Feed The Beast (Limited Edition) - Bonded By Blood

Advantages: It's Amon Amarth, Two Classic Metal Tracks On This Disc
Disadvantages: Mostly Average Songs, Too Similar To Last Release

...are as deep and dark as you could want and the riff is beautifully recycled throughout the song. Interestingly, on their 2003 release Versus the World, Amon Amarth included the full demo release as part of a limited edition package, and when comparing the two versions of this song it is incredible to see how for the band have come, musically and vocally. 5. As Long As The Raven Flies - Another song that chugs along at a slow pace. The riff is not really memorable, the lyrics are actually pretty poor... there is not really a redeeming feature about the song. A great disappointment. "Men will fight and men will die Wars will be lost and won That's how it's been and still will be Long after I'm gone" 6. A Fury Divine - A very good song! Fast as anything, and with an interesting lyrical approach where the first word of a stanza completes... Read review

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Advantages: Great production, awe inspiring agressive/clean singing with TRUE feeling, modern, fresh
Disadvantages: Not quite as good as their stunning debut

...This new direction that the band have opened up on 'Revolver' has been followed with the album 'The Dead Eye', this one progresses the style further and further still, unfortunately that meant less of the thrashing, they have managed to retain their undeniable heaviness however! Onto the mindblowing artwork, and boy are you in for a treat with the Special Edition. The artwork was produced by Frode Sylthe (Friktion) and is very simplistic, yet striking. The use and mixture of red, white and black make the digipak really stand out. The imagery is very aggressive with (Not real) mutilated corpses, blood, Knuckledusters, maces and other aggresive weapons and scenes etc. This alternative is entirely different from the artwork provided to the standard edition with its silhouetted figure with the only visible feature of a set of nasty fangs... Read review

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Advantages: One great live album and almost all the B-sides from a 20-year career.
Disadvantages: Expensive, frustratingly repetitive, incomplete and out of date.

...***'s recording this.' The most disappointing aspect of Eddie's Archive is its lack of diversity, epitomised in its inclusion of both the 1982 Reading show and the 1982 Hammersmith show that are almost exactly the same. The B-sides collection is really this archive's saving grace, as the inclusion of live tracks with Blaze Bayley makes up for his lack of appearance on the archives, although there still seem to be enormous chunks of the band's history completely left out. The recent release of 'The Early Days' on DVD has hopefully got this Di'Anno nostalgia out of everybody's system, and I eagerly anticipate further instalments of 'The History of Iron Maiden' series. In 2002, Eddie's Archive was collectable and problematic, but fairly complete. Five years later it's out of date and fairly pointless, the original 'limited edition' print being... Read review

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