloppy as fuck, especially Nico, who constantly fucks up and can't maintain a steady rhythm to save his life."
Funny enough, my issue with this album is the other way around. I'm completely fine with the instrumental side, but I'm really tired of Bruce singing three or four verses in a row with no variation whatsoever, particularly on those longer tracks. If anything, I wish the instrumental parts were given more time to breathe on these later Iron Maiden albums, because the verses tend to be so overbearing
It's the same problem I have with A7X's City of Evil (as much as I like that album). M. Shadows is constantly overdubbing himself over the music and it's like, DUDE. I JUST WANT TO HEAR WHAT THE OTHER MEMBERS ARE PLAYING
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Album Rating: 3.0
Rockarollacola you certainly are one of the users on this site, I’ll give you that
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Album Rating: 3.0
FWIW AMOLAD and Book of Souls are both in my top 5 maiden and I’m a lifelong fan B^)
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Album Rating: 4.5
Objectively bad opinion more like it. And I’m sick of hearing about it
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Album Rating: 2.5
Meh, boring album tbh.
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Album Rating: 3.5
I think the rating of the review is accurate and I share nearly all the criticisms. Still the review focuses so much on the bad parts that it rather reads like a 2.5 - 3.
This album has some very good tunes and parts but is overlong and feels incohesive at parts. It's a mixed bag, nothing less and nothing more.
Take 'Lost In a Lost world'. The typical problem that the intro is meandering (in a bad way, not in a hypnotical, drawing you in, good way) and does nothing for the song (except setting up the segue at the end which kinda fits after the song). The song would lose nothing without it (or with being cut short to let's say 15 seconds just in order to prepare the segue at the end of the song).. After this, it's a very decent song with a strong and atmospheric chorus. Somewhat the strengths and weaknesses of the album are perfectly encapsulated in that song.
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Album Rating: 2.5 | Sound Off
Bruce sounds fucking awful on some of these songs
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Album Rating: 4.0
Hell On Earth is still a banger.
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Album Rating: 2.0
Brave new world aside Later era maiden sucks tbh. Will not return son
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off
"Objectively bad opinion more like it. And I’m sick of hearing about it"
Typical Maiden fanboy denial. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Maiden fan too, but if we allow them to put out low effort garbage like this, we will never get another quality album out of them. Stop rewarding these guys for putting out bullshit like this.
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Album Rating: 3.0
“If we allow them to put out low effort garbage like this…stop rewarding these guys for putting out bullshit”
Bro we’re not training Rottweilers we’re talking about pensioners just making some tunes for fun. I promise you negative reinforcement training is completely irrelevant when it comes to modern day iron maiden albums.
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Album Rating: 2.5
People are also allowed to dislike an album. If you enjoy it it's also fine, music is subjective.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Cheers for the insight there rastapunk, but everyone must conform to my opinions 
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Album Rating: 4.5
"People are also allowed to dislike an album. If you enjoy it it's also fine, music is subjective. "
I mean yeah, but saying that any type of art form is subjective represents the cheapest, most lame way of having an argument/discussion.
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Pretty sure iron maiden doesn't really care if anyone likes their new albums at this point lol
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Album Rating: 4.5
i'd say that differently by pretty sure iron maiden are stuck in their ways at this point
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Album Rating: 2.5
"I mean yeah, but saying that any type of art form is subjective represents the cheapest, most lame way of having an argument/discussion."
"Rockarollacola you certainly are one of the users on this site, I’ll give you that"
"Objectively bad opinion more like it. And I’m sick of hearing about it"
Yes, top notch arguments.
My post didn't say don't discuss your opinions, it meant be respectful of each other's.
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