I had downloaded some tracks from Iron Maiden’s Brave New World a long time ago (the CD was released in 2000). I never really paid all that much attention to them when I downloaded them, I just kinda glanced over them. Last Friday, my Winamp playlist decided to hit one of the songs (Ghost of the Navigator) when my brain wasn’t full of other crap and I actually listened to it. It was damned good. So I went back and listened to all of the other ones that I had downloaded. They were all new tracks (I have all of their old stuff) from the aformentioned Brave New World, so I decided to pick up that CD and their CD released in 2003 titled Dance of Death.

I’m really impressed with Brave New World but the jury is still out on Dance of Death. There are no surprises with New World, it’s just good old school metal from one of the pioneers in the field (BTW, Bruce Dickinson, the lead man from Iron Maiden in the 80’s is back). I’ll give Dance of Death some more air time when I’m tired of New World.