Book description
Iron Maiden are without one of heavy metal's most successful indie
bands. From their first album in 1980 they have led the way in the New
Wave of British Heavy Metal with Billboard pointing out they have
'always been an underground attraction'. Though other pioneering peers
like Metallica have been around on the scene just as long provided
their own innovations metal and advanced the genre to a mainstream
level, it was Iron Maiden who have been the fans' favourites. Their
crossover to chart success showed many bands how it could be done.
They were key in getting heavy metal to be accepted as a credible
genre. With an impressive catalogue of 15 studio albums spread over 20
years including Iron Maiden (1980), The Number of the Beast (1982),
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and The Final Frontier (2010), their
influence speaks for itself. For the first time ever, the writing and
recording of such iconic hits as 'The Number of the Beast', 'Flight of
Icarus', 'Two Minutes to Midnight', 'Wasted Years', 'Can I Play with
Madness' and 'Hallowed Be Thy Name' are explored in-depth. This book
takes you into the studio with a band who show no sign of slowing down
and whose influence can still be heard in a thousand metal bands today.
Nashville-based Jake Brown is the author of 30 books, including
Motorhead: In the Studio (co-written with Lemmy Kilmister), and was
recently nominated alongside Lemmy Kilmister for the 2010 Association
for Recorded Sound Collections Awards in the category of Excellence in
Historical Recorded Sound Research.
