But doesn't this happen everytime Maiden release an album/single? Some people love it, some people hate it.
Maiden must be used to it by now, I guess that's why they have the "we do what we want to do, if you don't like it we don't care" - type attitude.
It sounds like good 'ol Maiden to me, like it belongs in the company of their straight forward rockers like, Run To The Hills, Flight Of Icarus, Two Minutes To Midnight etc.
I guess the great thing is for me, is that it don't matter if some people hate it, cos' I love it and that's all that matters.
Up the Irons!