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Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
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The song named after the band (and by extension, the title track of their debut album).
This classic metal anthem is always the last song before an encore, and an excuse for Eddie
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Iron Maiden – Wasting Love
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“Wasting Love” was the album’s third single. The lyrics deal with the subject of loneliness brought on by casual sex outside the context of love.
[“Wasting Love”] is about those
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Iron Maiden – Invaders
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This song is a straightforward tale of Viking invasion. It has a fast pace and a driving beat to go with the evocative imagery of the lyrics.
“Invaders” is about an invasion of
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Iron Maiden – 2 Minutes to Midnight
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Released as the first single from their 1984 album Powerslave, Iron Maiden deliver another riff-heavy song. The subject of this rocker is the Doomsday Clock, an international
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Iron Maiden – Infinite Dreams
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This song is about someone who is tormented by paranormal dreams and nightmares. He seems to have some clairvoyant powers, but he he’s scared by what he sees in his visions, which
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Iron Maiden – Hallowed Be Thy Name
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This song is the somber reflections of a prisoner on the day his death sentence is to be carried out. The listener is given no context regarding the prisoner’s crime (could he be
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Iron Maiden – Powerslave
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The title track from “Powerslave”. It details the account of a power mad Pharaoh who is on his deathbed.
Bruce Dickinson always performs the song wearing a ritual mask, no
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Iron Maiden – Aces High
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A rocking ditty about the aerial battles over Great Britain that occurred during WWII.
The song’s lyrics are written from the viewpoint of a British RAF pilot fighting against
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Iron Maiden – Revelations
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This song has a double meaning; on one hand it references the Bible book with the same title and on the other hand it has to do with Aleister Crowley, an occultist and founder of
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Iron Maiden – Flash of the Blade
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The first of two sword fighting songs on this album. Swordplay is not a new topic for Iron Maiden.
Frontman Bruce Dickinson is an accomplished fencer, and obviously enjoys singing
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Iron Maiden – Total Eclipse
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[Verse 1] / Cold as steel, the darkness waits / Its hour will come / A cry of fear from our children, worshipping the sun / Mother Nature's black revenge on those who waste her
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Iron Maiden – The Duellists
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This song combines two Iron Maiden specialties: swordfighting and songs inspired by movies.
In this case, The Duellists was the first film by director Ridley Scott, who would
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Iron Maiden – Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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A musical version of the 1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Two verses from the poem are directly quoted in the song lyrics.
For 31 years, it was the longest Maiden song ever
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Iron Maiden – Paschendale
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This song recounts the horrifying World War I Passchendaele campaign, more formally known as The Third Battle of Ypres.
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Iron Maiden – Stranger in a Strange Land
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The second single released from Somewhere In Time. This song shares a title with a Robert Heinlein book, but isn’t based on it. This is interesting because the phrase “brave new
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Iron Maiden – Phantom of the Opera
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The Phantom of the Opera is a French novel written by Gaston Leroux. It has been adapted into an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical and multiple movies.
The song features an extended
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Iron Maiden – Gangland
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“Gangland” is about the fear and uncertainty of a life in a 1930s Al Capone-style gang warzone.
When the band released the “Run to the Hills” single, they had to decide between
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Iron Maiden – Prowler
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The first track on Iron Maiden’s debut album, “Prowler” was originally recorded at Spaceward Studios in Cambridge, UK in 1978 for their original EP The Soundhouse Tapes. A more
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Iron Maiden – Brave New World
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The title song of Iron Maiden’s twelfth album is inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
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Iron Maiden – Brave New World
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The title song of Iron Maiden’s twelfth album is inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
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Iron Maiden – For the Greater Good of God
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This song is about the question why men keep killing each other over religion. It doesn’t say religion is bad, but that it has indeed brought mankind a lot of wars and suffering
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Iron Maiden – The Prisoner
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This song was inspired by a British television show of the same name. In it, a government agent is held captive in a village that seems idyllic but is actually a prison. He is
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Iron Maiden – Dance of Death
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This song was inspired by the 1957 film The Seventh Seal, and more generally, the song takes inspiration from the “danse macabre” medieval concept.
The story starts with a
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Iron Maiden – Caught Somewhere in Time
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Somewhere In Time is a movie title, however Iron Maiden’s inspiration was not a sappy love story with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.
Instead, the inspiration was for more in
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Iron Maiden – Rainmaker
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This song was the second single from the Dance of Death album. It is about how we have the power to wash away bad things that have happened to us.
The title and lyrics, according
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Iron Maiden – Flight of Icarus
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The myth of Icarus, who flew out of the Labyrinth wearing wax wings but plunged to his death after flying too close to the Sun, is retold in a way that resembles teenage rebellion.
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Iron Maiden – Journeyman
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This song is Iron Maiden’s first-ever fully acoustic track. The song was originally recorded with electric instruments, however, as Bruce Dickinson has stated on the Death on the
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Iron Maiden – Heaven Can Wait
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This song may be inspired by a 1943 film of the same name. In the movie, Don Ameche plays a man who dies after a long and full life and attempts to enter hell, but is denied entry
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Iron Maiden – Wildest Dreams
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This song was the first of two singles from the album.
The lyrics remind us that life is short and that there’s no point moping around when we could be out enjoying it.
There’s
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Iron Maiden – Still Life
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This song is about someone who is obsessed with the spirits in a pool of water. He sees faces in the lake and has nightmares about them. He eventually decides to take his love with
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League of Legends (Ft. Ecca Vandal) – Rell, The Iron Maiden
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[Intro] / Yeah, rules, thorns, crowns, war / Meet your downfall / Rules, thorns, crowns, war / Meet your downfall / In lies your decay / [Verse 1] / Tear through the veil / Hand to
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Iron Maiden – The Prophecy
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This song is about the Seventh Son foreseeing a disaster coming to the village. Nobody believes him however, and when the disaster happens, everyone blames him.
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Iron Maiden – The Parchment
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[Instrumental Intro] / [Verse 1] / When the moon will rise again / Until we read the Parthian skin / Broken fears, warning days are here again / 'Fore we all to dust descend
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Iron Maiden – Killers
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The title track to Iron Maiden’s second album, this became a signature song for Paul Di'Anno, the band’s original singer.
The song describes a madman who stalks people in the
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Iron Maiden – Alexander the Great (356-323 BC)
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As the title – fully listed in the Somewhere in Time booklet as “Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.)” – states, this song is about Alexander the Great, who became king of ancient
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Iron Maiden – The Wicker Man
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The lead single of Brave New World, this was Iron Maiden’s first recording with Bruce Dickinson in 7 years. The title is from the 1973 British horror movie with the same name
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Iron Maiden – That Girl
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[Verse 1] / The words she said turned out why / Desperation fills her eyes / Hold her in your arms / Don't let go / [Verse 2] / When you taste defeat, when you lose again / Fight
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Iron Maiden – Remember Tomorrow
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Paul Di'Anno stated in an interview that the lyrics of this song were inspired by his grandfather.
That was about my grandfather. I lost him in 1980, when I was on tour. He was a
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Iron Maiden – Wrathchild
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Although not released as a single, this track is included on several “best of” and live compilations from Iron Maiden including Somewhere Back In Time, Live After Death, and The
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Iron Maiden – The Clansman
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This epic track puts an Iron Maiden spin on the Scottish struggle for independence from England, as popularized by Braveheart.
http://youtu.be/lEOOZDbMrgE
The live album/DVD Rock
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Flotsam and Jetsam – Iron Maiden
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Back in the time when the gods would tell / You what to do or you'll go to hell / The father cried and the angels fell / Constant reminder in the church's bell / The fear of ending
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