Fans squinted at the announcement of the title of the fifteenth Iron Maiden album. But this turned out to be a false alarm; the pioneers and survivors of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal are in full flight in 2010. Flight 666, that is, with singer and licensed pilot Bruce Dickinson at the controls. The first thing that strikes you about The Final Frontier is how excellent this voice is, and over
… the decades its cartoonish screams have been replaced with 'real vocals' with more layers and depth. The group, founded in 1975, seems to have sent their Satanic mascot Eddie the Head back to hell on The Final Frontier. Science Fiction, in which the distant journeys of lonely cosmonauts and space wars are discussed, forms the concept this time. It manifests itself in epic ballads and broadly spread prog-metal with a lot of screeching guitar playing by the three guitarists. In this way, Iron Maiden is growing in dignity and the last limit is far from being reached. (MR)more
