I wasn’t really into Heavy Metal until I became a Maiden fan in 1996. I know that’s late considering that this group has been rocking the Planet from the beginning of the 1980’s, but it’s never to late to try. I bought my first Maiden album ’’The Number of the Beast’’, on a trial basis. Well...that was it!! From that moment on I was hooked.
The statistics that accompany Maiden’s career are impressive (over 50 million albums sold; 13 Top Ten albums in the UK, including three Number Ones; legendary strength - sapping world tours etc). But Maiden stand for much more than that. A people’s band in every sense of the word, Maiden represent an entire community of music fans.
Coming to Best of the Beast , this is an Iron Maiden Best Of album. The songs have all been remastered and sound absolutely great. Disk one includes a new track called Virus that is a pretty good song. There is a Live version of Afraid To Shoot Strangers that Bayley does and he pulls it of quite well. The album came in a book format and is well illustrated. Many interesting things can be found in this compilation such as a tree that illustrates the history of the band.
It is an Album Somewhere up the Irons.....