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I will always claim that Iron Maiden will never do an album
as good as their self-titled debut from 1981 but they are getting close with
some of their subsequent releases and this includes "Seventh Son Of A Seventh
Son". Not surprisingly this is the seventh full-length offering from the
legendary British band. Bruce Dickinson does some of his most impressive
vocals on this album, including the wonderful epic title track and the
mid-paced "The Prophecy". These two songs clearly stand out as my favorite
tracks but I know that a lot of people prefer more strictly chorus based
compositions such as the sing-along hit "Can I Play With Madness". Even
though this album is not perfect all the way through and there are a few songs
that sound slightly boring at times every single minute of it breathes of Iron
Maiden with wonderful guitar riffs, beautiful melodies and equisite vocals
delivered by one of the real giants in the history of metal. This is not my
favorite Iron Maiden release but I could still not dream of not owning a copy
of it. The band may never be again what they once were but they have produced
lots of great music that we can enjoy over and over again even today. At this
time Iron Maiden began to use keyboard arrangements in some of their songs but
they use them with care and they manage to make them blend into the music very
nicely without stealing the attention from the guitar work of Adrian Smith and
Dave Murray. Iron Maiden can do and have done better than this but "Seventh
Son Of A Seventh Son" is still a wonderful album that will always find its
way into my cd player once in a while.
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1. Moonchild 2. |
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Infinite Dreams 3. Can I Play With Madness? 4. The Evil That Men |
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Do 5. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 6. The Prophecy 7. The |
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Clairvoyant 8. Only The Good Die Young |
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