This album does have a few songs on it that listeners might find off-putting. Die With Your Boots On grates at your nerves a bit and I'm not even going to go into how dire track seven (may it's name never be spoken) is; it's unfortunate they included that one on the album since their are eight other songs. However it starts out well with Where Eagles dare, you immediately get the feeling you're listening to a good album (the song has some very early eighties sound effects but I don't mind) followed a couple of tracks later by Flight of Icarus. But it's the centre piece that really makes the album. Normally battle metal isn't renown for it's maturity, lyric content is often basic and sometimes cringe inspiring if someone else was listening to it (see Invaders from Number of the Beast or Where Eagles Dare.) However the song that was the penultimate track on Best of the Beast proves that people can do it right and make a truly incredible song. Put the volume up though because it seems to have been recorded more quietly than the other which is a shame because it would be absolutely amazing otherwise.
This is one of the band's more fantasy orientated albums and is very useful to listen to if you're writing something along that line.
