A Matter of Life and Death (album)

The name of Iron Maidens 14th studio album A Matter of Life and Death. Especially the high content contributions from guitarist Adrian Smith was striking. The album was stylistically much reference to the albums of the eighties (the riffing did Thus in "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Bree" reminiscent of the times of "Stranger in a Strange Land" and it seemed stanza of "Lord of Light" from the   Somewhere in Time   album to come). Most of the choruses reminiscent of the material of "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" and its recent predecessors Brave New World and Dance of Death .

The album came influences from the sixties / 70 prog rock, which the band members grew up, clearly. The average length of the songs was well over 7 minutes and lyrically it was a dark album. Reactions from fans and media were therefore highly variable. Typically, the sound quality of the album, there is this time no excessivecompression as used in many rock - and metal albums nowadays exists.

"The Reincarnation of Benjamin Bree" was released as the first single on August 14th. In England this single urged not to a place in the British charts. Rules set out the maximum length of a single and two songs on the single, meant that it did not meet the rules. The song "Different World" as the second single released on picture disc LP and CD December 31, 2006 and on DVD and download December 30, 2006, entered the British charts at number 3 in the Netherlands was called the number from the charts and only in placed the rock charts.

During the tour to promote the album was played in its entirety by this band, with mixed reactions.

Numbers [ edit ]

 * 1) "Different World" (Music: Adrian Smith / Steve Harris, Text: Steve Harris) - 4:17
 * 2) "These Colours Do not Run" (Music: Smith / Harris Text: Bruce Dickinson ) - 6:52
 * 3) "Brighter than a Thousand Suns" (Music: Smith / Harris, Text: Harris / Dickinson) - 8:44
 * 4) "The Pilgrim" (Music: Janick Gers / Harris Text: Harris) - 5:07
 * 5) "The Longest Day" (Music: Smith / Harris Text: Dickinson) - 7:48
 * 6) "Out of the Shadows" (Music: Dickinson / Harris Text: Dickinson) - 5:36
 * 7) "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Bree" (Music: Dave Murray / Harris Text: Harris) - 7:21
 * 8) "For the Greater Good of God" (Music & Text: Harris) - 9:24
 * 9) "Lord of Light" (Music: Smith / Harris Text: Dickinson) - 7:23
 * 10) "The Legacy" (Music: Gers / Harris Text: Gers) - 9:20

[Single Edit ]

 * The Reincarnation of Benjamin Bree (August 14, 2006)
 * Different World (30 and 31 December 2006)

Band Members [ edit ]

 * Bruce Dickinson - vocals
 * Steve Harris - Bass player
 * Dave Murray - Guitarist
 * Adrian Smith - Guitarist
 * Janick Gers - Guitarist
 * Nicko McBrain - Drummer