1. Wildest Dreams
2. Rainmaker
3. No More Lies
4. Montsegur
5. Dance Of Death
6. Gates Of Tomorrow
7. New Frontier
8. Paschendale
9. Face In The Sand
10. The Age Of Innocence
11. Journeyman
This album is another memorial one. The final concert of "Dance Of Death World Tour" was the first live show that I watched with my own eyes. I still remember that day. I just turned 18. That concert has two opening acts, Sonata Arctica and Arch Enemy. They were both great, but Iron Maiden totally ate them both. Their performance was more than exciting. It was fantastic!!
Anyways, that was enough for my story. I think this album was the real crucial moment for the band. Fans welcome last albums with open arms because of the return of Bruce and Adrian. Nevertheless, this album was the one that they had to prove themselves. This was the album they had to show the real ability, and they did it!! The arrangement of each song was more developed. I think it is due to the last tour they had. Three guitarists really united as a team.
1. Wildest Dreams
A catchy opening number. Another Adrian's rock song. It seems like writing an opening song became one of his assignment.
2. Rainmaker
It has a beautiful typical Dave melody. I always loved his songs such as "Dejavu" and "Judas Be My Guide" because he always write beautiful melody, and he did another one with this song. I was really happy to hear this song live because his songs were often not played at concert.
3. No More Lies
Typical (whenever I talk about Iron Maiden, I used this word a lot. I am using in good terms of course) Steve's song. Very progressive and dramatic.
4. Montsegur
A powerful metal tune. Bruce's vocal is outrageous.
5. Dance Of Death
The title track. Very dramatic and beautiful. I still clearly remember that Janic, the main composer of the song, was dancing as he played the main melody of this song at concert.
6. Gates Of Tomorrow
Starts with impressive riff. This is another good rock tune.
7. New Frontier
The first and the only song that was written by the drummer, Nicko Mcbrain. It has good progression in the middle.
8. Paschendale
The tone and feeling of the album changes all sudden with this song. It has very unique intro riff. This is the first progressive song that Adrian Smith wrote. Usually, he writes more simple and straight-forward songs, but this was his first attempt to write a long song. The result was amazing! This song is very dark and dramatic. The song has good intonation between quiet parts and loud parts. This song was definitely one of the highlights in this album. You can picture the battle of war when you listen to this song.
9. Face In The Sand
Starts with beautiful and dramatic intro. This song was the first time that Nicko used double pedals (It is really unbelievable to see what he can do with one pedal!).
10. The Age Of Innocence
This song has dark tone at the beginning and verses, but the song changes to major key and has chorus with bright tone.
11. Journeyman
Their first acoustic ballad. This song was originally played by electric guitars, but then they played with acoustic and recorded. I am very glad that they decided to use this version. The most beautiful and dramatic ballad they have ever written.
Every single song in this is amazing, and the album became impeccable. They proved that the band is still active and full of energy and magic!!
☆☆☆☆☆
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