I feel like this is how everyone feels, the second half of the album is just so much better, no questions about it.

Yeah exactly how i felt too....i rated a 7

I have to disagree with you.

I kind've agree with the review, except that I enjoyed 2 songs in the first half of the album, ("El Dorado" and "Mother Of Mercy") plus the opening harmony riff in "The Alchemist". And I think that "When The Wild Wind Blows" is the weakest in the 2nd half of the album aisde from "Starblind". Though I do share the general consensus that the 2nd half of the album is much stronger than the 1st half.

Nice review. xD

Oh my Havent heard it but this sounds terrible. And unfortunately, expected...

I mostly agree with the review, bar liking "Starblind" on the latter half instead of "When the Wild Wind Blows". The finisher is just generic hard rock most of the time, but kudos to Harris for writing it so that 11 minutes is almost justified. "El Dorado" isn't that bad either...

I need to listen to it more but so far its kinda boarring and reminds me of their last cd... i really miss being able to hear steve harris galloping bass but it seems like he doesnt really try anymore...

I would say the weakest songs are the first 2... Satellite 15 and El Dorado... Then after it's getting a bit better with a more "Maiden" sound we know, then goes progressive a bit more with the 2nd half of the album, wich is a good part imo. 7.7 because of the first 2 songs and because the 2 following are kinda normal but still enjoyable !

Pretty fair review i guess, i still enjoy the album quite a lot though. I noticed Bruce's voice sounds weak on certain songs and very good on others which i find odd. My favourite song is When The Wild Wind Blows by far.

Congratulations to the reviewer for daring to criticize the so tremendously overrated Maiden. I guess the cocksucking Maiden fanboys won't be happy to read criticism at their outdated has-been band, but the opinions of fanboys don't hold any value. If it pains them so much to hear the criticism I suggest as a cure for their suffering to find a high bridge and jump down.

About "sounding like shit", I agree. Production is awful. Drums, guitars, vocals, everything sounds weak, worn out and crappy.

"What the hell have they done to Iron Maiden?". It sounds nothing like Maiden in the 80s, indeed. And it feels more like hard rock than metal most of the time.

Songwriting is really poor, yes. It just plods and drags for minutes. Utterly boring and directionless. So overstretched the album could last 1/3 or maybe 1/4 of its actual length and it would benefit from it. Yeah, nothing memorable.

A snoozefest of an album full of worn out sounding songs by a worn out band that should have called a quit long ago.

Now, to all the cocksucking Maiden fanboys: feel free to come on this thread and release your petty anger like you did on the other thread. It will only prove how easy it is to piss off every imbecile.
I just wished to give my two cents more specifically on the album but won't reply to blind fanboys on this thread, exactly like I stopped replying on the other thread, so you will perhaps understand that I was serious when I said Maiden fanboys worth less than shit to me.
Anyway, feeding trolls only make them more fat, ugly, stinking and stupid.

It's still a good heavy metal album, but as an Iron Maiden album, it's their worst with Dickinson. Shit, I even liked Virtual XI more. I hope their next one (if that one isn't really "final") wouldn't be more shitty.

Hilarious review.

And Hidden_Dictator, I don't know what your problem is, but you are acting like a 5 year old.

Best Reunion Maiden Album

Written by RavenKing on 17.08.2010 at 00:44

Congratulations to the reviewer for daring to criticize the so tremendously overrated Maiden. I guess the cocksucking Maiden fanboys won't be happy to read criticism at their outdated has-been band, but the opinions of fanboys don't hold any value. If it pains them so much to hear the criticism I suggest as a cure for their suffering to find a high bridge and jump down.

Actually, most fans of Maiden appreciate honest reviews. You haven't given one. Instead, you come in with unoriginal ways to have us die. Jumping of a bridge? What? Why are you dusting off insults from 1956?

Written by RavenKing on 17.08.2010 at 00:44

About "sounding like shit", I agree. Production is awful. Drums, guitars, vocals, everything sounds weak, worn out and crappy.

Says the black metal guy.

Written by RavenKing on 17.08.2010 at 00:44

Songwriting is really poor, yes. It just plods and drags for minutes. Utterly boring and directionless. So overstretched the album could last 1/3 or maybe 1/4 of its actual length and it would benefit from it. Yeah, nothing memorable.

I think you're over-shitting on the album. I think you do this because you seem like a character who loathes everything anyway.

Written by RavenKing on 17.08.2010 at 00:44

Now, to all the cocksucking Maiden fanboys: feel free to come on this thread and release your petty anger like you did on the other thread. It will only prove how easy it is to piss off every imbecile.
I just wished to give my two cents more specifically on the album but won't reply to blind fanboys on this thread, exactly like I stopped replying on the other thread, so you will perhaps understand that I was serious when I said Maiden fanboys worth less than shit to me.
Anyway, feeding trolls only make them more fat, ugly, stinking and stupid.

You have been doing this run of I-don't-care-even-though-I-keep-coming-back for days now. Nobody came in with petty anger, we only challenged you to tell us why you didn't like it. And speaking of petty anger, if we were to take both of our posts and place them side by side, I'm 100% certain your hate speech would topple anything I ever said.

So I need to catch up.

Hey, you cocksucking cuntface, while your mother was licking my balls, I ejaculated in her eye and thought about you lighting yourself on fire while running hopelessly into a highway to play real-life Frogger, and having your head flattened by a fucking truck. To see your worthless brain matter painting the road orchestrates the perfect dream. Just another piece of shit that's giving up the air he's breathing for someone more worthy.

I bet you never get laid. The only way you ever will is by crawling up a chicken's ass. Nobody wants to touch you or your Kreator shit, you fucking greasy, wacky-ass wanker. Not even a desperate homeless man would give you his digits after you suck his dick. I bet you're all alone. Not a single person wants to be anywhere near your shitty black metal and your smelly balls.

Now that I played your game, fuck off.

As far as the review, whatever. I don't have a problem with it. Unlike Dick over here, the guy sounded as if he actually listened to it. Although the first four songs really isn't 40% of the album, considering the last six are much, much longer.

Reasonable review, though the rating is at least 2 full points too high. "Where the Wild Wind Blows" is, to my ears, hands down the worst song on the album by a large margin. It is pure cheese, and not in a good way. It's rather like saying "Quest for Fire" is the best track on Piece of Mind. "The Talisman" is the only song worth listening to as far as I'm concerned.

Opinions...assholes...everyone knows the drill.

Written by Papa_Ray on 17.08.2010 at 04:13

Hilarious review.

Best Reunion Maiden Album

well, i disagree, best reunion album is Brave New World. At least BNW had two outstanding songs - Nomad and the Thin Line between Love and Hate; the new album does not have (in my opinion obviously) any songs that reach the level of these two songs. Not even the level of the song Pashendale, the only amazing song from 2003 Dance of death album. excuse my subjectivity.

First disappointing maiden's album! I'm a fan for almost 20 years, and never been disappointed except with this one Totally agree with the review, the first half of the album is OK, and the second half is average. The last song was the only good song in this album.

Written by Guest on 17.08.2010 at 05:23

Written by Papa_Ray on 17.08.2010 at 04:13

Hilarious review.

Best Reunion Maiden Album

well, i disagree, best reunion album is Brave New World. At least BNW had two outstanding songs - Nomad and the Thin Line between Love and Hate; the new album does not have (in my opinion obviously) any songs that reach the level of these two songs. Not even the level of the song Pashendale, the only amazing song from 2003 Dance of death album. excuse my subjectivity.

I am surprised to see that you think The Thin Line Between Love and Hate is a better song than Ghost of the Navigator and Blood Brothers. Either way, Isle of Avalon, Starblind, and When the Wild Wind Blows are all easily up to par with those songs you mentioned. This is an extremely solid album, in my opinion.

It's kind of funny. People complained about all of the repetitive choruses and open soft/end soft songs Maiden have done recently, and here they have completely changed. The Final Frontier is the only song with a repetitive chorus and The Man Who Would Be King and When the Wild Wind Blows are the only two songs that are bookended with softer music. It seems that no matter what Maiden do, people who still expect them to rewrite The Trooper and The Evil That Men Do over and over again will always find something to complain about, even when a truly great album slaps them in the face.

Wonderful album.

On a side note, Dickinson's lyrics to Starblind are absolutely masterful. Truly art.

Why did they do this horrible intro to "The Final Frontier" Song!? I think that song is really good but everytime I want to hear it I have to skip the intro. They could just make them in two separate tracks.
I agree with your review but if my maths are right the 4 first songs are the shortest ones so even if the album has 10 songs those 4 songs at the begining are less than a 40% of the album.
Sorry for my english, I'm from Chile, Southamerica.

I haven't heard of the album yet, and almost everyone seems to agree with this review. Honestly I'm not surprised, but that won't stop my curiosity and buying it. I'll post my critics when I have a formed opinion.

Written by RavenKing on 17.08.2010 at 00:44

Congratulations to the reviewer for daring to criticize the so tremendously overrated Maiden. I guess the cocksucking Maiden fanboys won't be happy to read criticism at their outdated has-been band, but the opinions of fanboys don't hold any value. If it pains them so much to hear the criticism I suggest as a cure for their suffering to find a high bridge and jump down.

About "sounding like shit", I agree. Production is awful. Drums, guitars, vocals, everything sounds weak, worn out and crappy.

"What the hell have they done to Iron Maiden?". It sounds nothing like Maiden in the 80s, indeed. And it feels more like hard rock than metal most of the time.

Songwriting is really poor, yes. It just plods and drags for minutes. Utterly boring and directionless. So overstretched the album could last 1/3 or maybe 1/4 of its actual length and it would benefit from it. Yeah, nothing memorable.

A snoozefest of an album full of worn out sounding songs by a worn out band that should have called a quit long ago.

Now, to all the cocksucking Maiden fanboys: feel free to come on this thread and release your petty anger like you did on the other thread. It will only prove how easy it is to piss off every imbecile.
I just wished to give my two cents more specifically on the album but won't reply to blind fanboys on this thread, exactly like I stopped replying on the other thread, so you will perhaps understand that I was serious when I said Maiden fanboys worth less than shit to me.
Anyway, feeding trolls only make them more fat, ugly, stinking and stupid.

Oh, shut the f--k up already.

Anyway, I'm currently in the middle of the first half and it's quite bland so far, but I'll see if it evolves.

Written by RavenKing on 17.08.2010 at 00:44

Congratulations to the reviewer for daring to criticize the so tremendously overrated Maiden. I guess the cocksucking Maiden fanboys won't be happy to read criticism at their outdated has-been band, but the opinions of fanboys don't hold any value. If it pains them so much to hear the criticism I suggest as a cure for their suffering to find a high bridge and jump down.

About "sounding like shit", I agree. Production is awful. Drums, guitars, vocals, everything sounds weak, worn out and crappy.

"What the hell have they done to Iron Maiden?". It sounds nothing like Maiden in the 80s, indeed. And it feels more like hard rock than metal most of the time.

Songwriting is really poor, yes. It just plods and drags for minutes. Utterly boring and directionless. So overstretched the album could last 1/3 or maybe 1/4 of its actual length and it would benefit from it. Yeah, nothing memorable.

A snoozefest of an album full of worn out sounding songs by a worn out band that should have called a quit long ago.

Now, to all the cocksucking Maiden fanboys: feel free to come on this thread and release your petty anger like you did on the other thread. It will only prove how easy it is to piss off every imbecile.
I just wished to give my two cents more specifically on the album but won't reply to blind fanboys on this thread, exactly like I stopped replying on the other thread, so you will perhaps understand that I was serious when I said Maiden fanboys worth less than shit to me.
Anyway, feeding trolls only make them more fat, ugly, stinking

You're mad; and it's most likely because of the immense intimidation Maiden fans present to you. Sir, I do pitty you.

What a legendary album!

...that we're never going to speak of again.

If Maiden were writing shit like it was still 1988, the same people would be blasting them for not changing.

1988 was 22 years ago. Get over it. Move on.

Written by Thryce on 17.08.2010 at 14:30

What a legendary album!

...that we're never going to speak of again.

True.

What a terribly boring album - I'd give it around a 5 for being so...mellow.

Don't these guys remember who they are anymore? (Not an Alzheimer's joke, I assure you.)

Written by LordMaiden on 17.08.2010 at 14:56

If Maiden were writing shit like it was still 1988, the same people would be blasting them for not changing.

1988 was 22 years ago. Get over it. Move on.

Sure, but move on to something good, don't wade in mediocrity.

Written by Daniell on 17.08.2010 at 15:23

Written by LordMaiden on 17.08.2010 at 14:56

If Maiden were writing shit like it was still 1988, the same people would be blasting them for not changing.

1988 was 22 years ago. Get over it. Move on.

Sure, but move on to something good, don't wade in mediocrity.

I think what's happening is most people who don't like it are simply becoming impatient with the intros. I understand that - but the intros, IMO, lead into spectacular songs. I don't mind if the meat has layers of plastic wrap around it, as long as the meat itself is of high quality. There are so many good things about the album, but it requires patience to appreciate it. The only major problem I have though, is the intro to The Talisman. It is a little too long.

And again, I make the point that many people bashing the album probably gave up on Maiden a long time ago. And I'll bet a gigantic sum that the departure happened between 1992 - 1999.

Most Maiden fans (the ones who didn't give up) consider DoD to be the worst of the modern albums. You know, the one with a bunch of 5 minute rockers.

The intros aren't what kill it for me - I get bored to death by their...pointlessness. Nothing seems to go anywhere. And when an album is over an hour long, it damn better be heading somewhere else I'll be heading to lala land.

Written by RavenKing on 17.08.2010 at 00:44

Congratulations to the reviewer for daring to criticize the so tremendously overrated Maiden. I guess the cocksucking Maiden fanboys won't be happy to read criticism at their outdated has-been band, but the opinions of fanboys don't hold any value. If it pains them so much to hear the criticism I suggest as a cure for their suffering to find a high bridge and jump down.

About "sounding like shit", I agree. Production is awful. Drums, guitars, vocals, everything sounds weak, worn out and crappy.

"What the hell have they done to Iron Maiden?". It sounds nothing like Maiden in the 80s, indeed. And it feels more like hard rock than metal most of the time.

Songwriting is really poor, yes. It just plods and drags for minutes. Utterly boring and directionless. So overstretched the album could last 1/3 or maybe 1/4 of its actual length and it would benefit from it. Yeah, nothing memorable.

A snoozefest of an album full of worn out sounding songs by a worn out band that should have called a quit long ago.

Now, to all the cocksucking Maiden fanboys: feel free to come on this thread and release your petty anger like you did on the other thread. It will only prove how easy it is to piss off every imbecile.
I just wished to give my two cents more specifically on the album but won't reply to blind fanboys on this thread, exactly like I stopped replying on the other thread, so you will perhaps understand that I was serious when I said Maiden fanboys worth less than shit to me.
Anyway, feeding trolls only make them more fat, ugly, stinking and stupid.

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As they say in Texas. I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker, a sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You couldn't attract flies if you were slathered in shit.
You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.

You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. The best part of you ran down your mother's leg a became a brown spot on the mattress.

I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?

Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.

You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.
You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.
And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake? You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.
On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.

You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill.

You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away. I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. So stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid.

Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know.
I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you my not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh.

The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us 'normal' people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are 'challenged' persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't have been 'right.' Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.

You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist, sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial, satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dystopic, stifling, uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, arassive, poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, clueless, and generally Not Good.

...Holy fucking hell.