Iron Maiden

I never gave Iron Maiden a chance before, maybe it was the cover art. It's not too bad

Not awful but I’m not keen on Metal so not best to inform you of the delights or not of this album. My “not awful” probably means a person into the type of metal that is closer to hard rock will like this

Top 3: Prowler, Phantom of the Opera, Transylvania Idk not my type of music

Thank you Iron Maiden! A reprise from 60s singer songwriters. Not sure if I've ever heard this specific album, but I have heard several others. Can't go wrong with these guys in my opinion. Just solid trad heavy metal. -------------------------------- Punky Prog Metal. This is a bit different to their later works I am more familiar with. You can detect a lot more of the punk energy [Example: Running Free] and there are lots of proggy influences too. Underneath it all is that iconic galloping iron maiden rhythm, with technical drumming and fantastic bass that's nice and high in the mix. I don't have any criticism at all. 5*

It's easy to see how they stood out from the punkrock bands of their time

I love a good riff

Metal is not my genre

This record rocks. Big fan of the punk influences. Those get lost on later records, but their songwriting becomes better there. That great songwriting is here already, but only on a couple of the songs. The rest is also good, a lot better then some of their contemporaries, but doesn't reach the highs of some of their later albums. Still awesome tho and definitely worth listening to if you like this band.

Kurwa nie posłuchał no ogl drugi najlepszy album na liście po brytolskiej stali

I haven't heard this album for a long time. When migrating from a full tower PC to a laptop I have to do a lot of culling. Consequently the oldest Iron Maiden album I have is Powerslave, meaning I'll have to review whatever YT serves up to me. Oh, I didn't get Sanctuary, nevermind, I know how it goes. I really like this album, it's like 'what if Black Sabbath morphed into something a bit prog later on'

3/5. Decent first album

Debut metal royalty!

It's not my favorite style of music

Way better than most rock of the era. This sounds really fun to perform and I'm sure it's a great time live, too! It's hard to convey a sense of speed in music since if you go too fast then it just sounds like texture and loops back around to being slow, but they really pull it off in this. Really surprised me.

Groundbreaking album for sure, Maiden with Dianno had a much more punk vibe than the later stuff which gives everything a little bit of an edge.

Hell yeah

Guitar wanking on a vaguely prog basis

Pleasantly surprised. Expecting AC/DC but received some real musicality.

Me at the album’s cover - :( Me at the album’s music - :) 3.5 Stars

This is one of the first and best heavy metal albums. Some of the songs could be described as a blueprint for later Metallica tracks. Back in my youth, I had several friends—most of them, in fact—who loved this kind of music, and for them, Iron Maiden was a huge deal. I remember denim jackets and vests covered in patches. For me, however, this music generally didn't resonate. Even now, 46 years later, it’s still not really my taste—though I have to admit that some of the songs have a distinctly punk-like sound. There are also some great guitar runs throughout. I really ought to give the record another proper listen.

The ballades were mid

A solid portents of what was to come.

Album 348. Iron Maiden (https://open.spotify.com/album/3DNeMApEMCo4IDXNMYnlFi?si=ZHqB8a-WRde54CL3t7qHFw) — Iron Maiden (1980) Totalshit album cover and design overall, but great music. I'm not a big fan of heavy metal, but this one is really good. Debut and it's better than The Number Of The Beast (https://t.me/falton1001/586) 4/5 Liked: — Prowler — Remember Tomorrow — Running Free — Phantom of the Opera — Strange World

What an underrated album! I'll always be a big fan of the raw debut who's basically a punk album, that will get hated by metalheads but has already everything with a touch of dirtiness that will be lost after.

Never been a massive fan of this chuggy, scratchy style of metal riffs. There are some cool passages in the last few songs strange world, Charlotte harlot and iron maiden, but album had already lost me by that time

I have never listened to this album nor have I ever really blistened to Iron Maiden properly. My uncle took me to watch one show when I was young, but it never stuck. This album was a fine listen. It did sound very 80's, but in a good way for once. I can see why Iron Maiden has grown popular if the start was like this.

I've always hated Iron Maiden. I saw this come up and I was really annoyed that I was going to have to listen to a whole album of their crap. The awful cover art did absolutely nothing to improve my mood about the album. "Prowler" started, and it wasn't actually bad at all. In fact I kind of enjoyed it. The lyrics are a little bit off but not to the point that I wasn't able to get into the music. I think my overall impression might be tainted by "Number Of The Beast" (which, annoyingly, I still have to look forward to from this list, but I have listened to in the past). The lyrics there I just found ridiculously cringeworthy, and I had falsely assumed that this album would be the same. Extremely reluctant 4. This is a good album. I still hate Iron Maiden.

I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Could pass on this Eddie character guy though, he doesn’t look chill. Likes: Prowler; Phantom of the Opera

That guitar almost made me cry. This debut kicks ass. Amazing hooks, amazing buildups. And just wonderful. Overall 82/100

Muy freson

Dejansko nism nikol nič od njih poslušala - sklepam, da sam poznam najbol znane komade (k mi pa ta trenutek dejansko ne padejo na pamet?! Grem pogledat...). "Remember Tomorrow" mi je kul. Ok, začetek od "Running Free" mi je super. Štekam, zakaj je bil debut single. "Phantom of the Opera" fakin šopa. (Mam pa v ozadju albuma dons a leaf blower, fuck me.) Ok, na splošno, I am kinda loving this. Bolj mi je všeč, kokr sm pričakovala. Naslovnica mi je tud kul, hude barve.

I know a good few Iron Maiden tunes, but never really gave any albums a listen or any looked in depth. This album is not as heavy as I thought it would be. It's very good and has a lot more musical nuance than I expected.

The sapling from which a mighty redwood of heavy metal grew.

Liked this a lot more than I thought I would.

8/10

Honestly ive never seriously listened to iron maiden but they exceeded my expectations. High 4

It's my first time listening to their debut album before Bruce Dickson and his powerful voice took over. The music is solid and shows the greatness that will come later, and Paul Di'Annon is fine but it's tough to be compared against Bruce's voice.

Pretty unpleasant imo. Did not finish. RYM: N Saved a song: N

Look, I don’t love heavy metal. But I can certainly appreciate the talent and craft in this album. Plus there’s a heavy dose of camp that makes it fun. I probably won’t listen to it again, but I’m happy I did.

I’m really suprised but i actually really liked this! The electric guitars were fucking incredible and I liked the guys voice too. It genuinely sounded like they had so much fun jamming and recording these songs. I especially liked the atmosphere on some of the tracks more so when they felt more so in a minor key. Overall this is was a super fun album and I really enjoyed listening to it, I feel like I would also like it even more if I’m in a better mood. 4.311/5

*Great mix of punk and prog- especially for its time. *Probably because of those influences, I like this better than most metal bands. Same for me with how Black Sabbath is influenced by the blues.

Tolerable

I don’t think I’ve heard this one. I never got into Iron Maiden but I didn’t try very hard. I’m definitely more of a fan of thrash and doom than new wave of british heavy metal, which is used to hate, but I’ve warmed up to it in the past few years. I went through some of their albums about 10 years ago to reassess, but I didn’t listen to this one. I was generally unmoved, and I haven’t dug into them since. So, I can appreciate the technicality of it all, and these are all decent songs, but they still don’t do much for me. I don’t dislike it but everything blends together and nothing stands out or remains memorable.

Depois de tantos anos sem escutar Iron Maiden por se tornar algo repetitivo e enjoativo, voltar a a escutar com esse primeiro álbum é um frescor tremendo. Um álbum incrível, com um dos mais subestimados cantores que Iron já teve, Paul Di Anno é foda pra caralho, e esse álbum é absolutamente incrível.

surprisingly good, normally this iron maiden opera metal isn't my cup of tea, but a few of songs from here really tingled me

wow! way better than i expected

I will be honest, I remember very little of what I heard off this album. It is the first album that was generated for me since my girlfriend broke up with me yesterday. And honestly I've been pretty distracted by that, and I'm gonna use this review as a vessel to talk about it. I honestly don't think I've ever been this devastated before, I've had worse things happen to me but I think I went through some pretty bad shock with that and it didn't really register with me. This lands in the unfortunate spot of being so brutal that I've cried both nights since it happened, and I feel sick and heavy with the weight of it all day, but not so brutal that I can just internalize it and act like it doesn't bother me. I just feel terrible, and I don't know how to get over it. She was my first girlfriend, my first kiss, even my first time holding hands with a girl (except one time when I was laying on a table, but that doesn't count). My first date was with her, she was there for me through so many of the hardest things in my life. And I understand that it's for the best, but I can't help feeling like I lost a part of me, like there's something unrecoverable that she took with her. I hope the depression passes soon though, im not enjoying it. Anyway I felt like the album was more influential in sound than The Number of the Beast (though now I can't remember why I thought that), but I think also the songwriting here isn't as sharp as it would be later. The riffs are less defined, the lyrics feel less distinct. It's nothing to scoff at though, it's perfectly serviceable.

Schon im Debüt ueberragende Musikalität...

Zeigt schon Teile von dem, was noch kommt, aber ist leider kein Vergleich zu den späteren Alben... 3-3.5/5

listened to half of this and wasn't for me.

Phenomenal album. Some of the albums I've come across that are considered incredibly influential, I've found to be quite poor, but this one manages to be both influential and an amazing listen; I loved every second of this. Phantom of the Opera was my fav song and first listen. Prowler and Strange World were my other highlights

I remember as a kid seeing the Iron Maiden album covers and wondering what kind of music they played. I knew it was “heavy” but it’s the early 80s late 70s so it’s still more like hard rock and not too heavy. Is it good? I think it tries to be good and interesting but some of the songs just weren’t really for me. I think Phantom of the Opera is a good song and shows the band at their full capability. I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It’s a decent early heavy metal album. I still wouldn’t listen to Iron Maiden but I’m glad I heard it.

My favorite band when I was 12 years old. Still holds up. A lot of people talking about Bruce vs Paul, but I can't imagine Bruce singing Prowler.

One of the gayest bands ever

Did not expect to like this album. I really liked Prowler. I don’t love Bruce’s voice, but I liked this album.

I used to have Phantom of the Opera on an Iron Maiden mix like thirty years ago. Cool to revisit it, considering I’d completely forgotten the song otherwise.

An evolution of rock that i wasn't too crazy about but it wore on me to the point that I could listen to a few songs before toning down the head banging

Best band ever. I like that this record is on the list as it is the debut, it’s super raw and dianno was great. 46 years after this record they are still be absolute best live band out there. Just saw them in sept 2026 and they are selling out stadiums in the us. Bigger than ever. One of the rare band album title threesome. Like Black Sabbath, bad company etc. I wish sanctuary was still available digitally. I need to go look at original physical to see if I have the version with that song

Loving Maiden but there are better, more iconic Albums than this one

Not bad but it didn't really touch the sides

I’m not super familiar with Iron Maiden, but compared to the albums I’ve heard, this one feels more raw and unpolished. It’s not as heavy as some of their other work, but that’s not a bad thing. There’s a nice punk edge to it, and the galloping basslines throughout the album are my favorite part. I really enjoyed those!

Titular album, not their best

decent but listen to number of the beast or powerslave both are better

Not my thing

Surprise surprise I've never listened to a full Iron Maiden album before. I knew from the jump that it wasn't for me but I found it to be more listenable than I thought it would be. I highly doubt I'll return to it but it was fine.

Surprising album. I liked how theatrical it was.

I mean, it's ok for what it is. Feels like they mastered the genre with subsequent albums, but realistically, it's all the same.

also erstes mettal album? geliexs cover ....c

Number of the Beast, The Trooper and Run for the Hills - That was my understanding of Iron Maiden to this point. Color me surprised when I tapped into their debut album: I had to double check if I got the right album playing. Not only was the vocal performance much more grounded than I was expecting, the album had some very tender moments (Remember Tomorrow and especially Transilvania into Strange World), which I found beautiful and moving. The album has a organic flow of tracks into each other, with a nice range of somber and more "in-your-face" moments. The more progressive parts of the tracks caught me a bit less: While I appreciate that the band was presenting some more extensive instrumental ideas, I found especially the power chord heavy riffs a bit too repetitive. Overall the album is a really strong, albeit a bit generic, debut. Definitely sparked my interest in the band. I feel a strong 3 out of 5 for this one.

It's a very good album, but I was never a fan.

Peak

This is Maiden stripped back: raw, dry, almost none of the atmosphere and polish that came later. I know Di'Anno isn't the band's real identity, and I get why. But his voice has a hard drive to it that suits these songs better than a bigger, cleaner one would. The rougher sound and the rougher singer belong together. I really liked it.

Second album proposé par le générateur. Comme indiqué précédemment, je trouve les 5 premiers albums studios d'Iron Maiden vraiment excellents, et je les écoute toujours avec beaucoup de plaisir. Certes la production de celui-ci est moins bonne que celle des suivants, mais l’album contient des morceaux vraiment bons (‘Phantom of the Opera’ et ‘Transylvania’ entre autres). Une révolution musicale en 1980 qui a inspiré bon nombre de groupes ! Structure des morceaux élaborée, duo de guitares (riffs et chorus +++) , basse très en avant, changements de rythme, tout était novateur dans cet album. Il mérite lui aussi la note maximale ! => 5/5

Early 80s guitar heavy, heavy metal. “Remember Tomorrow” and “Strange World” are the rock sensitivity moments with speed guitar in the middle. The chugging sound in “Running Free” should be on a running playlist (probably is on playlists)—the sound matches the lyrics. I like the drums on that one. “Phantom of the Opera” is an adrenaline fueled, fittingly metal operatic sound. “Iron Maiden” is fittingly gruesome. Not my normal music choice but I enjoyed it for the take me back to high school cassettes in the guys cars vibe.

lol, this album cover makes it really hard to take Iron Maiden seriously. Thankfully, I’m old enough to appreciate Iron Maiden in spite of this. I love how “Eddie” became their mascot, but this cover sucks. Solid record, and I love a lot of what Iron Maiden does here, but they get so much better after a few records. 7/10

(8.5)

3,8/5

I’m having difficulty expressing how stupid I think the cover art is. It’s like something a toddler would think is scary and a 12 year old would think is cool. That being said, this shit rips. Phantom of the Opera gave me 7 minute stank face.

4/5

I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. I forgot how dramatic, theatrical and energized their music is. The ballads also have an emotion that can be easy to overlook when you look at the childish cover art (sorry, but it is!). This was almost a 4.

Not usually my thing, but this album was quite fun. I gave it an extra listen because my son is going to see them play next month. I'm very supportive.

Instrumentation was great but vocals were lackluster. The original singer is not as strong as Bruce Dickinson.

nowhere near as horrible as i expected!!

Some fun riffs in there but kind of all sounds the same overall

some of it is alright, there's some good guitar lines and solid bass playing, decent vocal harmony, and a couple proggier tracks, but a lot of it is very boring oo loud noise, and the lead singer is. let's just say that the subsequent decades have increased the quality requirements for metal singers.

IRON MAIDEN - Iron Maiden (1980) - 4/1001 I'll admit it; heavy metal isn't my favourite genre. Rock was always a favourite, but heavy metal was always a pass - I could just never get into the loudness of it. Going into this album with an open mind was shocking - right off the bat with Prowler, you get to experience the power the guitars have and how much effort the lads put into their music (a power that maintains throughout the album) Does it hold up now? I mean...yes and no? Production's a bit iffy, but its still a classic album that I understand holds near and dear to many hearts. I just couldn't feel the love for this album that so many people have - it's objectively a beautiful time, though.

People still love this band. I recognize their talent, but it’s just not for me.

Thought this was good!

Was very pleasantly surprised by this. Very very low 4

2.75

Man this one brought me back to being a kid again. At 13 this was one of my favorite albums and what I thought was the peak of Maiden. Upon revisit it currently holds that title but it's been so long since I actually heard any of their albums that it probably wouldn't hold up with proper evaluation. It's pretty fucking amazing though. Rest in peace, Paul D'Anno!

Despite my disdain for the metal genre, this album has 3-4 tracks that grabbed my attention. The instrumentation blew me away.

I wasn’t expecting it, but I had a genuinely good time with this album - I’m on a rare second listen already. Favourite track: Remember Tomorrow

Really great musicianship all around here. It's hair metal without (most of) the hairiness. Not quite on the level of the best the early 80s have to offer, but a damn good showing. A high 4. The opener, Prowler, establishes a couple of great melodic phrases and punctuates them with strong guitar, bass, drums, the whole shebang. An instantly approachable, intense, high-energy sound that I definitely see myself returning to. And, with the slower, more introspective mood of Remember Tomorrow, we discover Iron Maiden is actually capable of performing several distinct moods. (The bar is on the floor.) Tempo changes are almost invariably excellent if they're placed tastefully, and the band certainly accomplishes that here. Reminiscent of Led Zeppelin's The Lemon Song in that regard. The faster guitar solo sections are exciting as heck. I'm not sure the song quite warrants such an extended, dramatic ending, but I bet it kicks ass live. We move onto the fast shuffle Running Free, a fairly simple chart that leaves plenty of room for solo hits. Again, another song that sounds born-and-bred for live performances. Cool high harmonies in the repeated chorus lyric, "I'm runnin' free, yeah yeah, ooh yeah [etc]". I don't remember hearing the next song performed in the Phantom of the Opera musical, which is a tragedy in its own right. Just incredible, heart-stopping energy. That rapid drumming, blurring the line between 3/4 and 6/8 time, leaves little to be desired. Excellent riffs, excellent solo and group vocals, several abrupt tempo changes. This may well be the best Iron Maiden song. Transylvania switches between 6/8 and fast 4/4 a couple times, as well as emphasising key changes over a couple of simple, effective riffs. The guitar solo halfway through is class. And a song transition! You don't see those every day, especially not in post-70s "mainstream" music. Another vaguely psychedelic chart akin to the slower part of Remember Tomorrow but (in my opinion) a much smoother and more enjoyable listen. It also features the best vocal on the album thus far. Charlotte the Harlot is exactly as goofy as you'd imagine a hair metal song with that title would be. Fun, simple, a little repetitive, definitely gets its message across (whatever that message consists in). Iron Maiden (Iron Maiden, Iron Maiden) is the best song called Iron Maiden from Iron Maiden Iron Maiden ever released. Plenty of fakeout semi-endings to keep you on your toes squeezed into just three and a half minutes, and the energy is unbeatable. 4/5 Key tracks: Prowler, Phantom of the Opera

I’m really trying my best to make sense of it, but I just can’t. Even my ears are protesting.

Better than expected. Quality on some of the tracks bad.

i liiiiiike it. probably not something i'd listen to casually but damn what a cool sound!

Not terrible but not for me.

I enjoyed it but I don't think it will be in my rotation. I felt surprised because I usually get tired of listening this heavy 80's stuff after a couple of songs, but this time I listened to the full album.

It was okay. I really don’t listen to a lot of Heavy Metal. I wasn’t a fan of D’Anno’s vocals. So, I can understand why the rest of the band replaced him with Bruce Dickerson.