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I'm a lifelong fan and love their newer stuff (last 15 years)at least as much as their 80s and 90s stuff. I cannot wait for the new one!
If you haven't given Final Frontier and A Matter of Life and Death a few listen throughs you are really missing out on some amazingly complex and enjoyable hard rock.
Plus they are still amazing live.
A Matter of Life and Death (2006) is
the best they've ever done, imho. A masterpiece. Steve Harris outdid himself.
We saw their first performance of their Final Frontier tour in Dallas and they played only one song off of that album. But they played new stuff off of A Matter of Life and Death--The Reincarnation of B. Breeg, These Colours Don't Run, A Thousand Thousand Suns, they played No More Lies, Dance of Death, Paschendale. Superb performance. The setlist was wonderful.
No "ballads" from those guys. No Nothing Else Matters or Unforgiven. Just peddle to the metal.
I like a couple of stuff off The Final Frontier but it isn't what the previous 3 are--not to me. When the Wind Blows is great, as is The Man Who Would Be King.
Saw them do that England concert too, where they played their older stuff. Not as good as the one mentioned above.
Dickinson is perhaps the finest frontman in metal today. If they come back to Dallas I'm going.