Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind(1983)

Track Listing:

1. Where Eagles Dare
2. Revelations
3. Flight Of Icarus
4. Die With Your Boots On
5. The Trooper
6. Still Life
7. Quest For Fire
8. Sun And Steel
9. To Tame A Land

Lineup:

• Bruce Dickinson
• Dave Murray
• Adrian Smith
• Steve Harris
• Nicko McBrain

Sick of being labeled as satanists by the conservative crowds, maiden deliberately recorded a message using the back masking technique just after their song "the trooper". it said" don't mess with things you don't understand". jokes aside, another classic album. the moods here were perfectly balanced with fast songs like" the trooper" which talks about war, to "still life" which is mid paced & quite depressive in musical sense.
this is possibly the greatest ever band line up in metal history. the same line up gave us 4 more classic albums. Nicko had previously played in the French jazz band 'trust' , fit like a glove behind handling the drums. "where eagles dare" was based on the Clint Eastwood movie, while "Quest for fire" was also based on a French movie on the same name. "to tame a land" was originally to be called "dune" based on 'frank herberts' futuristic novel, but they were denied permission to use the name.
the melodies were just awesome, the twins... one will think when will they ever run out of ideas. Adrian smith & dave murray were at their best & things were only going to be a lot better.

My rating 9.5/10

review by Pritham 'Metal farmer' D'Souza