I m speechless..its jus so many words.

Hahaha......wow....i hope this isnt maidens last record hahahah

Reading that post was almost as mind-numbing as listening to this album!

Seriously, I think that post lasted longer then the actual album it was written about haha

Wow... that is an encyclopedia of insults right there.

Holy shit.

I'm like, bookmarking this page for that post alone. I've never seen anything like it. It is poetic. It is a masterpiece.

Mount Everest of insults aside, this is extremely well written

Jesus Khrist.

Please, do not delete the comments

Written by Valentin B on 17.08.2010 at 19:05

Please, do not delete the comments

I don't think anyone was intending to.

I'm listening right now to the album, and i respect them for trying new stuff, but FFS that intro is annoying. imo a simple drum intro of 10-20 seconds or whatever would have sufficed.

Written by LordMaiden on 17.08.2010 at 16:12

Written by Daniell on 17.08.2010 at 15:23

Sure, but move on to something good, don't wade in mediocrity.

I think what's happening is most people who don't like it are simply becoming impatient with the intros. I understand that - but the intros, IMO, lead into spectacular songs. I don't mind if the meat has layers of plastic wrap around it, as long as the meat itself is of high quality. There are so many good things about the album, but it requires patience to appreciate it. The only major problem I have though, is the intro to The Talisman. It is a little too long.

Actually the intros are mostly OK, apart from the opener. However, they've seemed to throw a lot of their trademark stuff into the garbage bin elsewhere in the songs, and that's what kills it. At times the instrumentations cause the songs sound like The X Factor with Bruce on vocals. The change is not organic, they leaped instead of stepping which was a mistake IMO.

A Matter of Life & Death was good. The Final Frontier not so much. I don't really like any of the tracks, although Coming Home and The Talisman are quite cool, at least bits and pieces.

Haha never read anything like that!! masterpiece

I love that you registered yesterday, just to post that comment The first guy doesn't seem to active either - been a member since May but only rated one album (this one)...

A reflection:
The most popular modern metal bands (not counting AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin e.tc.) considering fanbase and sales (as far as i know) would probably be Metallica and Maiden.
Yes - Iron Maiden has released many fillers, or tracks that are weaker than your/most people's favourites. But atleast they have spread them out (more or less) over 15 albums. Me, and probably no fan of Iron Maiden talk about any album as pure bullshit - atleast not more than two out of 15...

I can't believe how a band like Metallica can be considered even near as good/big/popular as Maiden, just thinking about how few albums they have released - and how few good ones. Even the most hardcore Metallica fans I've talked to agree that they stopped being good just before or after The Black Album.

And to people that prefered the old Maiden albums - even if you don't really like the newer Maiden material - try to compare your favourite songs from the 2000's with the worst on the 80's albums - which ones are better? Still the old ones? Comparing the best songs from Metallicas four latest albums with the worst from their first four/five would probably not change anyones opinion that everything Metallica wrote in the 80's is far superior.

Very off-topic, I know, but I can't stop thinking of this when I see people complaining about Maiden, or about that they newer albums isn't that good. Try to be happy that they released more than four albums the last 20 years instead, and listen to your favourites (there must be some for every fan) on thoose albums instead

One of the most epic replys evahh. From an account built specially for this purpose.

Oh yeah.. and I don't care about Maiden. XD

Written by Risto on 17.08.2010 at 19:16

Written by LordMaiden on 17.08.2010 at 16:12

Written by Daniell on 17.08.2010 at 15:23

Sure, but move on to something good, don't wade in mediocrity.

I think what's happening is most people who don't like it are simply becoming impatient with the intros. I understand that - but the intros, IMO, lead into spectacular songs. I don't mind if the meat has layers of plastic wrap around it, as long as the meat itself is of high quality. There are so many good things about the album, but it requires patience to appreciate it. The only major problem I have though, is the intro to The Talisman. It is a little too long.

Actually the intros are mostly OK, apart from the opener. However, they've seemed to throw a lot of their trademark stuff into the garbage bin elsewhere in the songs, and that's what kills it. At times the instrumentations cause the songs sound like The X Factor with Bruce on vocals. The change is not organic, they leaped instead of stepping which was a mistake IMO.

I don't get what you are saying. What kind of organic change do you mean, the change in the songs or between albums? If you mean the album isn't organic, I would have to disagree.

Written by LordMaiden on 17.08.2010 at 20:11
What kind of organic change do you mean, the change in the songs or between albums? If you mean the album isn't organic, I would have to disagree.

Between albums. On Brave New World and AMOLAD they succeeded with developing their sound to a more progressive direction with songs like Ghost of the Navigator and Brighter than a Thousand Suns, but here they just lost the plot by leaning too much on Bruce.

Dont you feel exactly like you felt when u first listened to Metallica's St.Anger?

Written by Xtopher on 17.08.2010 at 21:22

Dont you feel exactly like you felt when u first listened to Metallica's St.Anger?

No, let's not exaggerate. TFF is not St Anger bad, I mean I wouldn't call it bad at all. Surely i wouldn't call it great either, it's decent, it's pretty good.

If you felt the same as when you listened to St Anger, you must think maiden's last album is really bad.

Written by Irritable Ted on 17.08.2010 at 21:18

All of those insults and he didn't say Nazi once. Now that has to be a record for online rants.

He must be aware of Godwin's law.

I like this album, but still Number Of The Beast is their best and will remain their best. imho btw.

Http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=294342

for those who think the MS review of TFF is negative, take a look at this review. Don't get offended though, take it as a joke. A really bad one. - don't take it seriously, i mean.

Yeah, AMOLAD really turned me off Iron Maiden pretty harshly, I was so unbelievably bored by that album. Then they released the first two songs off this album as a preview and they sounded just as boring...Perhaps I should take this review into consideration and give Maiden another chance...starting at track 4.

Written by Doc G. on 17.08.2010 at 22:20

Yeah, AMOLAD really turned me off Iron Maiden pretty harshly, I was so unbelievably bored by that album. Then they released the first two songs off this album as a preview and they sounded just as boring...Perhaps I should take this review into consideration and give Maiden another chance...starting at track 4.

start at track 3

He'll be just as bored by TFF as AMOLAD I am sure of that. No matter where he starts. The second half here is better then the first half but is going nowhere either.

I didn't include this in my review (due to its length), only the 6 for production hints at it - this album sounds like it was fucking played through a pane of glass 5 inches thick. Everything is muffled, and the guitars are almost non-existent.

@wvClifton: Next time you post this kind of stuff, at least give credit to the/a source. Sorry to undermine credibility but one of the sources. Fun to read, though.

I.

Aww... I thought we were in the presence of genius.