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Great live album
Following their phenomonal Powerslave album, Iron Maiden set out on their longest world tour to date - THE WORLD SLAVERY TOUR. This tour lasted nearly a year, and took them to every corner of the globe. Needless to say, the band felt that this would be the best time to release its first full-length live album, appropriately titled Live After Death (Many say Maiden Japan was the band's first live album, but it was an EP, not a full-length album.) This release actually takes live material from two concerts - one in Long Beach, California, and one from England's Hammersmith Odeon, a very popular British music venue. Read on for the pros and cons of this live album.

PROS:

First of all, the cover of this album just plain rocks. Who could ask for a better cover than Eddie rising from his grave? And, of course, the sound quality is very good. It's not as good as Rock In Rio, but it sounds A TON better than their two horrific nineties live albums. You'll hear a few songs here unavailable on other live Maiden albums (Flight Of Icarus, Aces High, Die With Your Boots On, etc.) Plus, this album is THE COMPLETE album! The original CD issue was missing some tracks since they wouldn't all fit into eighty minutes, but this reissue includes a bonus disc with the (approximately) twenty-five minutes of material missing from older versions. You even get to hear Dickinson doing vocals on Di'Anno songs (Phantom Of The Opera is the best version ever!) Put simply, this album features the band playing its best songs in its prime.

CONS:

I have only two complaints with this album. First and foremost, Dickinson doing the vocals on the Di'Anno songs is very hit or miss. It seems like for every one song Dickinson made better, he made one to two worse (he made Phantom Of The Opera better, but in exchange he made the already mediocre Running Free and Iron Maiden (the song) worse.) My second complaint is with the remastering. There were three live tracks from this era that were only available as B-Sides, and they never actually made it onto the album (or even onto the CD format.) They had plenty of room to fit these tracks onto the second disc, but they didn't.

This is by far Iron Maiden's best live album. If you're a casual fan and you only get one of the band's live albums, make it either this one or Rock In Rio. STEER CLEAR of A Real Live Dead One and Live At Donington; those albums are garbage.

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Iron Maiden in their PRIME!!!!!!!
I believe that this is by far the best album from Iron Maiden. Being a live album, Maiden is "caught in the act" at their best. Having attended this show myself at Long Beach Arena, I can tell you first hand that almost nothing is lost in this recording. UP THE IRONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!