Iron Maiden

"Is it blasphemy to call Iron Maiden the heavy metal Beatles? [...] Iron Maiden may be a heavy metal band, but “Run to the Hills” is straight-up pop. Led by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris, Iron Maiden created a marketing behemoth, perhaps rivaled only by Metallica."

"In your life you may choose desolation And the shadows you build with your hands If you turn to the light That is burning in the night Then the Journeyman's day has begun"

"I know what I want I'll say what I want And no one can take it away"

"We are cast out by our bloody fathers hand We are strangers in this lonely promised land We are shadows of the one unholy ghost In our nightmare world the only one we trust"

"El Dorado come and play El Dorado step this way Take a ticket for the ride El Dorado streets of gold See my ship is oversold You've got one last chance to try"

"Left the elders to their parley meant to satisfy our lust, Leaving Damocles still hanging over all their promised trust Walk away from freedoms offered by their jailers in their cage Step into the light startripping over mortals in their rage"

"There's an evil virus that's threatening mankind Not state of the art, a serious state of the mind The muggers, the backstabbers, the two faced elite A menace to society, a social disease"

"Besides one or two other acts, to date there’s still no other metal band that wields the same global popularity as Iron Maiden. The U.K. outfit has long dominated the metal genre with its signature galloping riffs, dueling guitars solos and anthemic choruses, all of which are now tropes found in metal music as a result of Iron Maiden’s massive influence."

"There was this chemistry between me and Adrian that went beyond the music."

"Coming in at No. 2 is Iron Maiden. Theatricality is a huge aspect of metal and no band does this with more success and ceaseless vigor than these Brits. The dueling guitars, Steve Harris’ signature bass gallop, Bruce Dickinson’s operatic delivery and Nicko Mcbrain’s inimitable swing have stood as the core of Maiden’s sound. They created the most iconic mascot in music, Eddie, elevating the music to a realm of pure escape and fantasy either through the artwork alone or when he comes to life onstage, which is truly the best way to take in Iron Maiden."

"Along with Judas Priest’s Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing, who worked a similar twin-lead attack, the duo of Murray and Smith was considered the top British metal guitar tandem of the Eighties. First pairing off for 1981’s blistering Killers, Murray and Smith quickly proved that they could play harmony leads and interlocking riffs as if linked by one brain, and do it with a speed and aggression that put most punk bands of the era to shame."

"Dave Murray’s and Adrian Smith’s dueling guitar harmonies, galloping riffs and epic guitar solos have influenced nearly every significant band to come out of the metal genre since the mid ‘80s. As the primary guitarists for Iron Maiden, Murray and Smith helped to popularize anthemic lead guitar playing, which has consequently become a staple in metal music for the last 40-plus years."

"By and large, Iron Maiden's long and lengthy career can be categorized into two separate eras: "punk Maiden" and "prog Maiden"."

"In , there’s one band that rules supreme, and that’s . Everyone from Gothenburg loves Iron Maiden for some reason, so naturally their version of death metal would be melodic and with a twin guitar attack."

"You take my life but I'll take yours too You fire your musket but I run you through So when you're waiting for the next attack You'd better stand there's no turning back."

"The bugle sounds and the charge begins But on this battlefield no one wins The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath As I plunge on into certain death."

"Running, scrambling, flying Rolling, turning, diving"

"Run, Live to fly, fly to live, do or die Won't you Run, live to fly, fly to live Aces high"

"The killer's breed or the Demon's seed, The glamour, the fortune, the pain, Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain, Don't you pray for my soul anymore."

"2 minutes to midnight, The hands that threaten doom. 2 minutes to midnight, To kill the unborn in the womb."

"Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave I don't wanna die, I'm a God, Why can't I live on? When the Life Giver dies, All around is laid waste, And in my last hour, I'm a Slave to the Power of Death."

"Too much time on my hands I got you on my mind Can't ease this pain, so easily When you can't find the words to say It's hard to make it through another day And it makes me want to cry And throw my hands up to the sky"

"So understand Don't waste your time Always searching for those wasted years Face up... make your stand And realize you're living in the golden years"

"Infinite dreams, I can't deny them Infinity is hard to comprehend I couldn't hear those screams Even in my wildest dream"

"It can't be all coincidence Too many things are evident You tell me you're an unbeliever Spiritualist? Well me I'm neither But wouldn't you like to know The truth Of what's out there to have the proof And find out just which side You're on Where would you end in Heaven or In hell?"

"There's got to be just more to it Than this Or tell me why do we exist I'd like to think that when I die I'd get a chance, another time And to return and live again Reincarnate, play the game Again and again and again"

"Can I play with Madness? The prophet stared at his crystal ball, Can I play with Madness? There's no vision there at all. Can I play with Madness? The prophet looked and he laughed at me! Can I play with Madness? He said you're blind, too blind to see!"

"Living on the razor's edge Balancing on the ledge You know, you know!"

"Circle of fire my baptism of joy And an end it seems The seventh lamb slain The book of life opens before me"

"And I will pray for you Some day I may return Don't you cry for me Beyond is where I learn"

"The evil that men do lives on and on!"

"There's a time to live but isn't it strange That as soon as you're born you're dying"

"I've lived in filth I've lived in sin And I still smell cleaner than the shit you're in"

"A million network slaves In an advertising new age I don't need a crystal ball to sell ya Your children have more brains Than your drug infested remains California dreaming as the Earth dies screaming"

"Bring your daughter, bring your daughter to the slaughter Let her go, let her go, let her go"

"Mother Russia Dance of the Csars Hold up your heads Remember who you are Can you release The anger the grief Can you be happy Now your people are free"

"The serpent is crawling inside of your ear He says you must vote for what you want to hear Don't matter what's wrong as long as you're alright So pull yourself stupid and rob yourself blind."

"Now we live, in a world of uncertainty Fear is the key - to what you want to be You don't get a say the majority gets its way You're outnumbered by the bastards till the day you die..."

"Maybe one day I'll be an honest man Up 'till now I'm doing the best I can Long roads, long days, of sunrise, to sunset Sunrise to sunset"

"Dream on brothers, while you can Dream on sisters, I hope you find the one All of our lives, covered up quickly By the tides of time"

"Sands are flowing and the lines Are in your hand In your eyes I see the hunger, and the Desperate cry that tears the night"

"Spend your days full of emptiness Spend your years full of loneliness Wasting love, in a desperate caress Rolling shadows of nights"

"You can make your own luck You create your destiny I believe you have the power if you want to ..........it's true"

"When the light begins to change I sometimes feel a little strange A little anxious when it's dark"

"Have you ever been alone at night Thought you heard footsteps behind And turned around and no one's there? And as you quicken up your pace You'll find it hard to look again Because you're sure that someone's there"

"Fear of the dark, fear of the dark I have constant fear that something's always near Fear of the dark, fear of the dark I have a phobia that someone's always there"

"I don't care for this world anymore I just want to live my own fantasy Fate has brought us to these shores What was meant to be is now happening"

"I've found that I like this living in danger Living on edge it feels, it makes me feel as one Who cares now what's right or wrong, it's reality"

"We don't need a code of morality I like all the mixed emotion and anger It brings out the animal, the power you can feel And feeling so high on this much adrenalin Excited but scary to believe what we've become"

"Saints and sinners Something within us To be lord of the flies"