Dont waste your time always searching for those wasted years. And realize youre living in the golden years. As such, Iron Maiden was one of the pioneers of the new wave of British heavy metal that came into existence in the late 1970s before breaking onto the international scene in the early 1980s. Dont waste your time always searching for those wasted years. For those who are unfamiliar, it is an English band founded by the bassist Steve Harris in 1975. The almost-as-heady beer they produced in its name isn’t half bad, either. Iron Maiden is a name of note in rock music. Delivered with such runaway momentum it forgets to include an actual chorus or any mention of the titular Trooper the harmonised guitars, barked vocals and new drummer Nicko McBrain’s tumbling percussion ensure there’s not a second to spare in Maiden’s most immediately gripping work. ![]() Inspired by Lord Tennyson’s poem The Charge Of The Light Brigade, we take the perspective of a doomed Cavalryman during the Battle Of Balaclava in the Crimean War, barrelling towards his demise amidst the rain of musket fire and falling bodies. ![]() ‘You'll take my life but I'll take yours too / You'll fire your musket but I'll run you through / So when you're waiting for the next attack / You'd better stand there's no turning back!’ At a time when many in the mainstream media were fixated on their devilish imagery and the horror movie antics of Eddie The Head, The Trooper tapped into the true derring-do at the heart of Iron Maiden’s central players. Of course, we’re well aware there are stone-cold classics missing here. We’ve approached the task with a view to encapsulating that overarching history and paying tribute to the often-transformative live performances by the band’s current (definitive?) line-up: bassist/bandleader Steve Harris, vocalist Bruce Dickinson, guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers, and livewire drummer Nicko McBrain. Having dropped at least 10 5/5-worthy albums over the last four decades, the process of whittling their peerless catalogue of 165-odd songs down to a shortlist of just 20 has been even more painful than most. Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris.Although fluid in the early years of the band, the line-up for most of the band's history has consisted of Harris, lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson, drummer Nicko McBrain, and guitarists Dave Murray, Adrian Smith and Janick Gers. Purveyors of epic bombast, playful darkness and rollicking intrepidity, their 16 albums thus far have seen variations in style (moderate) and quality standards (sometimes lurching), but the promise of adventure and fist-pumping good times has always been delivered upon. Over 45 years since a rabble of London rockers first came together under the banner on Christmas Day 1975, the name Iron Maiden has become utterly synonymous – perhaps even more so than those of Metallica, Judas Priest or the mighty Black Sabbath – with heavy metal culture.
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