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Fear Of The Dark by Iron Maiden

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Be Quick Or Be Dead 3:24 210,600
2 From Here To Eternity 3:38 120,625
3 Afraid To Shoot Strangers 6:57 155,813
4 Fear Is The Key 5:36 101,453
5 Childhood's End 4:41 99,708
6 Wasting Love 5:51 155,596
7 The Fugitive 4:54 93,083
8 Chains Of Misery 3:37 93,950
9 The Apparation 3:55 1,017
10 Judas Be My Guide 3:09 101,351
11 Weekend Warrior 5:40 89,494
12 Fear Of The Dark 7:31 370,450
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Iron Maiden (2011) Released: 5 Jul 2011 12 tracks (58:53)
Fear of the Dark is the ninth studio album released by British heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It topped the UK albums chart. Released on 11 May 1992, it was the final studio album to feature Bruce Dickinson as lead vocalist who left the band following the album’s support tour to pursue a solo career. He was succeeded by Blaze Bayley, formerly of Wolfsbane, for two studio albums until Dickinson returned to Iron Maiden for the 2000 release of Brave New World.

History:

The album cover of Fear of the Dark was the first Iron Maiden album cover not to be designed by artist Derek Riggs. In an interview with MTV, Bruce Dickinson said they had asked three different artists to design a cover, and they then picked the best one. Melvyn Grant’s illustration was chosen over the one Riggs submitted. Melvyn Grant has since drawn two more album covers for Iron Maiden, and the cover for their single “The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg” makes him the second most-used artist for Eddie after Riggs.

The album’s musical style showed some experimentation with “Be Quick or Be Dead”, a speed metal song released as the album’s first single, and “Wasting Love”, the group’s sole power ballad. The Gulf War track “Afraid to Shoot Strangers” was the band’s most political song since “2 Minutes to Midnight”. The album featured first time songwriting credits for Janick Gers and featured more keyboard work than the previous album.
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  • cucabeludo

    Best maiden album ever!

    yesterday afternoon

  • PeRMaFRoSTIE

    Not the best album but we got totally AMAZING songs like Afraid to Shoot Strangers, Judas Be My Guide and the title track

    9 days ago

  • IronPenguin

    Thing is, I like this album, but it's not typical Maiden. It feels like they were a bit lost for direction, trying out a few styles like Priest, AC/DC, Purple, and Zeppelin inspired song writing.

    13 days ago

  • sootom

    the best maiden album outside of the 80s

    last month

  • nacht_vogel

    well, a few fillers here but most of the songs are just amazing and it also has this awesome kinda dark atmosphere... i love this album a lot!

    March 2012

  • neoxx07

    better than no prayer for the dying but still an average album

    March 2012

  • Tobbessen

    come on. riffing in fear is the key is unbelievable powerful

    March 2012

  • MrFrycas

    @MaidenTek, lol.

    March 2012

  • MaidenTek

    100/10 ! THEIR BEST ALBUM FOREVER!

    March 2012

  • KeIemvor

    It certainly is their worst.

    February 2012

  • TheJudasMaster

    Aside from "The Apparation", this album is pretty good. Certainly not their best album, but at the same time it's certainly not their worst.

    February 2012

  • dxvolt

    only 3 good tracks in here and fear of the dark is not included. shittiest album only surpassed by the Blaze era ones. No Prayer for the dying's infinite better

    February 2012

  • dxvolt

    Still this is one of the top listened Maiden albums on last.fm. Probably because the title track is on virtually every compilation and live album. I actually rate a lot of the other tracks, this was a very irrelevant album when released in 1992. [fixed]

    February 2012

  • KeIemvor

    Only great songs are Be Quick or Be Dead, Afraid to Shoot Strangers, Wasting Love and Fear of the Dark. The rest is very meh.

    February 2012

  • IronPenguin

    Still this is one of the top listened Maiden albums on last.fm. Probably because the title track is on virtually every compilation and live album. I actually rate a lot of the other tracks, this was a very relevant album when released in 1992.

    January 2012

  • MrRafaelBCK

    I can attest that this is a shitty album to start your Iron Maiden collection from. Still, the title track and a few others are awesome.

    January 2012

  • wasp-man

    Track 1,2,3,5,7,12 are strong!

    December 2011

  • wasp-man

    7,5/10

    December 2011

  • maidenmetal1

    Not bad, nothing special at the same time (except for Fear Of The Dark and Afraid To Shoot Strangers of course). Still, one of their worst

    November 2011

  • fretless11

    So bad album, few really outstanding tracks but rest...meh... ;)

    November 2011
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