Voto:
Valerione the fool: you said "never in the charts" and I wonderfully called you out on it! I could dismiss you with a puah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah! and I will, but later. Your sister's photocopy albums, they never made them. If you have the guts and the time, read what I have to say to you. Otherwise, fuck off and live your depression with the half-baked crap you listen to, which isn’t Lucio Battisti or the great Italian singer-songwriters (and what the hell is that inhuman jerk Pappalardo doing at the top?). The debut was a hybrid of heavy Sabbath influences with punk; punk much less present in Killers. Punk disappears in The Number of the Beast, making way for hard rock COMBINED WITH VERY FAST HEAVY METAL INSPIRED BY Judas Priest (twin guitars above all and the extraordinary voice—which your shitty singers could only dream of—of Bruce Dickinson). Piece of Mind had a less fast and more measured, martial, and epic design. Powerslave, on the other hand, partially followed in the footsteps of "The Number of...", yet introducing further novelties, such as a glimpse of progressive moments (especially in the legendary “Rime of The Ancient Mariner”). It doesn’t end here because the subsequent Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son significantly increase the progressive moments (Seventh Son…) and the use of keyboards and synths (which at the time, in heavy metal, was considered scandalous). Therefore, further attempts at sonic innovation, with Bruce Dickinson (especially in Seventh Son) never so inspired. It doesn’t end here. When they released “No Prayer for the Dying”, they created an album that tried to trace the footsteps of the past (due to a lukewarm response from diehard fans to the new keyboard and synth ideas in the Maiden's latest albums; albums that would be re-evaluated only years later with hindsight). However, “No Prayer” turned out to be the MOST SHITTY album of the iron maiden (and it is. I think it's terrible). “Fear of the Dark,” on the other hand, contains dizzying hits that are easily forgotten among the obscenity of serious Z bands (but the title track and some songs will stand the test of time). The Blaze Bailey era did not prove good for the band, especially since the fans were attached to Bruce and, above all, because Blaze's voice was ill-suited for the Maiden songs. The fact is that a dark and innovative album for the band's genre (martial songs drenched in darkness) like “The X Factor” doesn’t just get written overnight. A beautiful album but poor due to a disgusting production and a not-exactly-outstanding singer. Virtual attempts a new step towards innovation but turns out to be crap (due to production and Y-series songs, with Bailey more at ease but the rest of the group being flaccid, especially due to Adrian Smith's departure). When they rehired Bruce, Brave New World came out and sales skyrocketed worldwide (Italy included), reaching the top of the charts. The album is one of the most beautiful ever written by the Maiden, with songs like “The Wicker Man” harking back to the golden days and songs like Blood Brothers (where prog metal and epicness are through the roof) YOUR FRIENDS CAN'T WRITE THEM EVEN IF THEY SOLD THEIR SOUL TO THE DEVIL IN PERSON, YOU PRAT! I've already talked about “Dance of Death,” an album that screwed all the international singers by shooting to the top of the charts. Then there’s the last album, a strange album but, in some ways, beautiful. In some ways because it’s totally “no-heavy metal” but exclusively focused on very long, technical, and progressive songs, inspired by the geniuses of 70s prog rock (and if you don’t know them, then shoot yourself up with an overdose of coke and see if you can die). I’ll conclude by wishing you a happy death and a puah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah promised at the beginning.
