SOMEWHERE IN TIME

I wanted to review this for a long time and now I finally urged myself to do it. I still have many prog albums to go but now it's Iron Maiden time. Is Iron Maiden prog of any kind ? Personally I don't think so, but if there's an album that comes close it could well be this one. This was my absolute favourite hard rock album of the eighties. Really good and inventive compositions for a simple (?) hard rock band I thought back then. But if I see the number of reviews on this website for this band and the ratingaverages they score you really start to believe this is prog (related).

Anyway, now about this album. I'll start with the highlight which is the last track of the album: Alexander the Great. I'm in love with this song for over 20 years now and it will probably never go away. It must have something to do with the progressive elements you can find in it. The instrumental part is mindblowing and suits me 100%. Unfortunately none of the other tracks can keep up with this class act but still there are several real nice ones, like Stranger in a strange land, Heaven can wait and Sea of madness. And actually the others aren't bad at all either. So it's not really hard for me to come to the 4 star conclusion. Great effort by Iron Maiden.