Metal Reviews

Yes, I have as a matter of fact always thought that exceptional music is a creative synthesis of all kinds of styles with the artist(s) own perspective of music. I can quite follow your view because I think you have pointed out that keeping a music style without much changes is a lack of creativity. Since music is a form of art, I think that creativity is an essential characteric of music.

wtf? You know English?

And he's right too

Maybe he copied and paste from another site...

Why should I do something like that? I have just contributed to this site, whether you like it or not.

Dude i was just joking, hopefully no one will ever lower himself like that..

I posted this in another thread and just couldn't bear to write it all again:

I finally got it, and after one listen, I think this album is being severely underrated - not so much by critics, who mostly seem to be giving it solid praise - but by the fans. I can see why, since most of the speed has been taken back another notch, and thare are alot of clean intros, even more than on BNW, but I was amazed with the depth most of these songs have. If you take away Wildest Dreams 2 (as I call Different World) and The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg (too repetitive), I think it's a great album. The songs all seem to really mean something. Sure, I just want my Iron Maiden to just go out and , but I have plenty of albums where they do that better than the old guys could probably pull it off now, so it's nice to have a serious change in direction for at least one album. The song lengths don't bother me either because I think most of the longer songs just had that much to say, especially For the Greater Good of God.

Anyway, I give it an 8/10 because of the two duds - should have been an 8-song album, and it still would have been over an hour anyway

I for one prefer how maiden keep to their style. we dont need more bands to go metallica on us to ruin metal

I still prefer BNW tho.

I'm still wondering why Ken gave this a 50. Everybody has his own taste and opinions and I totally respect and like that but I'm mystified to know what he found so bad or lacking that made him give this score. Even Sharon Osbourne would probably rate this above 50!

Ken has bad taste in music...

I generally like what he likes and his reviews and suggestions tend to be suited to my tastes. Plus I believe he always has good reasons behind his views so that's why I'm so curious about this.

Coming from you?

Well, popular opnion among metalheads is that this album is brilliant, so...

Also: I listened to this again last night. Godamn its good.

I think it's a solid CD from Iron Maiden with many flaws. First, the length of the majority of the songs is too long. Most of them could certainly have been shortened and been very powerful. The intros are too long and sound entirely too similiar.

The decision to not master the CD was a terrible idea. You have to crank the volume considerably to get it to a decent listening level in any stereo. I was running a station on Live365 last year and if I played a normal mastered track and then something from AMOLAD you couldn't here the track from AMOLAD because it's too weak. So, now a new song comes on from a different band and your blowing your speakers out because that CD was mastered and is playing at a normal volume.

Some of the repetitive chorus' need to go or again, be shortened. "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" and For The Greater Good of God" absolutely beat you up with their chorus' as much as "No More Lies" did on Dance of Death.

To be honest I can't even listen to the last two tracks at all. "Lord of Light" and "The Legacy" IMO are terrible Maiden songs that just sound awful. At one point it sounds like Bruce is singing from the bottom of a well.

These guys can and have prouced much better material. I was disappointed with this one ..overall.

Well, this album.. is great. Best albums since Dickinson's return, it's also an interesting album because it shows an album which Maiden has never done before. Sure, they've had some songs on which they tried to go all epic on us, but it's exciting how they go all-in on this one and make a whole album in that particular style. With a few exceptions though

I really like "Dance of Death" the most since the return of Bruce and Adrian. I feel they really covered alot of ground on DOD. I personally think that AMOLAD is a huge exaggeration of everything they've done in the past but poorly executed. I just don't hear anything fresh on AMOLAD. The only thing new is that they're playing their latest signature sound at lengths that are tiresome and unnecessary. The only other added new twist was not mastering the CD which was one of the worst decisions they've ever made. The production just sounds amature at best.

However, I have to say that I like "Different World", "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg", and "For The Greater Good of God". "Lord of Light" and "the Legacy" are two of the worst Maiden songs ever recorded; the rest are just mediocre. Really boring actually.

The Pilgrim is mediocre and boring? C'mon

IMO.....Yes it is. In comparison to what Iron Maiden is capable of......Yes it is.

Gotta love The Longest Day! The pre-chorus is one of the most awesome pieces of music from maiden.

A very good album, though it's not as good as my maiden favorite album, Brave New World.