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Release date: 29 March 1982
Style: New wave of British heavy metal

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Disc I
01. Invaders
02. Children Of The Damned
03. The Prisoner
04. 22 Acacia Avenue
05. The Number Of The Beast
06. Run To The Hills
07. Gangland
08. Total Eclipse [1998 remastered bonus]
09. Hallowed Be Thy Name

Disc II [1998 remastered release]
01. Total Eclipse
02. Remember Tomorrow [live]

Top 20 albums of 1982: 1
Top 200 albums of all time: 5

Reviews (2)
Lyrics (9)


Line-up
Bruce Dickinson - vocals
Dave Murray - guitar
Adrian Smith - guitar, backing vocals
Steve Harris - bass, backing vocals
Clive Burr - drums, percussion

Guest review by
HS

Rating:
10
At that time, Iron Maiden had already released two studio albums, Iron Maiden and Killers, which had made them known in the British metal scene. However, vocalist Paul Di Anno was fired from the group due to his uncontrolled alcoholic problems. Although this could have been proved a painful strike, Iron Maiden's golden era was about to start. Soon, vocalist Bruce Dickinson joined the group and in 1982 they released the historically important album The Number Of The Beast.

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published 18.09.2003 | Comments (20)

Guest review by
Arian Totalis

Rating:
9.5
The year is 1982, and metal is still a young and developing genre of music. The new wave of British heavy metal is beginning to take its toll on the American populace. We had already had a taste of Priest's British Steel and nine entire studio albums by Black Sabbath. Now it's Maiden's turn to hit the spotlight, and let me tell you, this release did it for them.

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published 18.02.2010 | Comments (23)

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Bad English - 22.02.2013 at 00:01  
Rating: 5
Written by Angelic Storm on 12.01.2011 at 07:18

Like all of Maiden's 80's albums with Bruce, I dont find this album overrated at all. The opening track "Invaders" is actually one of the most underrated songs in Maiden's whole catalogue, and gets the album off to a great start! "Total Eclipse" should have been on the album when it was originally released, so it was nice to see it be added to the album proper on the re-release. xD


IMO only one song here is overated, ok also Run to teh hills, I like still it but others are much much more..... in those days this album wasnt overated att all, nowdays well hard to say, its more IM like band.
Still good album, maybe best lyrivs in NWOBHM history , Invaders, 22 Arcacia Avenue, and HALLOWED By Thy name is best song from album... you can heer diference, Bruce and Pau, its damn powerful killer album. 1th album abd you can see Bruca and IM together has future , rest is history
Ellrohir - 22.02.2013 at 01:18  
  So good "powerful killer" albums with best NWOBHM lyrics ever are now rated "5" by you?
Marcel Hubregtse - 22.02.2013 at 01:19  
 
Written by Ellrohir on 22.02.2013 at 01:18

So good "powerful killer" albums are rated "5" by you?


typical K7 non-logic there for you
Ellrohir - 22.02.2013 at 01:23  
 
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 22.02.2013 at 01:19

Written by Ellrohir on 22.02.2013 at 01:18

So good "powerful killer" albums are rated "5" by you?


typical K7 non-logic there for you


well, yea...i kinda wonder why i wonder...
theFIST - 22.02.2013 at 16:39  
 
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 22.02.2013 at 01:19

Written by Ellrohir on 22.02.2013 at 01:18

So good "powerful killer" albums are rated "5" by you?


typical K7 non-logic there for you

maybe for him the site should be reprogrammed with the overcomplex dropdown menu connected to the rate button being replaced by a random number generator

hey, that might be an idea for the aprils fools joke this year
Dentura - 09.03.2013 at 04:29  
Rating: 10 Picking up an original CD pressing of this album and revisiting it again has reminded me how much I love this so much. I thought Brave New World was my favorite before, but I think this will take the number one spot when it comes to favorite Maiden albums. Absolutely classic in every sense of the word.
Jaeryd17‍ - 01.04.2013 at 13:20  
Rating: 7
Written by Ellrohir on 22.02.2013 at 01:18

So good "powerful killer" albums with best NWOBHM lyrics ever are now rated "5" by you?

And albums with one horrible song, a few bad songs, and a few okay songs--like No Prayer for the Dying--are rated 10. It's actually kinda hilarious when you think about it.
Lião - 29.04.2013 at 09:10  
Rating: 9 Not a 100 percent masterpiece, but damn closer.
syfllhylmz - 18.05.2013 at 13:50  
Rating: 10 Masterpiece

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