Being a huge fan of Iron Maiden, I must have the courage to review this album.
We all know that Iron Maiden is a Heavy Metal Band with beautiful albums behind them, like: (Killers 81, Piece Of Mind 83, Somewhere In Time 86, and Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 88)
No Pryer For The Dying is a loner, an outcast.
It's 1990, when Adrian Smith, after working with the band on the concept of Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, tired from the (grueling tours)
decided to leave the band.
And so it was that the iron maiden found itself in a void and momentary collapse, was forced to magnetize a certain Janick Gers (technically different from Smith) who over time demonstrated a maturity, developed over the years with the band, up until today.
We must keep in mind that, the divorce from Smith was not an easy thing for the iron maiden, which found itself plummeting between void and uncertainty.
Let me say that the career of an artist is not easy at all.
Sure, there are times of blooming, the calm and clear sea, but when we face a storm, we run for cover!
(The calm after the storm)
There you go! N.P.F.T.D. is the calm after the storm!
Who knows how many of you will have thrown this album into oblivion, on the shelves of oblivion... I'm sure you did, I can see it from here, poor thing, all alone, in the dark of the graves with Eddie intending to get out...
Exactly!
Can you imagine Eddie victim of the iron maiden?
What a horror!
What an affront! All those great masterpieces of the past, thrown against the maiden... what a blow!
Anyway, (and with this I conclude) No Prayer For The Dying is a country cemetery, hidden among fog and cypresses, where the rain settles to mirror the dance of the birds, in the splendid autumn days!
Only the most faithful will find themselves there to visit this hidden cemetery, to bring some shy flowers to their loved ones!
Now all I have left to say is: (welcome crisis)!
"No Prayer For The Dying is worthy in every respect of being part of the Iron Maiden saga."
"Mother Russia is a real masterpiece of the album: of rare beauty and evocative power."
"it presents no novelty, there’s an air of déjà vu throughout the album."
"No Prayer For The Dying is a banal, ordinary album, lacking a backbone: if not mediocre, definitely insufficient."