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Remastered re-release of the seventh full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy Metal band.
"Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son" is the great Iron Maiden album, reconnecting with the band's Prog Rock roots. By this point, Maiden had earned the respect of Metalheads the world over with their steadfast adherence to unadulterated Metal and their grandiose aesthetic. They'd made concessions neither to Pop-Metal nor to Thrash, and their passionate fan base would never have tolerated a radical reinvention. But what do you do when your epic ambition itself has become a formula? You go even bigger and make a concept album, of course! The concept is based on the European folklore, which held that the "Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son" would be born with special powers that could be used for good or evil. As such, the lyrics are Maiden at their most gothic, obsessed with supernatural mysticism of all stripes; the story line concerns the title character, born with a gift for prophecy but mistrusted by his village, which ignores his warnings of apocalyptic doom and makes him a tormented Cassandra figure.
Musically, this is Maiden at their Proggiest, with abrupt, stop-on-a-dime transitions between riffs, tempos, time signatures, and song sections. Yet nearly every song has a memorable chorus. They've also switched from the guitar synths of "Somewhere In Time" to full-fledged keyboards, which are used here more to add atmosphere rather than taking center stage; this restores the crunch that was sometimes lacking in the shinier production of the previous album.
No less than four of this album's eight songs reached the British Top Ten in some version (concert standard "Can I Play with Madness", "The Evil That Men Do", "The Clairvoyant" and "Infinite Dreams"), while the album became the band's first U.K. chart-topper since "The Number Of The Beast".
The 1998 remastered re-edition contains a special enhanced CD-ROM multimedia section with videos, exclusive photo galleries, biographies, internet links, plus a deluxe 24-page colour booklet with full lyrics, Eddie art and photos.
Iron Maiden Holdings Ltd./Parlophone Records Ltd., A Warner Music Group Company, 1988/1998/2014 (7243 4 96864 0 3). Made in EU.
Tracklist:
1. Moonchild 05:41
2. Infinite Dreams 06:09
3. Can I Play With Madness 03:31
4. The Evil That Man Do 04:34
5. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son 09:54
6. The Prophecy 05:05
7. The Clairvoyant 04:27
8. Only The Good Die Young 07:13
Total playing time: 46:34 min.