Welcome back to another addition of METAL MARCH, an entire month dedicated to one of my favorite genres of music!
Today I bring you my personal favorite Iron Maiden album. Now if you don't know who Iron Maiden is, than let me spell it out for you in the simplest way possible: Iron Maiden are one of the finest metal acts of the 80s and beyond, they put out a long stream of genre defining albums (including this one) and helped pioneer a bigger, more epic sound in metal that took the genre from the basements and cramped venues of the 70s and into the big, ambitious stadiums that would go on to define the decade. Fellow British metal acts like Judas Priest would contribute to this as well, but none were finer (at least in my opinion) than Iron Maiden.
Peace Of Mind is the second album in a trilogy of albums that most Iron Maiden fans would say are the band's best, Number Of The Beast, Peace Of Mind, and another favorite of mine, Powerslave. Now, I love Powerslave to death, but I pick this album for one reason, "The Trooper". This track is simply my all-time favorite Iron Maiden track and is still a track that makes me want to through up the horns and headbang the whole way through.
Other tracks on here justify it being featured, such as the opener, "Where Eagles Dare" which is the superior song in Iron Maiden's discography about aerial combat, by the way, and is just such a great way to start this album, with a galloping riff (a signature of Iron Maiden) and solos that take you on a journey. Other fantastic moments are the military themed "Die With Your Boots On" and the fantastic closer "To Tame A Land".
Really, you can't go wrong with any Iron Maiden album that came out in the 80s, they were simply an unstoppable metal machine during that decade, and while their output since then has been hit-or-miss, I still think Iron Maiden is worth checking out if haven't already listened to them before.
9.5/10
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