This 1988 release, coming in at number 96 on the Best of the 80's list, is a concept album based on an old legend that if you are the seventh son of a seventh son, you will be born with special abilities. Of course coming from Maiden you know this isn't going to be an upbeat story and it's not. For a concept album it actually tells a pretty good story, a bit abstract, but the story is still there and it works.
Musically this is classic Maiden stuff mixing heavy metal with progressive rock to create a symphonic sound as backdrop for their doomed hero.
This is not something you would just play for fun. You have to seek this out for the experience of the album in full.
Following the Rhapsody rating method I give it 2 out of 5 stars for Not Bad.
I should point out that I think we need years on only those posts (or posts with comments) about something that happens outside the year it was written.
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