Music Review Fear of the Dark, Iron Maiden

    You might think that Iron Maiden's early work was an uninterrupted string of first rate heavy metal. I can't say what I think of most of their work from the nineties but be careful: this is by and large a bad album. There's only one song on it that I listen to that measures up to Iron Maiden's standards. I heard the first song before but it starts a theme of social commentary that reaches an all time low in Childhood's End. They've made a few songs with dodgy lyrics before but I was always ready to forgive them for it because of the quality of the rest of the album. That quality is lacking here. You're better off just buying the single.