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"Hallowed Be Thy Name" is the final track on Iron Maiden's 1982 album The Number of the Beast. The song was written by bassist Steve Harris and has been acclaimed as one of the greatest heavy metal songs of all time. It is also considered one of the band's signature songs. [1]
In addition to the album's artwork and title, the song was a prominent target of religious groups in the United States who accused Iron Maiden of being a Satanic group. [ 5 ] [ 25 ] The controversy led to organised burnings of the group's albums as well as several protests during their 1982 tour , [ 2 ] [ 25 ] although this would only serve to ...
No Prayer for the Dying is the eighth studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It is their first album to feature Janick Gers on guitar, who replaced Adrian Smith . Smith left the band during the pre-production phase, unhappy with the musical direction it was taking, [ 1 ] and only having contributed to one song, "Hooks in You".
When Maiden rereleased all of their pre-The X Factor albums in 1998, this album was combined with A Real Live One to form the two-disc A Real Live Dead One. The cover is by long-time Maiden artist Derek Riggs, and depicts Eddie as a disc jockey in Hell. "Hallowed Be Thy Name" was released as a single and hit No.9 on UK singles chart.
"Running Free" is the debut single by Iron Maiden, released on 8 February 1980 on the 7" 45 rpm vinyl record format. It was written by Steve Harris and Paul Di'Anno.The song appears as the third track on the band's debut album Iron Maiden (and the fourth track on its 1998 re-release).
"The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg" is a song by Iron Maiden, released on 14 August 2006 as the lead single from their fourteenth studio album, A Matter of Life and Death. It preceded the release of the album by eleven days. The CD single comes with a B-side of "Hallowed Be Thy Name" from the BBC Radio 1 Legends Session.
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris.Although fluid in the early years of the band, the line-up for most of the band's history has consisted of Harris, lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson, drummer Nicko McBrain, and guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers.
It was also the first Iron Maiden album to feature keyboards, after the band had introduced non-keyboard synth effects on their previous LP, Somewhere in Time (1986). After his contributions were rejected for Somewhere in Time , Seventh Son of a Seventh Son features several songs co-written by lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson , who states that his ...