Iron Maiden A Matter Of Life And Death
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Dragonforce89
August 18th 2013


332 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

This is my favoriteCD by Iron Maiden.

OmairSh
August 30th 2013


17931 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Albums too friggin long. For the greater good of God has like 10 choruses

manosg
Emeritus
August 30th 2013


12714 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Album's excellent but I still prefer all their 80s stuff over this one.

climactic
August 30th 2013


22921 Comments


this album has a really cool, dark, natural quality that no other album of theirs has

Butkuiss
October 8th 2013


8746 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Best maiden CD and Benjamin Breeg has the most fucking epic doom riff maiden ever wrote.

JamieTwort
October 8th 2013


26988 Comments


This is right up there with some of their classics. I wouldn't say it's their best though.

BigPleb
October 8th 2013


65808 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

These Colours Don't Run is so epic.

SIMBOLIC
October 8th 2013


6743 Comments


@butkuiss


>Best maiden
> Not a 5

?????????????????

Nagrarok
October 8th 2013


8656 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Everything up to and including Seventh Son > everything else, but still rules.

Beauers
October 8th 2013


400 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah this album is up there for me, but I actually prefer the ones that came immediately before and obviously all the classics

manosg
Emeritus
October 8th 2013


12714 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I'll agree with Nagrarok.

JamieTwort
October 8th 2013


26988 Comments


Everything up to and including Seventh Son > everything else, but still rules.


Personally I prefer this to Piece of Mind, the inconsistency of that album really drags it down for me, probably more than it should tbh given how good the album's highlights are but as a whole this definitely feels like a much more well-crafted album than that one to me.

This is probably closer to a 4 for me but it gets the extra 0.5 due to sentimental value (hence why I have it rated higher than a couple of their other classic-era albums).

JamieTwort
October 8th 2013


26988 Comments


I actually prefer the ones that came immediately before


This beats both BNW and DoD comfortably for me.

demigod!
October 8th 2013


49662 Comments


its great, might bump

Beauers
October 9th 2013


400 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

@JamieTwort



There is little to nothing between them all for me, but there's just something that brings me back to Brave New World and Dance Of Death more often than this. The rare occasion I'll put this on, it blows me away, but I really need to be in the mood.

JamieTwort
October 9th 2013


26988 Comments


This has quite a dark and intense atmosphere that no other Maiden album has so I can understand what you're saying about needing to be in a certain mood to fully enjoy this.

Butkuiss
October 9th 2013


8746 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This is far from their most influential or renowned album but I feel like it's their best attempt at cohesive songwriting, flow, quasi-conceptual lyricism and moving away from their usual tropes and cliches just far enough to sound different, and that's why I love it so much.

JamieTwort
October 9th 2013


26988 Comments


This is definitely one of their most cohesive and well-crafted albums. Some of their 80's albums were somewhat lacking in cohesion and consistency (that's the only negative I can think of regarding their classic era).

Beauers
October 9th 2013


400 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

It does feel like the previous albums had a couple tracks they'd written just to go shit, too many epics, better write a couple singles too. On this one I definitely think they just went fuck it let's write an actual "album" and it'll be however we want it to be. That's the brilliance of it.

Butkuiss
October 10th 2013


8746 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Different World is really the only song that feels like a generic single written to sit between the epics and is really the only reason this is a 4.5. Top song, but Brighter Than A Thousand Suns should open this album.



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