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Iron Maiden kept the momentum going with
Dance of Death, following the immense success of
Brave New World. The new album was very much in the same vein as the previous effort stylistically, though perhaps it went a little farther down the progressive path, particularly on songs like the expansive, stop-and-go Paschendale and acoustic-infused title song.
Dance of Death also features Nicko McBrain's sole songwriting credit with Iron Maiden, on New Frontier.
For the first time, there's really not much of note to say about this album. There were no major lineup changes, and the album was very much a stylistic continuation of the previous effort. Not that this is a bad thing—
Dance of Death is a good album that was pretty well-received, though not as well as
Brave New World.
The one big flaw that this album has is the album art. It's an early experiment in CGI that failed pretty massively. The guy who designed it sent this image as a prototype, and the band decided they wanted to go ahead and use it as the artwork, which the designer was not happy about at all, since he thought it looked terrible! It pretty much does.
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I like this album, but it's definitely the least of the reunion ones for me. It just has a few songs that don't really work that well, like Wildest Dreams, New Frontier and Age of Innocence. That said, it also has some really good ones, like Paschendale, Montsegur and Rainmaker. My first vote has to got (sorry Nicko!) to...
New Frontier
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