Iron Maiden: The Final Frontier

Did anyone see them live supporting this album and did Bruce only sing half the lyrics then as well?
 
Isle of Avalon and the Talisman.... classics !!!

A less dark album compared to DOD and AMOLAD, actually a totally different sound compared to all of the reunion albums.

Almost no uptempo stuff on this record, except for The Alchemist, but a very solid album with no fillers.

I'm very happy with it, might become the best one of the reunion albums.
 
This is the album where Maiden needs to stop. When you start taking riffs from songs like 'No More Lies', you need to get some new ideas flowing. It started picking up around track 7 though, so there might be some promise there.
 
I was severely concerned after listening to the El Dorado preview and the title track video... but honestly I'm now surprised to find I like both in the context of the album as a whole.

It's not perfect, but it's a really solid album as a whole, and it's definitely a grower. After the pre-release hype I found myself a little underwhelmed by When the Wild Wind Blows, which I'd expected to be monumental... but yeah, really enjoying the album. Second to AMoLaD in the post-reunion canon, for me (BNW and its extraordinarily repetitive choruses comes in 3rd, the definitely-patchy-but-occasionally-brilliant-and-still-after-seven-years-it-makes-me-say-dear-God-THAT-COVER Dance of Death in 4th).

EDIT: And Satellite 15 is PURE AWESOME. (I have a feeling that might not be a popularly-held opinion.)
 
the album is very good, they still have the ol Maiden gallop ive always loved