Thirty five years ago today, British heavy metal legends Iron Maiden released their third album The Number of Beast. Few albums can compete with its footprint. The quintessential Iron Maiden album, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Theatrical, bombastic and laced with Satanic menace, the title-track was a perfect demonstration of what vocalist Bruce Dickinson ...

The epic closing track evolved into one of heavy metal’s most celebrated live performances.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The pressure was on the young band as never before,” Louder Sound wrote in October 2023 about the band hunkering down in December ...

When it comes to heavy metal, fans have very different (and usually very strong) opinions about all the different metal sub-genres. Some bands are straight up heavy metal, others are hair metal. Some ...

Iron Maiden’s 1982 album The Number of the Beast is one of the most celebrated releases in metal history, and is regularly ranked among the genre’s defining LP’s. During a recent conversation with ...

Our month-long quest to find rock's spookiest song has reached a logical and epic final battle, with Iron Maiden facing off against Black Sabbath. It's a war of era-opening title tracks, as "The ...

Bruce Dickinson has spent a lifetime on the shortlist of the greatest singers in the history of heavy metal, having taken Paul Di’Anno’s place in Iron Maiden just in time to lend his operatic wail to ...

As a career-spanning documentary hits cinemas and the band eye two nights at Knebworth, they revisit their path from pubs to stadiums – but how did they get through their crisis-filled 1990s? When I ...