Very bad.... It made them call Bruce and Adrian back!!

Review Score: (2/10)
As the first chords of Futureal roar out of your speakers, you could get the impression that you were in for a good ride.

But things fall apart fast, already in the dreadful second track, The Angel and The Gambler. The song is nine minutes long, and five minutes of it features Blaze singing "Don't you think I'm a saviour....". Yes, that's it!

THis is the album when Maiden reached the bottom of the barrel, and were forced to hire Dickinson and Smith back to the folder.

Everything here sounds forced. Almost all the songs have "ooohh, oooh, ooohhh" parts. The chorus are endlessly repeated and, instead of we having good songs in the five-minutes frame, we have unecessary tour-of-boredom songs of six to seven minutes (very different from Hallowed Be Thy Name or Rime Of The Ancienet Mariner, where every second was great!!. The Clasnman, The Angel and The Gambler and Don't Look To The Eyes of a Stranger use the same technique of repeating a chorus by beggining it slowly and going into a crescendo. Amazing copy of themselves!!

As for the guitar solos, none of them are memorable, mainly that played by Janick Gers. As for Blaze vocals, they are even worse than in THE X-FACTOR, altough he proved that he was not to blame for it (the production was), in his solo work SILICON MESSIAH.

BUy this album (used) only if you're a Maiden completist.

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