Guitarist

Iron Maiden

The Studio Collection – Remastered

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How the machinery of a British metal revolution took shape An extensive series of remasters kicks off with the first four albums of Maiden’s formative early days, starting with their eponymous 1980 debut with Paul Di’Anno on vocal duties, which yields one classic, Phantom Of The Opera. Di’Anno also made his mark on Killers from 1981, which treated us to more French gothic horror in the form of the frenetic riff-fest Murders In The Rue Morgue. But it took Di’Anno’s replacemen­t with Bruce Dickinson for the band to scour away the last vestiges of melodic rock and reveal the galloping, satanic machinery beneath on 1982’s The Number Of The Beast and 1983’s Piece Of Mind, which yielded undying metal hymns such as Run To The Hills. Seminal stuff. [JD] Standout track: Phantom Of The Opera For fans of: Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Saxon

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