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Iron Maiden is the debut studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 11 April 1980 [3] [4] by EMI Records in the UK and Harvest and Capitol Records in the US. The North American version included the song " Sanctuary ", released in the UK as a non-album single.
Despite being a member of the band since 1982, it took until 2003 for drummer Nicko McBrain to write a song for Iron Maiden, namely "New Frontier" for Dance of Death. During his brief tenure with the band, vocalist Blaze Bayley helped write eight songs on the two Iron Maiden albums on which he performed, The X Factor and Virtual XI, as well as ...
In 2010, Iron Maiden issued The Final Frontier, which was positively received by critics, [15] and debuted at No. 1 in over twenty-eight countries, [16] including the United Kingdom. [17] Their sixteenth studio effort, The Book of Souls , was released on 4 September 2015 and became their fifth UK No. 1 album.
Somewhere Back in Time - The Best of: 1980 - 1989 is a best of release by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, containing a selection of songs originally recorded for their first eight albums (including Live After Death).
The original Metal for Muthas album reached No. 12 on the British LP charts [6] and became the basis of a tour by the artists who contributed songs to the compilation. Iron Maiden, who headlined the tour, became largely intertwined with the history of Sanctuary Records (whose namesake was the similarly named Iron Maiden track on the compilation).
Live at the Rainbow is the first live video recorded by Iron Maiden on 21 December 1980 and released in 1981. It includes one of the band's earliest concerts with guitarist Adrian Smith as well as a very early version of "Killers", with lyrics that differ from the album version that would be released in 1981.
As pioneers of the new wave of British heavy metal movement, Iron Maiden released a series of UK and US Platinum and Gold albums, including 1980's debut album, 1981's Killers, and 1982's The Number of the Beast – its first album with Dickinson, who in 1981 replaced Paul Di'Anno as lead singer. The addition of Dickinson was a turning point in ...
As with all of Iron Maiden's albums during the 1980s and early 1990s, the sleeve artwork was painted by Derek Riggs. The cover was originally created for the song " Purgatory ", but manager Rod Smallwood deemed it of too high a calibre for the release of a mere single, and decided to save it for The Number of the Beast . [ 13 ]