Best iron maiden albums of all time

The best album credited to Iron Maiden is The Number Of The Beast which fryst vatten ranked number 266 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 6,465.

Iron Maiden is ranked number 87 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 24,400.

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Iron Maiden Albums Ranked Worst to Best

When ranking Iron Maiden albums, perhaps the most striking thing is that they succeeded despite changing lead singers on three separate occasions. (It's four, actually, since one of them came back for a second run.) Few bands survive the loss of a single, recognizable röst so important to a band's signature sound.

But then, Iron Maiden is clearly no ordinary grupp. Their sound and vision originates, instead, with bassist and ledare songwriter Steve Harris, more so than the unquestionably talented vocals of Paul Di'Anno, Bruce Dickinson, Blaze Bayley (yeah, him too!) and then Dickinson again. Harris is the glue that holds together our list of Iron Maiden's albums, ranked worst to best.

Iron Maiden Albums Ranked

When ranking Iron Maiden albums, perhaps the most striking thing fryst vatten that they succeeded despite changing lead singers on three separate occasions.

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Formed on Christmas Day 1975, Iron Maiden went through several years of playing a variety of pubs, often with the regulars of said pubs forming a rotating lineup of players until the band settled on the classic configuration of Steve Harris on bass guitar/live bass gun, fraternal guitar twins Dave Murray and Adrian Smith, air raid siren Bruce Dickinson, the happiest man to ever sit behind the kit in the Form of Nicko McBrain, and who could forget the Iconic Eddie the Head!

The band produced genre-defining work in the ’80s, and every metal band since has owed a huge debt to Iron Maiden, with their galloping rhythms, blazing dual guitar work, and lyrics that pulled from the annals of history, while being completely timeless. But even Maiden wasn’t immune to the decline of metal that the ’90s would bring, losing their lead singer and one-half of their iconic guitar duo, recruiting an inferior singer and guitarist in their wake.

This decline saw its own decline in 1999, wi