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A Matter of Life and Death

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A Matter of Life and Death

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Play A Different World 4:17 2,596
2 Play These Colours Don't Run full track 6:52 72,862
3 Play Brighter Than a Thousand Suns full track 8:45 75,656
4 Play The Pilgrim full track 5:06 73,482
5 Play The Longest Day full track 7:48 68,763
6 Play Out of the Shadows full track 5:36 67,925
7 Play The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg full track 7:22 55,652
8 Play For the Greater Good of God full track 9:25 67,323
9 Play Lord of Light full track 7:23 59,834
10 Play The Legacy full track 9:24 57,247

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© EMI UK (2008) Released: 10 Jun 2008 10 tracks (71:58)
A Matter of Life and Death is the 14th studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It was released on 25 August 2006 in Italy and in Finland, 28 August worldwide, and 5 September 2006 in the United States, Canada and Japan. It is the first heavy metal album to debut at #4 in India, and made it to #2 in the Indian charts. It is also one of the few rock/metal albums to go platinum in India. It is the first album in Iron Maiden’s almost 30 year career to enter the U.S. Billboard charts in the top 10, and has seen significant chart success in many other countries.

While the album is not a concept album, war and religion are recurring themes in the lyrics throughout the album, as well as in the album’s artwork. The title “A Matter of Life and Death” is also linked with the war theme, as it titles a 1946 movie whose primary character is a WWII Royal Air Force pilot.

The band, still consisting of the same lineup as their previous two studio albums (making it the second most stable lineup; see Powerslave), started to write the songs near the end of 2005 after their hugely successful appearances in the U.S. and Europe. By the end of the year, the songs were done and they started rehearsing at Sarm West Studios in London.

At 72 minutes, A Matter of Life and Death is the band’s longest album to date (exceeding 1995’s The X Factor by approximately one minute) and its average song length (7:12) also makes it the longest Iron Maiden album by song average.
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